Steve had this post, “Night Cap: Did The EU Just Make the Net-Zero Transition Illegal” in which the CURRENT EU head honchos passed this resolution:
The European Union’s (EU) cabal of meddling ministers has passed a resolution “requiring firms and their upstream and downstream partners, including supply, production and distribution, to prevent, end or mitigate their adverse impact on human rights and the environment.”
In this case, they are going all-in on renewables. Not so fast, mi amigo! After all, the EU countries just held their national elections over the weekend and the EU Parliament is about to get buffeted as a result. The MSM is all aghast that “the continent” may be drifting to the Right.
Marie Le Pen’s Party is about to take over France and will govern conservatively. Gert Wilders, a politician that the Netherlands would just go away, is riding on the “Farmers Party” (started at regular folk farmers who decided to politically whack the Greens, literally pushing to put them out of business because of “sustainability”) and is forming a conservative government. Germany is headed rightward as well, and the new AfD party has won bigely locally and in the national elections. Nigel Farage just decided to run for office again via the new Reform Party, and it looks like that is going to upset both the Tories and Labour in Britain. The socialist government in Belgium just fell as well.
In each of all the countries, the Green Parties took a shellacking – people are standing up to these enviro bullies and demanding:
“When I turn on that light switch, dang it, that light had better go on!”
Sweden has already announced that it is going all-in for Nukes. France is getting ready to build more Nukes. Germany has had to relight shuttered coal plants to keep up with power demands. One by one, the Socialists (or as we call them here in ‘Merica – Progressives) countries are realizing that citizens aren’t on board with lower standards of living because of an ideologically based secular religion. Given that they are still nominally democracies (even as the bureaucrats wish otherwise), they are all standing up and screaming “ENOUGH OF THIS NONSENSE”.
Add three more (but wait! I have many more for later!) – the first is “Where would the Paris Agreement (on curtailing emissions to zero) without Paris?”. And this is a direct result of the EU elections:
In a shock move, President Emmanuel Macron called a parliamentary election, describing it as ‘an act of confidence’
In a shock move, France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, has called a snap parliamentary election that will be held within the next 30 days. What happened exactly, why – and what might come next?…After suffering a crushing defeat at the hands of Marine Le Pen’s far right National Rally (RN) in the European parliamentary elections, the French president on Sunday evening unexpectedly announced a snap general election.
According to usually accurate projections, Macron’s centrist list, headed by MEP Valérie Hayer, scored between 14.8% and 15.2% in the European poll, less than half the 32%-33% tally booked by RN, whose lead candidate was the party’s president, Jordan Bardella, 28.
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But she has promised to cancel wind and solar subsidies and instead concentrate on nuclear power, and she has also indicates she wants to protect French manufacturing – she regards driving manufacturing offshore with harsh climate rules but still using the manufactured products, importing the products instead of manufacturing them in France, as “climate hypocrisy”.
Dutton to pull Australia out of Paris Agreement if elected
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has signalled he will scrap the nation’s legally binding 2030 climate target and risk Australia’s membership of the Paris Agreement on climate change, following his vow to deploy nuclear energy to reach net zero by 2050. Dutton declared on Saturday that a Coalition government would not pursue Australia’s legally binding climate target to cut emissions by 43 per cent from 2005 levels by 2030 – a significant escalation of Australia’s long-running climate policy war ahead of the next federal election due by May next year.
Dutton told The Australian on Saturday that the government’s renewable goal was unattainable and:
“there’s no sense in signing up to targets you don’t have any prospect of achieving”.
The opposition has said if it forms government it would build up to seven emissions-free nuclear power plants to replace the energy supply from Australia’s dirty coal plants, which have begun to shut down across the country. He would also pause the rollout of wind and solar farms.
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“You can’t have the prime minister saying we aren’t going to have coal, we aren’t going to have gas and we’re not going to have nuclear power and we are going to keep the lights on – that’s just fantasy. We now have a debate about energy which I think we can win,” he told The Australian.
And again from the Land from DownUnder and from across the pond from us (a mashup of NZ and UK):
New Zealand was on Saturday night expected to revoke a ban on drilling for oil and gas amid fears of blackouts, as Labour (UK) plans to impose a similar crackdown on the North Sea. The country’s coalition government is preparing to invite energy companies to resume exploration in the three major offshore fields that supply most of its gas. It comes after National Grid operator Transpower was last month forced to warn families to limit their electricity usage to avoid a shutdown during a cold snap.
The decision to reverse the ban, made by resources minister Shane Jones, will be a setback for green activists and likely to be regarded as a blow for Labour after Ed Miliband has repeatedly pledged to halt new drilling for oil and gas in UK waters.
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However, New Zealand’s change of course has been cheered by industry leaders. John Carnegie, chief executive of trade body Energy Resources Aotearoa, said: “We welcome a return to sensible, pragmatic policy settings that fairly manage the upstream oil and gas sector to the benefit of all New Zealanders.
“New Zealand faces an energy shortage which threatens our electricity system…
Heck, even Lloyd Alter (formerly of TreeHugger and now over at Substack as “Carbon Upfront!”) is getting on board with nukes – reality is slowly sinking into his “sustainability brain”.
