Lies printed by media are still lies
I am never sure who I should hate more; greedy politicians who do incredibly destructive things, or the journalists that help them get way with it. The following is from an article by the Toronto Star.
Clearly, Carney understands the scope of the climate threat, and he realizes that transitioning to clean energy is necessary and that it would actually benefit Canada’s economy.
However, lined up against Carney is the enormously powerful set of interests that make up the fossil fuel industry, and they have very different plans for Canada.
Their plans demand that Ottawa assist them (including with huge financial subsidies) as they squeeze every dollop of bitumen from the ground — no matter how wildly fires rage across the country and how Trumpishly orange the skies become.
Alas, Carney has capitulated to these demands.
I normally don’t pay any attention to the Star. But the Star has the widest circulation of any publication in Canada, which is a problem when you consider that not a single word printed above is true.
Clearly, Carney understands the scope of the climate threat, and he realizes that transitioning to clean energy is necessary and that it would actually benefit Canada’s economy.
Mark Carney likes to claim that Canada will benefit economically from clean energy, and the Star is helping him by repeating that lie. To start with there is no such thing as clean energy. Every form of energy comes with environmental impacts. To pretend that wind turbines and solar panels have no cost is just childish. Second, Wind Turbines and Solar panels are expensive and unreliable. Every country that has used them has seen costs increase and grid reliability decrease due to the intermittent and unpredictable nature of those technologies. There is not a single piece of evidence that says making energy expensive and unreliable has positive economic benefits.
However, lined up against Carney is the enormously powerful set of interests that make up the fossil fuel industry, and they have very different plans for Canada.
This is another statement that Canadian media loves to make. That big oil dictates to government how things are going to work. Anyone like me who works in the industry knows what a joke that is. The Canadian oil industry is regulated almost to death. Recently I could not fix a culvert without prior government approval. Justin Trudeau cancelled an Enbridge pipeline permit after Enbridge had spent 6 years and 1 billion dollars jumping through hoops to get the permit. If the oil industry was as powerful as the star thinks, would it take 6 years to get a permit that could be cancelled on a whim? Would government permission be necessary to fix a simple culvert?
Their plans demand that Ottawa assist them (including with huge financial subsidies) as they squeeze every dollop of bitumen from the ground — no matter how wildly fires rage across the country and how Trumpishly orange the skies become.
Alas, Carney has capitulated to these demands.
This statement references the recent announcement that the province of Alberta would finance a new pipeline. The star reports that this was a demand from industry but not a single company asked for this. Mark Carney put so many ridiculously expensive conditions on a new pipeline that no private company would touch it. But Alberta Premier Daniel Smith is facing a separatist movement in her province. Smith believes she can placate the separatists and preserve her political career by building a pipeline. So how exactly did Carney capitulate to a demand that was never given?
Also don’t get me started on the whole “we would never have forest fires if no one owned an SUV narrative”.
When I read such ridiculous tripe, I immediately thought this would be a rant about how Canadian politics are corrupt because the media so badly misinforms Canadians. But that would only be part of the issue. Media misinforms people everywhere. This is an article out of Australia about how expensive and unreliable electricity has become.
Price hikes have been mostly due to network costs, or the cost of transporting power, with operators investing heavily in infrastructure
“But are we prepared to tolerate a slightly slower pace of decarbonisation on electricity in the name of less expensive energy? Or are we prepared to take little more outage time in exchange for lower prices?”
The price hikes are from network costs. This is true but it is not the whole truth. They fail to mention none of this spending would have been necessary if not for the transition to “clean” energy. Then the article presents only 2 solutions; pay more or accept blackouts. There is however a third option. Australia could simply stop being stupid. Before “clean” energy, energy was cheap and reliable. Just turn back the clock. Unfortunately, common sense is not the narrative the media supports.
My last example is an interview that Elon Musk gave. The Journalist had an agenda. She wanted to paint Musk as an evil killer.
In 90 minutes, she threw out “facts” that “everybody knows,” such as that Elon killed children in Africa, or that he fronts for fascists, and that he is “despised.” It would be enough to intimidate most people into a defensive ball.
The narrative is not new. It is also not true. But the journalist knows her job is not the truth. She just did not expect that Musk could so easily dismantle her in front of her own camera.
The western world is collapsing under the weight of its own stupidity. It is the result of politics and politicians. But could any of this happen if our media was not so corrupt? You do not hate mainstream media enough.










