If you watch the entire video, John Cadogan explains why ‘net zero’ is a curse on countries such as Australia and Canada. Countries that are awash with fossil fuel material as well as uranium. Coal, oil, natural gas, uranium….we have lots. In theory, our cost of electricity and gasoline should be dirt cheap. Even with the huge tax grab that all the levels of government take, we should be paying much less than we are now.
And that is why ‘net zero’ is a curse. Instead of using the fossil fuels for the benefit of our own citizens, we ship those materials to other countries that use those fossil fuels to manufacture things such as steel, concrete etc that we then buy back, at a premium I might add, to build the ‘net zero’ infrastructure.
You do not have to go far to see this in action. Many of the new Canadian flagged ships you see sailing in and out of the Port of Thunder Bay are built in China.
The Mistake-On-The-Lake art gallery being built on our waterfront is being branded as a net zero facility. That ‘net zero’ classification does not include the hundreds if not thousands of tonnes of carbon that was emitted into the atmosphere to produce the building materials used to construct the building let alone the fuel that was burned by the machinery used in the construction. The site was cleared of trees and shrubs.
Net zero will not work. Its not possible. Wind and solar require a huge amount of fossil fuels to produce the materials required to manufacture the solar panels and turbines. Then there is the installation. Think of how much concrete it will take to construct each wind turbine base. How much land those wind and solar farms will take up.
These are all things that are never mentioned when ‘net zero’ is discussed.
Sooo why are we not using fossil fuels to produce cheap energy for us? Why do we have to pay more?
and then there is this:
Wasting Away In Wind-And-Solarville
The waste that is generated by the replacement of wind turbine blades and solar panels. This is never mentioned as part of thrNet Zero agenda.