Showing posts with label Green Con Job. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Green Con Job. Show all posts
Friday, March 02, 2012
Monday, January 30, 2012
A Must Read For McGoonty, Harper...
Stimulus-Backed ‘Green’ Bankruptcy of the Week: Ener1
Ontario approves 40 large green-energy projects - Moneyville.ca
...The new wind projects will get 13.5 cents a kilowatt hour for their power, while the solar operators will receive 44.3 cents a kilowatt hour.
...currently cost per kw/hr:
Energy Retailer 5-Year Fixed Price
Bullfrog Power
Retail Price+ 3 cents/kWh
Separate bill for 3 cents/kWh for "greening" your energy. Global Adjustment won't apply if you are still an RPP customer.
Canada Energy Wholesalers
5.5 cents/kWh
You pay their wholesale cost plus 0.8 cents/kWh with a price cap of 5.5 cents/kWh over the 5 years
Direct Energy
6.99 cents/kWh
They only seem to offer 3 year contracts
MyRate Energy
7.09 cents/kWh
Ontario approves 40 large green-energy projects - Moneyville.ca
...The new wind projects will get 13.5 cents a kilowatt hour for their power, while the solar operators will receive 44.3 cents a kilowatt hour.
...currently cost per kw/hr:
Energy Retailer 5-Year Fixed Price
Bullfrog Power
Retail Price+ 3 cents/kWh
Separate bill for 3 cents/kWh for "greening" your energy. Global Adjustment won't apply if you are still an RPP customer.
Canada Energy Wholesalers
5.5 cents/kWh
You pay their wholesale cost plus 0.8 cents/kWh with a price cap of 5.5 cents/kWh over the 5 years
Direct Energy
6.99 cents/kWh
They only seem to offer 3 year contracts
MyRate Energy
7.09 cents/kWh
Thursday, January 19, 2012
We Have Potential Customers...
...but Obama and his Green Buddies don't care about the jobs, dependency on Middle East oil supplies, etc.
Friday, January 13, 2012
A Prime Example Of The Fox Being Let Into The Chicken Coop
MOST WANTED
Never one to let a government slush fund go untapped, in 2009 the David Suzuki Foundation scored $129,200 over two years, “to develop a financing model to stimulate the green economy and energy retrofits by researching and pilot-testing Local Improvement Charges (LICs) in three to five Ontario municipalities.”
Thursday, January 12, 2012
I Support Your Right To Be Green...
...and my solution to the political mayhem is to have a box on the income tax form and property tax forms that allow you to tell the government to channel your tax $$$ to government green projects and another box that will deduct the costs of normal energy ueage from your paycheck.
...if you are unemployed and collecting government benefits, or living on the street will you be speaking out in favour or against the pipeline?
Big Environment gets a pass on pipeline tactics, as usual
Kelly McParland: Stephen Harper’s Conservatives have been getting pummeled for suggesting Big Environment might not always employ the most scrupulous of methods when attempting to achieve its goals
Kelly McParland: Stephen Harper’s Conservatives have been getting pummeled for suggesting Big Environment might not always employ the most scrupulous of methods when attempting to achieve its goals
This Is Awkward
Northern Gateway "interveners" signed up without their knowledge;
“I don’t know what you are talking about,” said the 53-year-old woman on Tuesday from her home.
“I have never heard of this pipeline and I did not apply to speak in Canada,” she said, in broken English.
That’s strange. On the federal government’s National Energy Board website, Gudic is one of a whopping 4,522 registrants who apparently applied online to make an oral application. Her name, mailing address, e-mail and phone number are included on the website.
Gudic’s daughter, Flavia, also has never heard of the pipeline, that, if approved, would ship raw Alberta bitumen to Kitimat, B.C., to be sent to Asia via supertankers.
“Maybe the environmental organizations we donate to signed us up,” offered Flavia, a 19-year-old art student.MayBE!
Posted by Kate at 12:19 AM Comments (14)
Northern Gateway "interveners" signed up without their knowledge;
“I don’t know what you are talking about,” said the 53-year-old woman on Tuesday from her home.
“I have never heard of this pipeline and I did not apply to speak in Canada,” she said, in broken English.
That’s strange. On the federal government’s National Energy Board website, Gudic is one of a whopping 4,522 registrants who apparently applied online to make an oral application. Her name, mailing address, e-mail and phone number are included on the website.
Gudic’s daughter, Flavia, also has never heard of the pipeline, that, if approved, would ship raw Alberta bitumen to Kitimat, B.C., to be sent to Asia via supertankers.
“Maybe the environmental organizations we donate to signed us up,” offered Flavia, a 19-year-old art student.MayBE!
Posted by Kate at 12:19 AM Comments (14)
Wednesday, January 04, 2012
It Started With The Gore/Suziki Alliance...
How foreign millionaires are bribing Canadian ‘greens’ to sabotage the Northern Gateway Pipeline hearings
By Kathy Shaidle on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012 No Comments
I first told you about this yesterday — OurDecision.ca is exposing the secret funding Canadian anti-oil sands activists are getting from big foreign donors like the Rockefeller Foundation and TIDES.
They’re exposing a different “green” group in each new radio ad — the first one is about the money behind the noble-sounding West Coast Environmental Law Foundation:
Paid by billionaires on the American west coast — and New York — to fight oil exports from Canada.
A hundred thousand dollars from America’s Rockefeller Brothers Fund to “prevent the development of a pipeline and tanker port” for our coast? Nearly $100,000 from Seattle’s Wilburforce Foundation to protect our country from oil tankers? Tell them to butt out!
To keep up with all the latest news about this stealth campaign to undermine Canadian democracy using these highly paid puppet “activists,” follow @OurDecision_ca on Twitter.
BREAKING: New ad campaign reveals foreign interests sabotaging Canada’s economy
By Kathy Shaidle on Monday, January 2nd, 2012 3 Comments
Just in via email:
OurDecision.ca documents puppetmasters behind anti-oilsands lobby
VANCOUVER – January 2, 2012 – Foreign special interests are paying millions of dollars to local front groups to sabotage Canada’s energy industry, according to an advertising campaign launched today.
“The federal government’s hearings into the Northern Gateway Pipeline begin next week,” says Kathryn Marshall, spokesman for EthicalOil.org. “Canadians will be shocked to learn that anti-oilsands lobby groups opposing the project have taken millions of dollars from foreign special interests.”
The ad campaign started this morning on more than a dozen radio stations across northern B.C., and will also appear in ten weekly newspapers over the month of January. Each ad in the series highlights a different Canadian front group being paid by a foreign special interest.
Factual documentation for the ads, as well as an audio clip of the first of five radio ads, can be heard at the website www.OurDecision.ca.
“Whether or not Canada decides to build this pipeline is a Canadian decision, based on Canadian interests — not the political interests of foreigners or their Canadian puppets,” said Marshall. “Let’s have a national discussion about this — but foreigner billionaires and their local lobbyists should butt out.” (KEEP READING...)
By Kathy Shaidle on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012 No Comments
I first told you about this yesterday — OurDecision.ca is exposing the secret funding Canadian anti-oil sands activists are getting from big foreign donors like the Rockefeller Foundation and TIDES.
They’re exposing a different “green” group in each new radio ad — the first one is about the money behind the noble-sounding West Coast Environmental Law Foundation:
Paid by billionaires on the American west coast — and New York — to fight oil exports from Canada.
A hundred thousand dollars from America’s Rockefeller Brothers Fund to “prevent the development of a pipeline and tanker port” for our coast? Nearly $100,000 from Seattle’s Wilburforce Foundation to protect our country from oil tankers? Tell them to butt out!
To keep up with all the latest news about this stealth campaign to undermine Canadian democracy using these highly paid puppet “activists,” follow @OurDecision_ca on Twitter.
BREAKING: New ad campaign reveals foreign interests sabotaging Canada’s economy
By Kathy Shaidle on Monday, January 2nd, 2012 3 Comments
Just in via email:
OurDecision.ca documents puppetmasters behind anti-oilsands lobby
VANCOUVER – January 2, 2012 – Foreign special interests are paying millions of dollars to local front groups to sabotage Canada’s energy industry, according to an advertising campaign launched today.
“The federal government’s hearings into the Northern Gateway Pipeline begin next week,” says Kathryn Marshall, spokesman for EthicalOil.org. “Canadians will be shocked to learn that anti-oilsands lobby groups opposing the project have taken millions of dollars from foreign special interests.”
The ad campaign started this morning on more than a dozen radio stations across northern B.C., and will also appear in ten weekly newspapers over the month of January. Each ad in the series highlights a different Canadian front group being paid by a foreign special interest.
Factual documentation for the ads, as well as an audio clip of the first of five radio ads, can be heard at the website www.OurDecision.ca.
“Whether or not Canada decides to build this pipeline is a Canadian decision, based on Canadian interests — not the political interests of foreigners or their Canadian puppets,” said Marshall. “Let’s have a national discussion about this — but foreigner billionaires and their local lobbyists should butt out.” (KEEP READING...)
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
McGoonty Failed To Replace A White CHRISTmas with Greenbut...
...but as usual he failed and it is going to show up on your VISA!Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Gore, Suzuki And ...
Dalton leads the Stupid Green Men
With apologies to Michael Moore, there’s only way to describe Premier Dalton McGuinty and the Liberals when it comes to their absurd claims about the job- creation potential of renewable energy.
27 Full story
With apologies to Michael Moore, there’s only way to describe Premier Dalton McGuinty and the Liberals when it comes to their absurd claims about the job- creation potential of renewable energy.
27 Full story
Saturday, September 03, 2011
Read The CBC Debunking Of Similar Claims By Hannah...
Naomi Klein, natives arrested at White House
WASHINGTON - A Canadian native protester and social activist Naomi Klein were among dozens arrested Friday outside the White House near the end of a two-week civil disobedience campaign aimed at pressuring U.S. President Barack Obama to block TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL pipeline. 2 September
...is it possible the natives in attendance are not getting any of $$$.
WASHINGTON - A Canadian native protester and social activist Naomi Klein were among dozens arrested Friday outside the White House near the end of a two-week civil disobedience campaign aimed at pressuring U.S. President Barack Obama to block TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL pipeline. 2 September
...is it possible the natives in attendance are not getting any of $$$.
Another Expert From Gore/Suzuki University Debunked...
Examining 5 oilsands claims by Daryl Hannah
02/09/2011 2:46:27 PM
CBC News
Actress and activist Darryl Hannah was arrested this week in Washington D.C during a protest against TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline. CBC News investigates some of the actress's claims about Canada's oilsands.
On Wednesday, Hannah appeared on CBC's Power & Politics to debate Alykhan Velshi, founder of Ethicaloil.org, a website devoted to defending Canada's oil industry.
Velshi said it wasn't fair to compare the first Keystone pipeline, which had a number of high-profile leaks, with Keystone XL. He said that was like using the bad engineering of the Ford Pinto (a car produced in the '70s) to say Fords shouldn't be built today. (Though Hannah quickly pointed out that the first pipeline was only a year old).
For the most part, Velshi stuck to his main argument - that the U.S. will continue to need oil and should be supplied from "friendly" countries like Canada, instead of "conflict regimes" like Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.
But Hannah made a number of claims about the oilsands, some of which CBC News investigated:
Claim 1.: "It's well-documented that the tar sands itself is one of the world's largest ecological atrocities and disasters."
The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) released a 414-page report last year entitled Environmental and Health Impacts of Canada's Oil Sands Industry. It was written by scientists and academics and targeted oil companies, the federal and provincial government and environmentalists.
While the report does not examine whether the oilsands is one of the worst ecological disasters, it does address the question of whether it is "the most environmentally destructive project on earth."
The report compares the oilsands to a number of other industries. In terms of toxic emissions, for example, it says the oilsands industry ranks fifth for mercury, sixth for cadmium, eighth for lead and eighth for four carcinogenic pollutants.
The industry would have to increase its emissions by five-fold to become the first ranked industrial emitter of air pollutants and toxic emissions, the RSC said, something "no foreseeable oilsands growth scenario" would lead to.
The academic group also found that no evidence had been demonstrated that the industry is a major polluter of surface waters, although groundwater is less certain.
They did note the substantial impact of open pit surface mining and a need for more rapid reclamation of disturbed areas. But they said "the claim by some critics of the oil sands industry that it is the most environmentally destructive project on earth is not supported by the evidence."
Claim 2.: "The contribution to the carbon in the atmosphere is unprecedented."
The report acknowledges reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the oil sands poses a challenge to Canada and that the industry is the country's fastest growing source.
But it said the oilsands makes up about five per cent of the country's total emissions, compared with 16 per cent for fossil fuel-fired power generation and 27 per cent for transportation, based on 2008 data.
In terms of global emissions, the oilsands contributes .08 per cent. the report found.
Claim 3: "I've been hearing about how many people have cancer that live downstream from the tar sands project."
Hannah is referring to the residents of Fort Chipewyan who live downstream from the oilsands. Concerns were first raised in 2006 by a local doctor about supposed elevated cancer rates in the town. In 2009, the Alberta Cancer Board said cancer rates were 30 per cent higher than expected.
But the RSC report noted that the doctor was later criticized by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta for making "a number of inaccurate and untruthful claims."
International experts who looked at the Alberta Cancer Board study also found that the increase in cancer incidence was not evidence that an environmental exposure was the cause.
"There is currently no credible evidence of environmental contaminant exposures from oilsands reaching Fort Chipewyan at levels expected to cause human cancer rates."
However, the Alberta government has said it will further study the issue.
Claim 4: "It has poisoned every one who's lived downstream from it."
The report found that "environmental contaminants at current levels of exposure are unlikely to cause major health impact for the general population." It added that projected emissions from expanded operations are not likely to change that expectation.
Claim 5. "TransCanada, who's building this pipeline has told people in [the U.S.] that they're going to be taking their land through eminent domain if they don't agree to the terms."
Hannah is referring to TransCanada's threat to go to court to expropriate parts of U.S. land from landowners who oppose the Keystone XL pipeline on their property.
While the company has said it's trying to work out agreements with the landowners, it has admitted it would go to court as a "last resort" to force a deal.
TransCanada spokesman Terry Cunha told The Associated Press in April that landowners who agree to easements with TransCanada will receive payment when they sign the agreement, and Cunha said landowners would keep the money even if the project isn't approved. Plus, the ranchers and farmers retain ownership of the land.
With files from The Associated Press
02/09/2011 2:46:27 PM
CBC News
Actress and activist Darryl Hannah was arrested this week in Washington D.C during a protest against TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline. CBC News investigates some of the actress's claims about Canada's oilsands.
On Wednesday, Hannah appeared on CBC's Power & Politics to debate Alykhan Velshi, founder of Ethicaloil.org, a website devoted to defending Canada's oil industry.
Velshi said it wasn't fair to compare the first Keystone pipeline, which had a number of high-profile leaks, with Keystone XL. He said that was like using the bad engineering of the Ford Pinto (a car produced in the '70s) to say Fords shouldn't be built today. (Though Hannah quickly pointed out that the first pipeline was only a year old).
For the most part, Velshi stuck to his main argument - that the U.S. will continue to need oil and should be supplied from "friendly" countries like Canada, instead of "conflict regimes" like Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.
But Hannah made a number of claims about the oilsands, some of which CBC News investigated:
Claim 1.: "It's well-documented that the tar sands itself is one of the world's largest ecological atrocities and disasters."
The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) released a 414-page report last year entitled Environmental and Health Impacts of Canada's Oil Sands Industry. It was written by scientists and academics and targeted oil companies, the federal and provincial government and environmentalists.
While the report does not examine whether the oilsands is one of the worst ecological disasters, it does address the question of whether it is "the most environmentally destructive project on earth."
The report compares the oilsands to a number of other industries. In terms of toxic emissions, for example, it says the oilsands industry ranks fifth for mercury, sixth for cadmium, eighth for lead and eighth for four carcinogenic pollutants.
The industry would have to increase its emissions by five-fold to become the first ranked industrial emitter of air pollutants and toxic emissions, the RSC said, something "no foreseeable oilsands growth scenario" would lead to.
The academic group also found that no evidence had been demonstrated that the industry is a major polluter of surface waters, although groundwater is less certain.
They did note the substantial impact of open pit surface mining and a need for more rapid reclamation of disturbed areas. But they said "the claim by some critics of the oil sands industry that it is the most environmentally destructive project on earth is not supported by the evidence."
Claim 2.: "The contribution to the carbon in the atmosphere is unprecedented."
The report acknowledges reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the oil sands poses a challenge to Canada and that the industry is the country's fastest growing source.
But it said the oilsands makes up about five per cent of the country's total emissions, compared with 16 per cent for fossil fuel-fired power generation and 27 per cent for transportation, based on 2008 data.
In terms of global emissions, the oilsands contributes .08 per cent. the report found.
Claim 3: "I've been hearing about how many people have cancer that live downstream from the tar sands project."
Hannah is referring to the residents of Fort Chipewyan who live downstream from the oilsands. Concerns were first raised in 2006 by a local doctor about supposed elevated cancer rates in the town. In 2009, the Alberta Cancer Board said cancer rates were 30 per cent higher than expected.
But the RSC report noted that the doctor was later criticized by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta for making "a number of inaccurate and untruthful claims."
International experts who looked at the Alberta Cancer Board study also found that the increase in cancer incidence was not evidence that an environmental exposure was the cause.
"There is currently no credible evidence of environmental contaminant exposures from oilsands reaching Fort Chipewyan at levels expected to cause human cancer rates."
However, the Alberta government has said it will further study the issue.
Claim 4: "It has poisoned every one who's lived downstream from it."
The report found that "environmental contaminants at current levels of exposure are unlikely to cause major health impact for the general population." It added that projected emissions from expanded operations are not likely to change that expectation.
Claim 5. "TransCanada, who's building this pipeline has told people in [the U.S.] that they're going to be taking their land through eminent domain if they don't agree to the terms."
Hannah is referring to TransCanada's threat to go to court to expropriate parts of U.S. land from landowners who oppose the Keystone XL pipeline on their property.
While the company has said it's trying to work out agreements with the landowners, it has admitted it would go to court as a "last resort" to force a deal.
TransCanada spokesman Terry Cunha told The Associated Press in April that landowners who agree to easements with TransCanada will receive payment when they sign the agreement, and Cunha said landowners would keep the money even if the project isn't approved. Plus, the ranchers and farmers retain ownership of the land.
With files from The Associated Press
Thursday, June 23, 2011
And Suzuki Is Keeping Hime Company...
Earth to Al Gore!
Goldstein: Rolling Stone rant out of this world. Judging from his latest 7,000-word rant in Rolling Stone titled, "Climate of Denial: Can science and the truth withstand the merchants of poison?" Al Gore lives on another planet.
MORE...
Jack Layton's Next Star Candidate
He better hurry up though, or the David Suzuki Foundation is sure to hire her.
Posted by Robert at 4:21 PM
Comments (43)
Goldstein: Rolling Stone rant out of this world. Judging from his latest 7,000-word rant in Rolling Stone titled, "Climate of Denial: Can science and the truth withstand the merchants of poison?" Al Gore lives on another planet.
MORE...
Jack Layton's Next Star Candidate
He better hurry up though, or the David Suzuki Foundation is sure to hire her.
Posted by Robert at 4:21 PM
Comments (43)
Thursday, April 14, 2011
The Greening By Red Mayor...
The latest leftover bull from David Miller
By SUE-ANN LEVY, City Hall Columnist
Let’s call it the latest bit of bull left over from the Days of David Miller.
Bullfrog Power facts
Reviewing the green wave
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Green Party Sets Double Standard...
Personally I personally Would be more likely to watch this group than ...
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Hmm...Odds 'N Sods
Editor’s Picks: Bob Dylan should write a song about dead birds
Kelly McParland wonders that since we now know that the U.S. Department of Agriculture deliberately killed more birds than died in the oil sands mishap that hit Syncrude, the environmentalists will soon be marching on cattle ranchers in South Dakota. Right?
Multi-culturalism is a Canadian value, Barbara Kay readily grants. But as the kirpan kerfuffle illustrates, it’s not a Quebec one.
Know the Bob Dylan song where he calls for an innocent black man to be released from prison on bogus charges? The one about Rubin Carter? It uses the N-word. Matt Gurney asks whether or not the CBSC will ban it … but doubts it.
Lorne Gunter was unhappy enough when Canada was just a nanny state. Now it seems we’re a wimpy one, too.
You Choose...GOD or Dylan!
Kelly McParland wonders that since we now know that the U.S. Department of Agriculture deliberately killed more birds than died in the oil sands mishap that hit Syncrude, the environmentalists will soon be marching on cattle ranchers in South Dakota. Right?
Multi-culturalism is a Canadian value, Barbara Kay readily grants. But as the kirpan kerfuffle illustrates, it’s not a Quebec one.
Know the Bob Dylan song where he calls for an innocent black man to be released from prison on bogus charges? The one about Rubin Carter? It uses the N-word. Matt Gurney asks whether or not the CBSC will ban it … but doubts it.
Lorne Gunter was unhappy enough when Canada was just a nanny state. Now it seems we’re a wimpy one, too.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
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- Unhypentated Canadian
- I lean to the right but I still have a heart and if I have a mission it is to respond to attacks on people not available to protect themselves and to point out the hypocrisy of the left at every opportunity.MY MAJOR GOAL IS HIGHLIGHT THE HYPOCRISY AND STUPIDITY OF THE LEFTISTS ON TORONTO CITY COUNCIL. Last word: In the final analysis this blog is a relief valve for my rants/raves.