{"id":267003,"date":"2023-07-12T17:43:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T15:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=267003"},"modified":"2023-07-12T17:43:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T15:43:21","slug":"canada-road-to-ruin-paved-with-trudeaus-co2-intentions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=267003","title":{"rendered":"Canada Road to Ruin Paved with Trudeau\u2019s CO2\u00a0Intentions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Science Matters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Ron Clutz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bill Bewick explains in his National Post article\u00a0Federal climate policy makes us poorer.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Excerpts in italics wtih my bolds and added images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The clean fuel standard on top of an escalating carbon tax and onerous emissions
targets will make everything more expensive<\/mark><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canada is in an affordability crisis.<\/strong>\u00a0Despite the pain felt by Canadians every day at the till or the gas pump, the federal government\u2019s passion for world-leading carbon taxes and regulations is\u00a0driving up the cost of everything while making us collectively poorer.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tax advocates say it is a small % of GDP. But it is still $10 Billion extracted from Canadian households.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canada Day saw the Clean Fuel Standards (CFS) regulation come into effect<\/strong>. A week earlier they passed a \u201cSustainable Jobs Act\u201d that seeks to help transition workers away from highly productive jobs in oil, gas and related industries despite growing global demand for these energy sources.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Parliamentary Budget Officer projects that by 2030 the net\u00a0CFS cost will be over $1,100 per household<\/strong>\u00a0in Alberta and Saskatchewan. While it will add roughly\u00a017 cents on a litre of fuel (in addition to the carbon tax<\/strong>, of course) most of the costs will be on Canadian businesses, which means less jobs, less tax revenue and higher prices, making life more expensive with less ability to pay for it.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The fact is the world will need oil for the next 20-30 years at least.\u00a0Canada is the responsible, reliable supplier<\/strong>\u00a0many in the world would already prefer to get their energy from. With Canadian oilsands producers aggressively pursuing net zero operations by 2050, there is\u00a0no better place to get oil from.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The demand for\u00a0Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)<\/strong>\u00a0is booming globally. It should be vocally supported by anyone concerned with emissions since\u00a0Canadian exports off our west coast<\/strong>\u00a0would drive down the need for all the coal plants being built and planned in China and India. It also features an unprecedented level of Indigenous partnerships, offering an unparalleled\u00a0opportunity for the economic self-sufficiency of countless communities.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Why would we \u201ctransition\u201d these high-paying, unsubsidized jobs?
And transition them to what?<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, the\u00a0federal government<\/strong>\u00a0seems to know that our oil and gas sector will have to shrink despite growing world demand. This is because in addition to steadily rising carbon taxes and the new CFS, they\u2019ve\u00a0arbitrarily demanded a 42 per cent reduction in emissions for the oil and gas sector in seven short years.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Requiring this drastic reduction by 2030 will force hasty and frantic changes as well as\u00a0production cuts that will drive up energy prices<\/strong>\u00a0for everyone while decreasing jobs and government revenues. That means more debt and more tax burden for Canadians, while\u00a0hurting our economy and increasing our reliance on foreign oil.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An\u00a0escalating carbon tax<\/strong>\u00a0was supposed to let the economy decarbonize in an efficient way, but the federal government keeps piling on. This is\u00a0crushing Canada\u2019s competitiveness<\/strong>\u00a0generally, especially after our American neighbours decided to go along with most of the rest of the world and not implement a carbon tax at all.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact that every manufacturer, farmer, trucker, and even commercial business owner on this side of the border has to pay these taxes on their fuel, heat, and power means everything is more expensive and will keep going up.\u00a0Lower wages and job opportunities means we will be less and less able to afford it.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The government either says we must make these\u00a0sacrifices for the planet,<\/strong>\u00a0or that the\u00a0green jobs<\/strong>\u00a0they will transition to will be just as profitable and more sustainable. Their most recent example: the\u00a0Volkswagen battery plant<\/strong>. There will be 3,000 jobs created, but the government will subsidize the plant with an estimated $13 billion.\u00a0Does $4.3 million in taxpayer dollars per job sound sustainable to you?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for our sacrifices saving the planet,\u00a0carbon emissions are global.<\/strong>\u00a0As Asia grows its economy, emissions are steadily rising. Canada can certainly \u201cdo its part\u201d but other than massive LNG export to Asia, nothing we do with our declining 1.6 per cent share can meaningfully reduce overall global emissions.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There\u2019s one more major federal policy being pursued that might be the\u00a0most expensive of them all:<\/strong>\u00a0the demand that every province\u2019s\u00a0electrical grid get to net zero by 2035.<\/strong>\u00a0Canadian ratepayers spent billions to convert coal plants to gas and subsidize solar and wind projects. Now they are forcing us\u00a0to get off natural gas entirely \u2014 a fuel source even the EU considers green.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canadians care about reducing emissions<\/strong>\u00a0and it is happening. Canadians\u00a0also care about affordability.<\/strong>\u00a0We need to demand our governments find a balance between the two. If Canada recalibrates our carbon policies to be part of the global parade instead of driving off an economic cliff, we can have both.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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See Also\u00a0Canada Budget Officer Quashes Climate Alarm<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why would we \u201ctransition\u201d these high-paying, unsubsidized jobs?
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