Problem is, Canada can do nothing about climate change. "It is a fiction and a delusion that Canada is in any way now or ever will be a significant influence for good or ill, in the dreary, endless, pup-chasing-its-tail fight against climate change," writes Murphy. Amen to that. He adds that even if Canada were to halt this country's entire energy output, the race to eco-apocalypse that the doom-mongers say we're on would not be slowed by a week. The coal mines of India and China would see to that.
As I have blogged on several occasions, Canada's boreal forests clean twice the carbon the entire country emits. We are cleaning the carbon of other countries, people! But let's lay on a carbon tax -- or as Climate Barbie calls it, a price on pollution -- anyway and then let's give most of it back in a rebate. What's the point of that? I have never understood?
"Four cabinet ministers and the prime minister for the announcement of an approval (was it the second or third?) of an extension to a pipeline, built in the 1950s, that has been sitting in regulatory remand for eight years? And has run through 17 court cases. And umpteen professional protest. And the departure of the company that ran it, owned it and wanted to build the damn extension, due to sheer frustration with the mess of Canadian green obstructionism and government's prostrate, supine response to that campaign," he continues.
(Whew, pure Tex there; have to take a deep breath before continuing.)
"Why, this is The Last Spike in our time! A nation-building moment if ever there were one. This is better than plastic straws (the bane of my existence, as you know). If only Stompin' Tom were still around so we could get a ballad out of this. Let's all stand and sing the anthem."
He concludes by saying how wonderful it was that Scheer finally proved he knew where Paris was. It's all a complete crock. The Herald had a great cartoon yesterday outlining the "problem":
Take that Climate Barbie.
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