We Have Potential Customers...

...but Obama and his Green Buddies don't care about the jobs, dependency on Middle East oil supplies, etc.

I Support Your Right To Be Green...

Goldstein: Green train wreck

...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.

TransCanada details Keystone XL’s job-creating potential

...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

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!
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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...)

Facing Reality...

The Verbal Poop Uttered by The Disciples Of Gore/Suzuki...

...pose a health risk and these disciples should be mandated to to add their poop to the municipal waste system.

Halifax poop controversy stirs emotions of politicians and Ellen Page


A debate about poop in Halifax has spewed a controversy that some say has pitted emotion against science and has even drawn Hollywood star Ellen Page into the fray.

Anoth Green Saviour Shows Their Prioritis...

November 25, 2010

Y2Kyoto: Scene From A David Suzuki Book Signing

On Nov. 20 Jenn Carson went to see David Suzuki speak in Moncton;

I was hoping to ask him during the question period that normally follows these types of talks for advice on how to help me promote environmentalism to my group of largely apathetic students at Hampton High School, where I am the librarian.

Unfortunately, there was no question period. Directly following Dr. Suzuki's speech, where he emphatically urged the audience to form strong interpersonal connections with their neighbours, family and local ecology, there was a book signing. I waited until the line was gone before I approached. I did not purchase any books, since I either have them at home, or have read them through our public library service. There was only one other man at the table, talking about a Prius, and he stopped and said he should go since I was waiting. Dr. Suzuki said it was alright since there was "no one there."

I assumed since he was 75, perhaps his eyesight was poor and he did not see me. When the man left, I approached Dr. Suzuki.
He looked up and said, "book?" I said I didn't have one but I wanted to ask him a question. He said, "I don't have time for that," and waved me away like a king dismissing a commoner.

There was absolutely no one else around the table except the security guards.

Then he shouted out, "Books! Books!" and continued waving me out of the way. There was no sign indicating no questions were allowed.

Only minutes before he had been espousing the value of slowing down and making time for each other and he didn't even have the decency to say, "I'm sorry, I'm tired . . . or I'm not allowed to answer questions . . ."

Instead here I was, an educator and great promoter of his books, looking for help with the generation he claimed was most important, but because I was not spending money (other than the $45 I spent to hear him lecture), I was waved off.

I used to be proud to call Dr. Suzuki one of my heroes, and now I can see that he is a hypocrite.

I am in no way turned off the environmental causes I have always believed in, simply disappointed to have to tell my students, once again, that celebrity and integrity seem to be mutually exclusive.

Jenn Carson,
Hampton

Welcome to the club, Jenn!

ht Robert in Calgary

Posted by Kate

Premier Dad Get's Out The Vaseline...

New Version Of "I Am Selling Some Land In Florida..."

Study finds most 'green product' claims misleading

Nearly all "green" consumer products make one false, misleading or unproven environmental claim to attract eco-conscious shoppers, a new study has found.

Hail Gore And Suzuki...

Study finds most 'green product' claims misleading

Nearly all "green" consumer products make one false, misleading or unproven environmental claim to attract eco-conscious shoppers, a new study has found.

REDUCING ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT THE RIGHT THING TO DO

GM Abandons Windsor BUT...

FP’s Peter Foster: The Voltswagen — The people’s car the people pay for

Peter Foster  July 28, 2010 – 8:01 pm

 

Like the Apollo program, the Volt is massively expensive, and pointless

Ontario taxpayers should be grateful that the Chevy Volt is not due to appear in the province until next year. Put together a $10,000-per-car provincial subsidy with ultra high-cost solar electricity foisted on the public via feed-in tariffs and you have a level of economic insanity it would be hard to match. Indeed, perhaps the Volt should be renamed “The McGuinty” for the Canadian market. It would take the pressure off the memory of poor Edsel Ford, who gave his name to a tail-finned lemon.
GM announced this week that the Volt, as expected, would cost US$41,000, more than a loaded Cadillac. It will still lose money. GM’s marketing chief, Joel Ewanick, when revealing the price, said the Volt was “starting the world on a different path.” Would that be The Road to Serfdom? But let’s not go over the top. The Volt will collapse under the weight of its own pointless non-viability. GM’s future lies with new conventional fuel-powered models such as the Buick Regal, which by all accounts is a terrific car. The Volt is pure politics.
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Another Example Of Municipal Politicians Out Of Tough...

Waste diversion makes for a greener, cleaner Ontario

By Peter Hume

Mon Jul 19 2010

So-called "eco fees" are a small price to pay for a less toxic environment. (73)

Liberals send eco-fee scheme back to the drawing board

Bowing to growing pressure from consumers and Canadian Tire over its eco-fee scheme, the Ontario government will send the plan back to the drawing board

LUCAS OLENIUK/TORONTO STAR

 

By Rob Ferguson

Mon Jul 19 2010

Leading retailer scraps controversial eco fee program and increases pressure to revamp it.

Related:

• Few retailers charge eco fee

• Transparency urged

• Numerous complaints

• Editorial: Sneaky 'eco fee'

 

Welcome To McGoontyland...

Green Shit...

Killing the green wave

By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN, QMI Agency

Most people understand what an independent public inquiry is.

Ontario’s eco fee hoax: Blizzard

By CHRISTINA BLIZZARD, Toronto Sun

Don’t think of the eco fee as another — possibly illegal — tax.

5-cent bag now costs 6 cents

This weekend I had my eyes opened to just how far the government and local retailers will go to squeeze every last penny...

Sorry Christie But Being "Conscious" Of The Facts Don't Make Them Pallitable...

...if this program is so beneficial why didn't we hear more from the government and McGinty? 

Christie Blatchford

From the shock of 'eco fees' comes eco consciousness

Blasted by some as a tax grab (wrong), it’s actually a pretty smart program 

Christie Blatchford

From Saturday's Globe and Mail Published on Friday, Jul. 09, 2010 9:59PM EDT Last updated on Friday, Jul. 09, 2010 10:27PM EDT

 

In a couple of ways, my environmental consciousness has been raised several notches of late, entirely by accident.
In the first and happiest instance, upon the advice of one of the new cadre of experts (fireplace guy, architect, contractor, with more to come) I have assembled for my forthcoming stint in renovation hell, I had an energy auditor inspect my aged house.
The idea was to discover what would improve the energy efficiency of the skinny up-and-down Victorian dame, and thus perhaps qualify me for government rebates.
The inspector said that probably the single best improvement I could make would be to properly insulate the attic, which was leaking heat and/or drawing in cold air at entirely the wrong times of year. It was a daunting prospect (I had more visible improvements in mind), and while I nodded politely throughout, I confess I had no intention of following through.
However, I was planning to install a simple bath on the third floor, and in the process of starting that, the contractor had to tear down the plaster-and-lathe walls, and low, acoustic-tiled ceiling to replace with waterproof board.
Joe the Magnificent (this man works harder, and more neatly, than anyone I have ever known) called me upstairs early that first day, and though at first I could hardly see for the black dust, let alone take in what I was seeing, what was revealed was an absolutely soaring, 16-foot cathedral ceiling.
Hidden in my house, on the formerly stuffy and long-neglected third floor, was a veritable Muskoka-style cottage: I have an aerie in the making.
Suddenly, the inspector’s advice seems brilliant, and once the space is insulated to the max, Joe et al will construct the aerie, and I will relocate my quarters to that floor once the gut of the ground floor is under way.
This is actually quite useful, as it will entirely ensure I remain deeply in debt, which is my natural state.
Plus, once they start on the kitchen, my godson John, who now lives in the basement where other young relatives have camped out before him, and I will be tragically forced to eat out virtually every meal, which we do as a matter of course anyway, but sometimes feel badly about.
Despite the bliss engendered by the discovery of the aerie, I managed to spend much of the week in a state of righteous indignation, as word spread about “eco fees” variously described in the news as a new hidden tax or tax grab and engineered by a mysterious “government body” or “government agency” called Stewardship Ontario.
New tax! Shock and horror! Damn government! Fight the power!
I went on the Stewardship website, but found my eyes glazing over, the corporate-speak therein utterly defeating me. So I phoned and spoke to an actual person, one Amanda Harper Sevonty, who is the marketing director.
And guess what?
Stewardship Ontario is not a government agency of any description, though it was created by provincial legislation (the Waste Diversion Act, 2002).
Rather, it’s a non-profit Industry Funding Organization, or IFO, one of four established by that legislation to set up and operate waste diversion programs in the province.
As the name suggests, the money for Stewardship Ontario comes from the industry players (that is, the stewards) who manufacture the products which heretofore have ended up in landfill sites. Not a penny of taxpayer dough goes to run Stewardship Ontario; not a penny of eco fees goes back to government to squander.
The reason for the hullabaloo is that as of July 1, the very day the wretched and much-disliked harmonized sales tax also took effect in Ontario, 22 new material categories, with thousands of new products, were added to the list governed by waste diversion regulations.
These are household products – such as paints, antifreeze, corrosives, irritants, fluorescent bulbs, petroleum derivatives, windshield washers, camping fuels, etc., etc. – which require special handling to be made environmentally safe or friendly.
For instance, Stewardship Ontario charges manufacturers 13 cents for every kilogram of corrosive materials they put into the marketplace, or 76 cents for every kilo of non-rechargeable batteries found in TV remotes.
The miracle to my simple mind is how many of these hazardous-to-the-environment products can be reprocessed and reused or at the least neutralized and rendered benign for a landfill.
Though the first manufacturer charges on nine categories of materials were introduced two years ago to little fanfare, it was this second phase – incorporating as it does so many more products that people use every day – which caused the outcry. As manufacturers passed on their increased costs to their retailers, some absorbed the costs, and some began charging the “eco fees” that showed up on cash-register receipts.
Stewardship Ontario is involved only in charging stewards fees for what it costs to recover, recycle or render safe these hazardous products; it’s the retailers who decide how or if they will recover the additional cost with a consumer eco fee.
So, no new tax; no money flowing back to government to spend; no vast new bureaucracy springing up to burden the taxpayer (Stewardship Ontario was, until about a year ago, a virtual organization, and now has all of 20 staff), and really, a pretty smart program that is the first of its kind in Canada.
It’s all part of what in Europe is called extended producer responsibility; the citizen’s end is to participate in what’s called the Orange Drop program, and take their hazardous products to recycling depots and not toss them in the garbage – and ultimately, the landfill.
I am off now to the aerie-in-progress, to ponder further on all this.

McGoonty Hoping To Acheive The Riches Of Al Gore...

Kelly McParland: Ontario pays the price of environmental posturing

Kelly McParland  July 10, 2010 – 9:54 am

 

Here’s a great story about the absurdity that ensues when a government tries to force-feed an impractical policy to the population for the sake of environmental posturing.
If you don’t want to read the original, here’s a capsule version:
Ontario sponsors a program to encourage small users of solar power by giving them subsidies. Except it has proved so popular, especially in rural areas, the province quietly slashed the subsidy late last Friday. (You remember Friday, right — quiet sleepy day between Canada Day and the weekend? If you really really wanted to release something at a time no one would notice, you couldn’t pick a better day. Not that the McGuinty government would deliberately try to hide what it was doing, of course. Oh no).  The result is that people who bought into the program won’t get nearly the amount they expected. Now they’re upset — having discovered the ruse despite the government’s effort to hide it — and are bombarding MPPs with complaints. Read More »

Rex Murphy: This is a Green column. It must be good for you

Rex Murphy  July 10, 2010 – 9:00 am

REUTERS/Toby Melville

This column is like this photo: Pure, clean and self-generated

We’re ages away from times when magic and wizardry, mumbling of spells and incantations held minds captive and populated the world with invisible, unknowable phantoms and forces. The only serious incantation I can recall from literature is over 400 years old. It comes in a late work of Shakespeare’s great rival, Christopher Marlowe. Faustus is desperate to make contact with Lucifer, and knows just how to go about it: Read More »

To Hell With Green Advocates...

Gore's Soulmate...

Y2Kyoto: David Suzuki's Real Estate Footprint

 

(Hum along, my friends...) On the fifth day of sustainable living My guru gave to me... Property in Toronto, Another in Australia, A spot on Quadra Island, Water front in Point Grey, And a cabin up in northern BC...* h/t...

 

small dead animals |

Gore Wasn't Just Screwing Us On Carbon Credits...

Al Gore cheated with Larry David's ex

 

Laurie denies affair with Al

Look To The DON Of The Green Mafia For Answers...

The shady side of the green building industry

Mike Preston's company installed geothermal systems that many of his customers say don't work.

RICHARD LAUTENS/TORONTO STAR

 

By Diana Zlomislic

Sat May 15 2010

 

There are few quality-control standards to protect consumers from incompetent “eco experts” looking to cash in on the booming green building and renovation industry. 

Carbon Tax Fraud - Al Gore, Hillary Clinton ... 2 min 50 sec - 29 Oct 2007 video.google.com Roseman: Don’t fall victim to energy fraud at the door Sat May 15 2010 Ontario’s new law to curb energy sales abuses doesn’t come in until next year, so you have to guard against deception at the door.  Preston Manning: Proselytizer of science From right-wing, populist politician to coach for the science c

Al Gore Receives Honorary Doctorate

May 15, 2010 07:45 AM by Doug Powers
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“This award for promoting sustainable lifestyles will look great hanging on a wall in the cavernous, climate-controlled living room in one of my mansions!”

No You Can't Marni! Environut's Priorities Are Paramount

Marni Soupcoff: Too bad about the frogs, but can I pick the humans? Environmentalists have strange priorities

Posted: May 12, 2010, 1:39 PM by Marni Soupcoff Filed under: Marni Soupcoff

 

Several things struck me about this Toronto Star article, reporting on the UN's latest warnings about the growing threat to wildlife and "an alarming loss in biodiversity." 1)  It's funny the way environmentalists can wax on poetically about the sacred worth of all flora and fauna, then in the same breath get so nasty about an invasive animal that you'd think it was the anti-Christ. Here's how the Global Biodiversity Outlook report describes the Canada goose: “It is a pest species causing habitat modification such as trampling and algal blooms from eutrophication caused by nutrients from roosting geese." True enough, I'm sure, but what's the lesson? We must spare no resource or expense to save the precious Arakan forest turtles that are the lifeblood of our planet, but these evil, foul geese? May they die a slow agonizing death!

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