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.
Justin TruCastro creating starvation
I keep telling people that electing idiots is beyond dangerous
🛐🙏✝️
Communists are really good at solving imaginary problems. Real problems are their weakness.
Is he gonna harvest it?
(“The Trudeau government has apparently moved on from their attack on the oil and gas industry and set their sights on Saskatchewan farmers.”)
Perhaps Justin TruCastro is a godless reprobate Globalist moron trying to bring on the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
How long beforethe western provinces decide to leave Canada and either form their own country or join red America?
The left fired healthcare workers, first responders and airline pilots during the COVID lockdowns.
They defunded law enforcement.
They created a woke military.
They have indoctrinated our children in the educational system.
And they have stolen our elections.
Now they’re going after the farmers.
I’m not sure there any institutions left to attack.
We don’t have a Posse Comitatus Act in our country.
Canada is quite literally a fascist country.
I do not doubt that he will hire foreigners as faithful soldiers to do his bidding.
Looks like Liberal Canada is about to have a very bad case of "bad luck."
so the Earth is not a sealed package and it only has a certain amount of A , B and C and these amounts move around but never increase ?
Less than that, i'd wager. Given how socialist many Canadians are, I think I would rather have Mexicans.
(That’s insane....supply and demand...It’ll drive prices through the roof.)
Maybe that’s the plan....🤔
Sri Lanka here we come.
How much did they reduce fertilizer in Sri Lanka?
Are they trying to titrate the food deficicit with different levels of initial restrictions?
What a monstrous bunch of people leftists are. What a nightmare when this spreads.
Just read something and said farmers will lose $48 billion over 8 years
It’s all about Land Snatching.
Turdoo strikes again.
Bingo!
Forget the “polite” trucker parades. They need to park their damn trucks and let the Quebec and Ontario commies starve.
and they can’t sue Trudeau for total incompetence
You got it - we have a branch office in Toronto - the people in our office love Justin Castro
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