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.
Yes of course.
Sri Lanka is their model.
And Netherlands.
Great Reset is quickly becoming the Hard Reset.
These evil minions aren’t wasting any time pushing their tyranny.
Brandon’s handlers will quickly attempt the same. They have the EOs written and ready for him to scribble on.
Are we sure they are really people, and not demons? 😢
The catastrophists are claiming that nitrogen emissions (emitted into the nitrogen-based atmosphere, that is) account for 7% of greenhouse gas production. You’d think (or hope) that, since this is related to our food production, this would be the LAST 7% they’d go after.
They have reduced exploration, recovery, refining and transportation of oil.
They have banned new federal leases and offshore leases.
They are insisting on impractical, unreliable, toxic, and high-cost windmills and solar cells.
They have completely erased our southern border and allow millions of invaders in and provide them with generous subsidies and benefits.
Great video!
Yeah, strange YouTube name and some salty language, but spot on! He also has some opinions on Canadian gun control.
I have always wondered if the West fertilizer plant explosion here in Texas was a globalist action.
But, that's just it -- they're trying to collapse the global food supply by shutting down the industrialized commercialization of the Haber-Bosch process. I wonder where Klaus is going to host his fancy dinner parties in the near future when billions of hungry people will be actively seeking to eat him.
(Sri Lanka is their model.)
Apparently
(It is the intended destruction of western civilization.)
I wish I could disagree.
It is incredible and shocking to watch it in real time.
I would say, there’s a better than even chance it was. How about all those food processing plants? How many of them now? 8 or 10?
Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action. (Goldfinger)
I believe the deliberate starvation of the people is exactly what the scum sucking dirt bags of the world want, since population reduction is their goal. I heard nothing is being imported into Sri Lanka these days. A famous individual once told me, hungry people are angry people. The people of Sri Lanka, may very well all starve to death, but they have proved already, they are angry, and they aren’t going quietly into the night. They ran their President off, and were drinking the President’s wine, in his living room. I think when millions and millions of hungry Americans wake up to this fact, they aren’t going quietly into the night either.
we need to cut the head of the snake and this all dies
Young Castro learned a lot from his said father keep the foot on their neck.
I feel sorry for Canadians. They have something very akin to the third Reich evolving in Canada.
If you control the food, you control the people
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