Who'da thunk it eh?
Penticton is about 230 miles to our Northeast. From the Penticton Western News comes this wonderful rant:
Taxpayers burned by carbon trust
"Let all men know how empty and worthless is the power of kings. For there is none worthy of the name but God, whom heaven, earth and sea obey"
King Canute, in an effort to demonstrate his mortality, is said to have commanded the tides to go out, even as the tides come in. He knew he was only human and had no more power over nature than did his sycophant supporters.
Our leaders, like Canute, cannot control nature, but we stand idly by while they waste billions of our tax dollars in an attempt to do just that.
There has not been, in recent times, a better vehicle for government and big business to conspire to steal tax dollars, than 'climate change'.
Anyone who believes in the notion of CO2-induced climate change is willfully ignorant of observed science. Anyone who believes that it is 'big oil' reaping billions as they destroy the climate is reality challenged. The opposite is the case, as big energy colludes with government and big green groups to profit from climate change at the expense of taxpayers.
The recent questionable judgment associated with the operation and administration of the Pacific Carbon Trust should be all we need to demand the government get out of the climate change business. The PCT was set up as a Crown corporation, expressly to use taxpayer money to buy carbon offsets. Carbon offsets are like papal indulgences, absolving corporations' sins of 'emitting carbon' on one hand, by financing 'carbon reduction' projects that 'offset' carbon dioxide being emitted on the other. These projects can include forests, or grassland.
Papal indulgences indeed. More at the site. This is so true -- we are taking money from Schools and Medical facilities and Highway repair and upgrading our infrastructure all in the name of a colorless gas that makes our crops and marine life grow better.
