Quel scandale : nous devons demander l'autorisation de la Commission européenne pour construire nos centrales nucléaires EPR2 (!), qui pose des exigences (interconnexions, revente a des tiers) qui en détruisent une grande partie des avantages. Afuera!

Exner-Pirot on the Clean Fuel Standard (CFR): "There is an even more insidious aspect to the CFR. To meet their carbon intensity targets, many Canadian refiners blend biofuels into their petroleum products. But Canada is not self-sufficient in their production. More than half of Canada’s biofuels are imported, predominantly from the United States. Somehow, in the middle of a trade war and an energy crisis, it has gone unnoticed that Canada — the aspiring energy superpower — has artificially made itself dependent on the United States for fuel. The vulnerability was brutally exposed with U.S. President Donald Trump’s diesel export ban threat, when refiners were scrambling to find out if renewable diesel bound for Canada would be caught in the net. It is a favourite line of the Carney government that, amidst geopolitical rupture and trade disruption, “Canada is focused on what we can control.” The CFR is at the top of the list of self-harming, expensive and distortive policies that Canada controls, and has every interest in rolling back." @ExnerPirot

Scrap the Paris temperature targets, says @RogerPielkeJr. They don’t tell us which policies work. Yet households and businesses pay the price of those policies. And their patience has limits. Ever-higher energy bills. Industry moving abroad. European leaders should not be surprised when the yellow vests return. Pielke also sees expensive energy as a driver of the political upheaval across many countries. His “iron law”: when climate policy collides with the economy, the economy wins. A temperature target or a deadline for “net zero” won’t change that. His alternative: technological progress that cuts emissions AND increases prosperity. In conversation with @marcelcrok, Pielke explains why climate policy needs a rethink — and why he is finally optimistic. Watch the full interview: youtu.be/QFrAGK_OEXk

Es ist doch herrlich: Das grüne Märchen der „Wärmewende“ feiert in Schleswig-Holstein einen grandiosen Triumph! Im idyllischen Reetdorf an der Geltinger Bucht zerbröselt der ideologische Heizungstraum gerade in seine Einzelteile. Hunderte teure Wärmepumpen fallen reihenweise aus, die Technik streikt. Der Schaden? Geht längst in die Millionen. Der betroffene Investor hat jedenfalls genug von diesem umweltpolitischen Zwangsexperiment: „Alle unsere Wärmepumpen kommen raus“, sagt er klipp und klar und stellt fest, „dass die Bauleitung bei den Stadtwerken lag und sie unser alleiniger Vertragspartner sind“. Aber wer zahlt das juristische Fiasko, wenn die ach so perfekte Technik vorzeitig durchrostet? Für den normalen Hausbesitzer ist so ein Totalausfall der direkte Weg in den finanziellen Ruin. Das ist die brutale Realität des einst diktierten Heizungsgesetzes, dessen fatale Erblast den Bürgern auch im Herbst 2026 noch die Existenz kostet. Aber keine Sorge, das politische Filz-System schützt sich selbst. CDU-Mann Holger Ley kontrolliert als Aufsichtsratschef gemütlich die Stadtwerke. Praktischerweise leitet er auch den Aufsichtsrat der Tochterfirma, die die Geräte eingekauft hat. Und weil Kontrolle so schön ist, führt er ebenso den Aufsichtsrat der zweiten Tochterfirma, die den Kram dann beim Kunden einbaute. Ein Schelm, wer bei dieser wundersamen personellen Dreifaltigkeit an einen handfesten Interessenkonflikt bei der Schuldfrage denkt! Die Stadtwerke winken ungeniert ab: alles ein „übliches Verfahren“. Während die Politik die Bürger in eine unbezahlbare technische Sackgasse gezwungen hat, machen es sich lokale Funktionäre auf ihren Posten bequem. Wer sich diese Zwangstechnik heute antun muss, braucht vor allem eins: ein pralles Sparbuch für den unvermeidlichen Totalausfall. #Wärmepumpen #Heizungsgesetz #Habeck report24.news/waermepumpen-d…

Le #climat est plus complexe que le seul #CO2, et les politiques de réduction des émissions peuvent avoir des effets contradictoires, parfois très différents de ceux annoncés 👇nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon warns Europe is falling dangerously behind America economically… and blames anti-business, anti-investment, and anti-innovation policies. 🇺🇸🇪🇺 “If you don’t believe me, go to Europe, folks. Europe used to have a GDP per person of 90% of America’s. It’s now 65%. It’s on its way to 50%. That will jeopardize the health of Europe itself over time. And it’s all anti-business, anti-investment, anti-innovation. They kind of know it. If they don’t fix it—and we should help them fix it, because Europe matters—it’s really bad for the Western world, too. We should do it wisely.” Europe shift over the past three decades has proven decimating for their economy. Aging population forces mass immigration in order to maintain adequate growth. Crazy regulation and bureaucracy slows innovation and investment… forcing the economy further down. At the same time, the United States has pulled ahead exponentially and will continue to do so. Europe is struggling.

💧 #RéalismeClimatique 🇨🇦 ET VOILÀ ! LE RISQUE CLIMATIQUE FINANCIER Lorsque Carney dirigeait la Banque d’Angleterre, il a pris la parole au Lloyd’s de Londres (2015), où il a fait valoir que « le changement climatique menaçait la stabilité financière ». 🤦🏻‍♂️ facebook.com/share/p/1MdhH3s…

"The targets the UK has pledged for decarbonisation are highly unlikely to be achieved." Earlier this year, we sat down with @RogerPielkeJr. He told us that the realities of our energy system do not allow for decarbonisation by 2050. "They'll have to fudge the numbers, or they'll have to change the law."

Net zero added £140.3bn to Britain's electricity bills in 2002–24: £2,286 for the average household. Modelled, in 2024 prices. Nobody official counts it. Parliament should require a yearly statement, with data anyone can check. richardlyon.substack.com/p/n…

Canada’s cheapest barrel just got a friend in Victoria. British Columbia elected its first Conservative government since 1928, with about 2/3 of the 93 seats. That matters for the $28 discount on Canadian heavy oil I wrote about. The barrel is cheap because it has one big buyer, the US, and one pipe to the Pacific, Trans Mountain, already 98% full. The outgoing government opposed new oil pipelines and locked in the northern tanker ban with Ottawa in July. The new premier, Lorne Doerkson, welcomed Pacific Link, the 1m b/d pipe to the Vancouver coast, and wants a working group with Alberta and Ottawa. Today federal Conservatives pushed a bill to scrap the tanker ban, CP reports. Hear me out: Victoria can’t lift that ban alone. It’s federal law. What moves is who sits across the table from Alberta. I’m watching the Pacific Link open season next spring. That’s when producers show whether they’ll pay for the pipe. Do not miss my article: themerchantsnews.substack.co…

Have policymakers in the EU, the UK and US states never heard of El Hierro? A small island with 11,000 residents and plenty of wind. An ideal testing ground for the promise of 100% renewable electricity, before making millions of people depend on it. They installed wind turbines with more than twice the island’s average electricity demand in capacity, plus pumped hydro storage. Yet in 2025, this system supplied just 44% of its electricity. Diesel supplied the rest. @mhtncontrarian explains why: during prolonged periods of low wind, the upper reservoir empties. Then the diesel generators have to take over. If this setup cannot deliver on its promise on a small, windy island, why are politicians so confident it will work on a vastly larger scale? They keep pushing ahead, with millions of people’s electricity supply at stake.