Here is a post that puts the lie to everything LIE-berals tell us about green energy and to LIE-beral environmental policy:
In 2009, economists at Spain`s Juan Carlos University concluded that Spain-a global leader in green energy- LOST 2.2 jobs for every single `green` job that was created. Only TEN PERCENT of green jobs proved to be permanent.
Each green job Spain created cost 571,138 Euros or $770,781 Cdn! Every wind industry job cost over one million Euros- or $1,349,544 Cdn.
In 2010 economists at Italy`s Bruno Leoni Institute found that the amount of capital needed to create one green sector job was capable of creating 5- 6 jobs in the regular economy.
In 2011 in Britain, Verso Economics concluded that for every single renewable energy job created in Britain- there were 3.7 other jobs lost.
Our own Fraser Institute has also spoken and their researchers suggest that LIE-beral green job creation numbers “are vacuous”! The Fraser Group went on to say that “counting new jobs created is meaningless unless the jobs being destroyed are also counted”.
LIE-berals have totally failed to be honest with us about numbers of jobs lost due to their very badly set up green energy program with its costly pay outs to owners of wind and solar farms- who just happen to be friends of LIE-beral party. LIE-berals have committed us to buy any and all green energy produced regardless of our real needs and in addition we are paying an extremely high kilowatt per hour price for this mouldy green energy.
Even worse- we cannot shut off the green production even when we have an excess of electricity which means that at various times of the year we end up with way more electricity than we can use and must sell it off to other provinces and Yankee states at a very substantial LOSS.
To make matters worse, Ontari-owe green energy is so unreliable that we must keep natural gas fired generators boiling at full heat- ready to produce the steam needed to spin turbines- yet producing NO POWER-they just sit- burning fuel and waiting for the sun to go behind a cloud or that gust of wind to fade- and thus producing drastic reductions in green energy production.
Our economy AND environment would be better off if we SCRAPPED the green energy-with its attendant massive plumes of carbon from concrete for wind tower foundations, its need for miles of aluminum wiring plus attendant corrosive fumes from smelting that aluminum to connect to the main grid, the heaps of carbon rich steel for towers and such, plus all the exotic and toxic chemicals for carbon turbine blades and etc- and instead we just went ahead and used the natural gas fired plants that are ALREADY UP AND RUNNING- with the BONUS that the gas plants produce electricity at about one eighth the cost of solar and wind power- with NO INCREASE in carbon output!
LIE-berals certainly will not consider numbers of jobs with frozen wages or reduced hours as bosses cut back on labour costs in order to free up money for the gross electricity bills LIE-berals are throwing at them. LIE-berals ignore the consequences of their own costly bribes offered to any company that will set up in Ontari-owe-with the bribes coming in the form of REDUCTIONS IN ELECTRICITY RATES for a period of years and also LIE-berals offer reduced tax rates and assorted grants as well-all this done as LIE-berals ignore the reality that their mad spending schemes and desperate efforts to cling to power by purchasing civil service Hog support is killing the provincial economy by burying it in debt!
LIE-berals are taxing established Ontari-owe companies to death in a vain effort to attract real jobs here and instead LIE-berals are getting stuck with fly by night and quick buck artists!
One has only to look at the Oshawa Call Centre that disappeared one weekend-leaving 500 people with 2 weeks pay owing and no doubt leaving assorted other bills for phones, heat, light, rent etc owing as well-bills that LIE-berals will not want to discuss. And the `Oshawa` Call Centre re-opened in Atlanta Georgia with a GOVT GRANT! Who needs `business` like this? But LIE-berals don’t care-they simply wanted to trumpet the creation of new jobs at a photo op!
Or we can consider the furor that erupted at Queens Park and in the news media a year back when it was discovered that LIE-berals had quietly RE-NEGOTIATED their green energy garbage deals with companies such as Samsung-companies that have FAILED to fulfill their obligations under the mouldy green deal! They have not hired as many people as expected-shades of Spain and Britain perhaps? And have not invested as much money as promised- yet LIE-berals deliberately IGNORED the clauses that would have let them opt out of the bad deals and went ahead and dug us in even deeper! Just how much of our money are LIE-berals willing to WASTE in order to avoid admitting they screwed up the energy file?
The worst of it is that LIE-beral environmental policy is modeled on the disgraced European model that is loaded with fraud and criminal activity such as producing forged carbon credits and false documents, stock market swindles revolving around sales of carbon credits, and outright lies about carbon production such as that revealed by Volkswagen when it was found that their cars responded to drive clean test equipment by altering engine performance- to avoid a FAILING GRADE! Even worse, it has been recently revealed that one third of all diesel engines emit way more carbon in real world conditions than they do in the laboratory-in other words those Environmental Protection Agency and `Drive Clean` tests are pretty much USELESS!
And if these European carbon reduction measure were actually working would we not see some sign of cleaner air? LIE-berals tell us that Ontari-owe air IS cleaner-but we must point out that destroying local industries and killing jobs and driving industries to move their production to other jurisdictions is NOT cleaning anything- it is just moving the dirt around!
The Euro Zone population has over 500 million people- all of them involved in the disgraced Carbon crap and trade model beloved of Cdn LIE-berals- with Europeans not using as much fossil fuel as we North Americans- but they ARE in the second level of consumption directly below us and should there not be SOME improvement in world air quality when such a massive bloc of people alter their fossil fuel consumption? As things are getting steadily WORSE we can safely conclude that the Carbon crap and trade model used by various greedy LIE-beral style govts is NOT WORKING! Carbon crap and trade is designed ONLY to clean wallets- NOT THE AIR!
LIE-beral environmental policy is a TOTAL FAILURE!
The quickest and easiest way to save the environment is to restrict the use of our most fuel hungry machines! LIE-berals know that air planes are the dirtiest way to move passengers or goods of any sort- yet LIE-berals are tinkering with the idea of building a new air port in Pickering! Would we not be better off to take that air port money and put it into Toronto subway system which will deliver a real solid improvement to air quality for the next hundred years as people switch from cars to public transit? After all- it is easy to get people to use transit IF it offers a real and PRACTICAL alternative to car travel!
But sadly, LIE-berals are dedicated to helping civil service PIGS FLY. But there will come a day when air travellers are regarded in the same way as smokers puffing their crap in your face!
There is only one way to save the environment and that is by cutting out things we really can do without! That means dumping air planes and using trains and busses instead! And the quickest way to get Hogs off planes is to cut back on their gravy! We cannot pay them what they think they deserve! In truth we cannot even provide them with the gravy that LIE-berals have already promised them in exchange for their votes- and its to damned bad for us that LIE-berals and Hogs are engaged in a gross conflict of interest that ought to be illegal! Why should Hogs get to vote for the govt that is bankrupting us by giving Hogs those wonderful pensions that are so rich we ordinary peons are not permitted by LIE-beral law to have such rich gravy! LIE-beral policy towards civil service Hogs is bribery of the most egregious sort and this pursuit of gravy is killing both our economy and our environment!
