Tag: power

REPLAY: Naval Statecraft and Power in the 21st Century: Heritage Foundation Panel Discussion

The Heritage Foundation hosts a panel discussion on “Naval Statecraft and Power in the 21st Century” on May 16. Director of Heritage Foundation’s Center for National Defense Tom Spoehr moderates a conversation with 77th Secretary of the Navy Kenneth Braithwaite and Brent Sadler, senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation and author of “U.S. Naval…


Canadian Environment Minister Threatens Criminal Sanctions Against Coal-Burning Provinces

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe recently said the province will continue to use its three coal plants until the end of their lives, beyond the 2030 federal deadline for phasing out coal. Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said Wednesday that would be illegal. “We’ve regulated the ban on coal through CEPA [Canadian Environmental Protection Act], which is…


Xi Jinping: With Unlimited Power Comes Unlimited Challenge

Commentary Xi Jinping has amassed a greater concentration of power than Mao Zedong, and has greater power to suppress domestic and foreign opponents than any Chinese leader in history. And yet the threat to his—and the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP)—ability to retain power faces challenges of an enormity and imminence that Mao never knew. These…


Wind Power Is UK’s Biggest Electricity Source for 1st Time

Wind turbines have generated more electricity than gas for the first time in the UK, figures show. Research from Imperial College London reveals almost a third, or 32.4 percent, of the country’s electricity was generated by on and offshore wind farms in the first quarter of the year. Gas-fired powered stations delivered 31.7 percent. The…


Energy Operator Runs From Farmers Protest Over Controversial Powerline Projects

The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has stood by its decision to be absent from a meeting in Western Victoria, where residents and farmers protested power lines being built on local farms. The meeting came after a convoy of tractors and utes rolled into the streets of St Arnaud on Monday to fight against the VNI-West…


2 Dead, Over a Million Without Power After Ice Storm Hits Canada

OTTAWA—Two people died and more than a million were without power on Thursday after an ice storm hit Canada’s two most-populated provinces ahead of a holiday weekend, bringing freezing rain and strong winds that toppled trees and weighed down power lines. Just under a million people did not have power in Quebec and about 110,000…


The Return to a Premodern State

Commentary Throughout these three most difficult years of our lives, many friends have predicted that there would be justice on the other side. The courts will speak out. Fairness and truth will prevail. The people who have done these deeds—lockdowns, mandatory face coverings, forced medicines we don’t need and which are often harmful—won’t get away…


California Residents Face Tragedy and Power Outages in Wake of Brutal Bomb Cyclone

Officials in California have reported at least five storm-related deaths while thousands are still without power after a bomb cyclone hit the San Francisco Bay area on Tuesday, March 21, bringing with it heavy rains, winds of up to 90 mph, and at least one tornado. One person was killed in Walnut Creek, a city in Contra…


Northeast Winter Storm Shuts Schools, Knocks Out Power

The start of a winter storm with heavy, wet snow caused a plane to slide off the runway and led to hundreds of school closings, canceled flights and thousands of power outages in parts of the Northeast on Tuesday. The storm’s path included parts of New England, upstate New York, northeastern Pennsylvania, and northern New…


LIVE Feb. 25, 8 AM ET: Is Climate Change or Policy the True Issue? 15th ICCC Keynote Speech on Manipulated Climate Change by Marc Morano

Is climate change or climate policy the real issue? Experts, advocates, and common sense politicians give their thoughts and ideas at the 15th International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC) held by the Heartland Institute in Orlando, Florida. Founder and publisher of ClimateDepot.com Marc Morano will talk about how global elites use fears about the climate…