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.
(Food hoarding, Justin will say.
Then he will confiscate it.)
Pinging Daniel1212 - everyone better read the script from the old cheesey-looking movie because it’s pretty much going to be almost a docu drama for real life.
Since I am totally cynical of the government, and don’t usually believe anything they say, I am sure this is all BS.
You are probably right, it’s a deliberate attempt to starve millions to death. The elites are making their move, and we still don’t know who Ray Epps is.
Don’t do it....😜
This is a good example of why we are losing.
The problem is not that it's an "arbitrary goal".
The problem is that you have to be retarded or emotionally disturbed to believe one word of the anthropogenic climate change nonsense, and people who want to interfere with production of food, or worse, who want to "dim the sun" are genocidal maniacs who need to be rounded up and stopped before they kill billions.
This is the world that the Lord has made - let us rejoice and be glad.
“Land...land...land...”
That's not why it's insane.
PING!
Without the support of the provinces, this whole thing is likely to sink fast. Already, his poll numbers are dropping behind the Conservatives, even though they have yet to select a new leader.
Maybe Joebama was waiting for Trudeau before he makes his move. The Netherlands, Ireland, and now Canada. Same Plot.
(They are simply trying to starve us out.)
Wish there was some other conclusion but they’re beyond derelict
Bingo. The oligarchs want all the land.
I get multiple calls in Asian accents every day, asking to buy my house.
We heard all that last time, and yet he’s still there.
This is a planned and orchestrated famine. The world is going to standby and permit mass starvation. It may even exceed Mao and Stalin’s masterpieces of suffering.
Harrumph!!!!!
It’s the Communist NDP keeping him in power
That, and such things as “we’re really concerned” and “profoundly disappointed.” What about “outraged” or “incensed?” How about a JRB, Jr.-style “We can’t put up with this, for God’s sake?”
At least let me.
I don’t cause my trouble or take up much space.
That corner in your house is all I need.
If Farmer A wants to buy a certain number of tons of fertilizer from Company B, where does any national leader of an allegedly free country get off in interfering with that contractual relationship? That is the crux of the problem, that political leaders who supposedly represent the people can tell the people what to do. That’s not the way it supposed to be, they are supposed to serve the people, and if two commercial actors wish to engage in some kind of a relationship, serving the people means staying the hell out of the transaction.
Things like this are way outside a Prime Minister’s job description so he just adding it
I believe that is exactly what the population reduction maniacs want to do. They are likely to have a fight on their hands (Sri Lanka) I don’t even think the Biblical tribulation will kill that many.
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