Posted on 07/28/2022 4:22:02 PM PDT by dennisw
PM Justin Trudeau has decided to move forward with his cap on nitrogen emissions by reducing fertilizer use even as provincial Agriculture Ministers beg him to stop.
As per a Government of Saskatchewan news release, both Alberta and Saskatchewan’s Ministers of Agriculture have expressed “profound disappointment” in Trudeau’s decision to attempt to reduce nitrogen emissions from fertilizer.
“We’re really concerned with this arbitrary goal,” Saskatchewan Minister of Agriculture David Marit said. “The Trudeau government has apparently moved on from their attack on the oil and gas industry and set their sights on Saskatchewan farmers.”
According to Alberta Agriculture Minister Nate Horner, “This has been the most expensive crop anyone has put in, following a very difficult year on the prairies. The world is looking for Canada to increase production and be a solution to global food shortages. The Federal government needs to display that they understand this. They owe it to our producers.”
As previously reported by The Counter Signal, in December 2020, the Trudeau government unveiled their new climate plan, with a focus on reducing nitrous oxide emissions from fertilizer by 30% below 2020 levels by 2030. That plan is now coming into effect — though the government refuses to acknowledge that nitrous oxide emissions can be reduced without drastically reducing fertilizer use and thus crop production.
“Fertilizers play a major role in the agriculture sector’s success and have contributed to record harvests in the last decade. They have helped drive increases in Canadian crop yields, grain sales, and exports,” a news release from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada reads.
“However, nitrous oxide emissions, particularly those associated with synthetic nitrogen fertilizer use have also grown significantly. That is why the Government of Canada has set the national fertilizer emissions reduction target, which is part of the commitment to reduce total GHG emissions in Canada by 40-45% by 2030….”
This is a tacit admission that any attempt to lower admissions by reducing nitrogen fertilizer will consequently lower crop yields over the next decade, hurting the Agriculture sector and, more importantly, hurting farmers.
And indeed, according to a report from Fertilizer Canada:
Total Emission Reduction puts a cap on the total emissions allowable from fertilizer at 30% below 2020 levels. As the yield of Canadian crops is directly linked to proper fertilizer application this creates a ceiling on Canadian agricultural productivity well below 2020 levels….
It is estimated that a 30% absolute emission reduction for a farmer with 1000 acres of canola and 1000 acres of wheat, stands to have their profit reduced by approximately $38,000 – $40,500/ annually.
In 2020, Western Canadian farmers planted approximately 20.8 million acres of canola. Using these values, cumulatively farm revenues from canola could be reduced by $396M – $441M on an annual basis. Wheat famers could experience a reduction of $400M.
Moreover, Fertilizer Canada doesn’t believe that forcibly decreasing fertilizer use will even lower greenhouse gases but could lead to carbon leakage elsewhere.
Nonetheless, Trudeau’s government is moving forward, with farmer’s groups speaking to Farmers Forum now wondering if he’s intentionally trying to cause a food shortage — which Trudeau previously told Canadians to prepare for.
Coming soon... quite literally socialism “because they didn’t do it right before.”
I never heard of nitrous oxide emissions from fertilizer until 2 months ago, when the Dutch started coming down on their farmers. Did these rats get the high sign from WEF-Klaus Schwab?
And these people report it like a baseball game. They never question their Satanic masters.
That’s insane....supply and demand...It’ll drive prices through the roof.
Screw and harass farmers right when the Russian-Ukraine war is putting a crunch on food supplies world wide —— NEVER let a crisis go to waste.
Canidiots. In 10 years we will have an immigrant crisis from the north as well
Weird Al - Canadian Idiot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_TfBbR6L0M
What a bunch of hooey.
They are simply trying to starve us out. There is no justification for restricting nitrogen fertilizer use as a means to address “climate change”.
Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and Vancouver will elect him again over the lives of every other Canadian
My dentist told me that nitrous oxide is no laughing matter.
Global Warming Insanity but the Ultimate Insanity will be exterminating 6 billion people
I for one am looking forward to my $20 loaf of bread when I can get one.
Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and Vancouver will elect him again over the lives of every other Canadian
Maybe its time for the farmers to block food shipments to those cities.
Wait until Trudeau finds out that nitrogen falls from the sky by way of rain during thunderstorms.
Food hoarding, Trueshit will say.
Then he will confiscate it.
There are no property rights in Canada.
There’s that 2030 date again
So you don’t think that fertilizer ban is coming here? You might want to re-evaluate that.
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