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.
With all due respect — What Trudeau wants to limit are nitrous oxide emissions (from using synthetic fertilizer) into the atmosphere. The claim is that nitrous oxide is far more powerful than CO2 in producing global warming. Scaring people about an evil air “pollutant” called CO2 was not enough. Now everyone must be scared - paranoid about nitrous oxide “pollutant” from farmer’s fertilizer, and cripple their food production.
Sri Lanka is looking like the first test case.
Shortages and starvation are the PLAN.
10 years? Ha! More like 10 MONTHS! On more than one occasion when you still had a man for a President, not that senile, crooked lech that you now have, I wrote that PDJT needs to build also build a fence on your Northern border.
Only God can stop that SOB dictator True-dolt from TOTALLY destroying this country! He’s 90% of the way there, already! I doubt that AB and SK would secede from PRC (Politically Repressive Canada), though in a recent poll, 33% said ‘Yes’. SK is not far behind, at 28%. This change may bump it briefly to 40& in AB.
How do farmers pay their loans with 30% less production???
(This is a planned and orchestrated famine)
I agree
Add in Satan’s anti-messiah, disease and war and you’ve got the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
I have never heard of it either, friends either. This is new and appears to be fabricated... near as I can tell.
I estimate the world will lose over 3-1/2 billion in the 7 years.
Which is beyond alarming 😳😲🥺
✝️🙏🛐
The UK hasn’t been able to feed itself for centuries. They’ve had to import food since the 1700s. Now they’ll just have to import 30% more.
So starving the third world is the latest globalist sport?
Yep... that’s what they always say. Then do.
And with the full support of the masses. Who starve anyway.
It’s a good con. Really works well on humans.
That’s weird. Netherlands is claiming it gets into the water and there is some truth to that but like I said, it’s not from cattle farms which is much of what they want to get rid of.
It’s all a bunch of unicorn manure.
I kind of understand how the Parliamentary system works. But I ask, in my ignorance, does the Canadian form of government give the PM/Parliament the power to tell Canadian farmers how much or what kind of fertilizer they can use on their farms?
Hopefully the Russians, free from these NUTCASE leaders, are able to make up the difference.
Same for Ukraine, assuming Russia wins control over those areas. (otherwise they’ll have to answer to the same Globalists as in Canada/Europe/US)
Schwab toadie.
They don't and that's the point of this. The elites have openly admitted in Holland that the goal is to get farmers to quit farming.
Actual pollution or GlobalClimateWarmingChange are irrelevant. Just leverage for efficient gaslighting.
I think their plan is clear; completely collapse economies around the world and then blame it as a ‘failure of capitalism’. Most people will not see that it was orchestrated.
The mobs burned the houses of >3 dozen government officials in Sri Lanka, IIRC.
This needs to be better known here and in Canada.
And then buy up the land for pennies on the dollar.
Gonna have to get more chickens to produce more fertilizer. Worth more than the eggs.
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