Imagine this. Invest a few hours to watch “.Juice: Power, Politics, and the Power Grid” is a great new documentary produced by Robert Bryce and Tyson Culver.
This is a documentary that advocates for greater use of nuclear energy, but also speaks positively about the need to continue using natural gas and coal to maintain a stable energy grid.Or you read excellent book The Future of Fossils, by author Alex Epstein, proposes that oil, natural gas, and coal will play a key role in the world’s energy mix into the future.
But I woke up the next morning to find that these three men had been arrested and charged with, well, saying nice things about fossil fuels. (Related: David Blackmon: Globalist elites are hurting in war over fossil fuels)
Please don’t laugh. If one Canadian MP gets his way, it will become law in the Great White North. On Monday, Timmins-James Bay MP Charlie Angus introduced a bill that would make it criminal for people to make positive statements about oil, natural gas or coal, even if they are clearly true. “Advertising fossil fuels, fossil fuel-related brand elements, or fossil fuel production would be prohibited,” the bill reads in part.
of The Toronto Sun reported. This week Mr Angus repeatedly promised Western governments would treat the oil, gas and coal industries in the same way they went after big tobacco companies in the 1990s. The Liberal lawmaker from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s New Democratic Party argued his bill was meant to stop the spread of these fossil fuel lies. The climate movement has done everything it can to turn itself into a global boogeyman, blaming all environmental problems and climate ills.
“The Big Tobacco moment for Big Oil has finally arrived. We need to prioritize human health over the lies of the oil sector,” Angus told the House of Commons on Monday.
So Angus says the bill aims to “stop the oil industry from spreading falsehoods,” but in reality, the bill is aimed at “stopping the spread of falsehoods by the oil industry,” when in fact it is aimed at “fossil fuels, fossil fuel-related brand elements, or petroleum It aims to make it a crime to promote the production of products.” It’s fossil fuel. ” The actual language of the law would make it a crime to advertise the price of gasoline on a gas station sign or run a TV ad touting an additive Chevron calls “Techron.”
The bill’s language would make it a crime for supporters like Bryce and Culver to make documentaries or for Epstein to publish a book. All of this would be considered illegal under Angus’ bill and indeed heretical to the tenets of the climate alarm religion.
In other words, actual language has nothing to do with objective truth. It has to do with banning speech that this Canadian MP doesn’t like.
For several years, the great stand-up comic Jeff Foxworthy hosted a television show called “Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?” Obviously, Councilor Angus would not have appeared on that program. That’s because any fifth-grader who has ever been on the show will immediately notice the logical contradiction between the bill’s language and the bill’s authors’ propaganda.
The simple truth is that Bryce, Culver, Epstein, and the many other advocates trying to bring some sanity to our energy and climate discussions are right about the future of fossil fuels and nuclear power. That’s it. These energy sources currently provide about 85% of the primary energy mix, and this level remains despite trillions of dollars spent on subsidies and tax breaks for wind, solar, and electric vehicles. It has remained hopelessly stable for the past quarter century.
In fact, the nuclear renaissance advocated by Bryce and Culver may even increase that rate even higher in the coming decades.
Perhaps a better approach here would be for Canada’s Congress and the American Congress to enact laws that would make it a crime for MPs or MPs to spread falsehoods about the bills they are trying to pass.
That would be a real public service, which of course means that could never happen.
David Blackmon is an energy writer and consultant based in Texas. He spent his 40 years in the oil and gas business, specializing in public policy and communications.
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