Showing posts with label energy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label energy. Show all posts

Sunday, July 20, 2025

Knowing Canada is a mess is too little too late

Alan Fryer is a retired journalist of the CTV TV news, and somebody I follow today on X, where @alanfryermedia comments about politics with the same point of view I saw on television. I admit there was a time when I enjoyed watching so-called mainstream media news. It was necessary to read between the lines, but journalists didn't make it impossible to see two-sides of a story in the old days. 

Today, Fryer said, "Multiculturalism was a concept that once united and indeed defined Canada. The 'multiculturalism' on display in the streets of our major cities these days - the post-national variety of multiculturalism - is instead ripping at the very fabric of our country and testing our our national solidarity and identity. This will forever be the Trudeau legacy."

Fryer wrote his remarks in response to Terry Newman @TLNewmanMTL, who said, "I predict serious clashes in Montreal streets in the not too distant future."


This is when I jumped in the fray, with:

Yes, I grew up in a country with a multi-cultural understanding of society, and an international goal of keeping peace.

Now I live in a Cosa Nostra Dreamscape, where organized crime doesn't have to rob any banks, they open the Canadian taxpayer vault, cash and carry the cash.

Every single day these mobster Liberals announce a new way to fleece taxpayers. It's uncanny that an educated population of a leading industrialized nation let this happen.

I personally see how it happened. The first thing you need to corrupt in a society like Canada is, believe it or not, the legal system. Everything about this long game crime spree hinges on the judges. They are lifers, those judges, so you need to appoint the crooks. 

This wasn't always the way. And it's not as simple as it looks. The crooks know, first of all, it's the legal fraternity appointing the judges. So the crooks needed to infiltrate the legal system, through law schools. Once inside the legal system, they used the multiplicity, a virtual jeremiad of criminal techniques, intimidation, threats, surveillance and gathering of secrets, to find the lawyers with the weak spots. Those are the lawyers these 'lawyer-criminals' would lobby governments for appointments to the bench.

Lawyer criminals recommending lawyer criminals for appointment to the bench. That's where Canada lost its country to the criminals.

I cannot tell you how strange it is to see something like this right up close in your face. Like a mobster fucking your wife in the ass (Internal Affairs, Richard Gere). But I am a witness to how this country was lost to criminals. I saw it happen, when the pieces began to fall into my lap. 

Obviously, this revelation is too little and too late. But it's a motherfucker to see criminals run roughshod over a country.

Thursday, July 10, 2025

Brain drain over engine ban in Canada


Canada's future. Pretend it is 2035.

In Canada today (2035), you don't have a future like any other country in the world. When you banned gasoline Canada endured a brain drain that gutted the economy.

Anybody with the ability to fix an engine left the country, since there is zero industry in Canada fixing engines that the government declared obsolete almost a decade ago.

First, there are no parts stores, gas stations, or marine fuel docks. Nobody has any refined oil, as in, gasoline or diesel, for sale. 

Boats pile up on the shores derelict reminders of another life, back in 2025. Automobiles pile on driveways and in ditches beside empty highways. The old bastard Prime Minister Guilbeault is correct. 

Nobody builds highways in Canada anymore. He made sure of it by passing it into law in 2026.

The rusting cars and moldy boats would be operational with fuel, and mechanics, of which there is none available and therefore affordable to normal Canadians.

Today, in 2035, when you look at a map of the world at night, two places are bathed in darkness in the whole world. Canada, and North Korea. When the wrong people take power bad things happen.

It's not an issue of the inevitable, or destiny, or shit happens. 

Humans let down their guard. This is a mistake. Oh, and humans don't learn much from history either. That's how Guilbeault became Prime Minister in 2027.

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Tuesday, May 27, 2025

So, we decided the future is solar

 It's solar or bust for the human race.

It's true, when the infrastructure falls into place, and you're at a latitude advantageous for production of solar electricity.

Equally, the invention of batteries, and the evolution of solar energy gathering technology, it may only take minutes a day in cloudy conditions to create the kind of power we use daily in our industrial and domestic lives.

You could probably expect a paint on an automobile to turn both sun and warmth into electrical energy to power the car and store in batteries. Batteries will evolve into something beyond recognition. The whole world could be done over, and will be. Because you're right. The power of the sun makes oil look like a fart in the wind.

It's important to recognize limits on petroleum energy, because it may indeed be a supply that could go on forever, who knows? 

The problem is basic. It takes a large concentration of energy simply to distribute petroleum, and if the demand for this form of energy is increasing, the infrastructure also needs to expand, which means the tankers need to be bigger, and sail more frequently, and the storage facilities need to be larger, and the pipelines need to expand, and the gas lines to the houses, and the gas stations for the increasing number of cars, and trucks, and trains.  

In short, it becomes ungainly to deliver this form of energy, to be honest, plus, you build it, then, run out of oil. What a mess that's going to be. And you haven't replaced it. Which was supposed to happen in about 1975.

The actual projections for running out of oil stands at 50 years from now. That's also a blink and you're there.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Canadian wood fuel is powering European cities

The time is now for things to change in forestry in B.C. and across Canada, said John Swaan, Wood Pellet Association of Canada's executive director. The industry faces many challenges, and among them an excess of deteriorating wood fibre that is growing in value, depending on the outcome of research and development in the use of bio-mass for energy.

"Access to sawmill residue is hard to find," said John. "The sawmill residue is being totally utilized. Meanwhile non-commercial grade fibre is abundant in the B.C. forests and elsewhere," due to existing forestry practices. The problem for wood pellet manufacture is that to harvest debris would cause a five-fold increase in the cost of fibre used in wood pellet manufacture because sawmill residue has been the cost-efficient commodity to make wood pellets to this date.

Nevertheless, "The forest floor holds the future of economic development," said John. In terms of bio-energy, untold mega-watts of electricity are being slashed and piled and burnt in North America's forests, a situation that becomes practically macabre when the deterioration of mountain pine beetle factors into the equation. In that disaster lies an opportunity, and the members of the association are poised to develop a new economic sector.

 People like John Swaan are impacted by the current state of B.C. forests because they are close witnesses to the situation. "I have made many trips through the B.C. Interior looking at forests that I was involved doing the replanting of lodgepole pine, and those trees of 30 years ago are dead." John doesn't mind saying the Ministry of Forests in B.C. remains bent on placating licensees and that is a perpetual reality in North American forestry, companies rule the forests. Things may be changing, however, and Swaan said First Nations are major partners in accessing volume of fibre required to the bio-mass/energy production equation, whatever form it ends up taking.

"We need to reclaim and remediate forests and First Nations are front-line advocates of the process. We have to deal with big changes in forests because of 50 years of fire suppression in forestry management." Fire is an ecological player that has played a reduced role, and it is a major part of the way forests have evolved. Meanwhile, the market for wood-generated energy is expanding, "Wood is displacing coal in Europe," said John. "In one Belgian city one of our members started shipping 120,000 tonnes of wood pellet annually to replace 80,000 tonnes of coal." Cities in the Netherlands, Belgium, and the UK are switching from coal fuel to wood. Canada is the source of their wood-energy.

The wood pellet industry runs on a shoe string, according to Len Fox, General Manager, Premium Pellet, in Vanderhoof, B.C., "It's difficult to make money. Our fibre costs are high and our profit margins are tight." Even so, Premium Pellet is filling orders as usual in Europe, and increasingly more often in North America. The area of operation for Premium Pellet is northern B.C., which puts Premium Pellet in close liaison with First Nations throughout the territory and they work exceptionally closely with Saikuz First Nation.

"Six of our 15 employees are First Nation and one of them is about to become certified as a millwright," said Len who grew up in Telkwa, B.C., a historical village of 1,400 located on the Bulkley and Telkwa Rivers. This is a completely integrated community of Babine First Nation people living with those of non-Native descent.

The business is export-driven and viability depends on watching costs, "We're the tail wagging the dog at this end of the industry. We are affected whenever CN Rail puts up their rates or truckers put up their rates. On the other hand we're pretty comfortable in our operations right now. We have an affordable supply of fibre and good relations all around."

 The Premium Pellet is a subsidiary of L&M Lumber Ltd. and Nechako Lumber Co Ltd. "L&M has agreements to employ Saik'uz First Nation (Stoney Creek) people in their harvest and other operations," said Len. Saik'uz is located 9km south-east of Vanderhoof on Kenney Dam road.

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