Daily Archives: March 30, 2025
Waste of the Day: Over $1 Billion for Foreign Shrimp
The U.S. contributed to over $1 billion spent promoting shrimp farming in foreign countries from 1998 to 2023, which members of Congress say may have violated a federal law protecting American industries from overseas competition. The money came from various United Nations agencies that the U.S. helps fund, including the Food and Agriculture Organization and the International Finance Corporation, according to the Southern Shrimp Alliance, an advocacy group representing American fishermen. More than $500 million went to companies in Ecuador. The Philippines, China, India and Indonesia each received more than $100 million. Peru, Mexico, Belize and other nations in Latin America and Southeast Asia received funds as well. more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 13:49
The offshore wind debate could influence this federal election and it’s already an ‘absolute blood-fest’
“Get out of our town, Albo!” the man yelled. “We don’t want your wind farms!”
The Illawarra, on the NSW south coast, can be hostile territory for Australian politicians. In 1939, Robert Menzies was booed by thousands of placard-waving locals as police escorted him down the Bulli Pass to meet striking waterside workers in Wollongong. Fast forward to 2025 and it was Anthony Albanese’s turn to feel the heat down near the steelworks. During a February press conference announcing his new candidate for Whitlam, he copped a gobful from a man dressed in a tan shirt and black shorts. “Get out of our town, Albo!” the man yelled. “We don’t want your wind farms!” That protester was financial adviser Alex O’Brien, who is not just another local resident. Mr. O’Brien is, in fact, president of a not-for-profit association called Responsible Future (Illawarra Chapter) or RFI, whose purpose is to tank Labor’s proposed offshore wind project in the Illawarra. more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 10:53
Already hit by China, Nova Scotia’s seafood sector braces for U.S. tariffs next week
Stewart Lamont, managing director of Tangier Lobster Company Ltd., on Nova Scotia’s eastern shore, said the lobster sector is “incredibly anxious” as it waits to see how prices are affected. Lamont’s company exports live lobster to 13 countries around the world. “People are nervous,” he said in an interview Friday. “We have received more calls than normal from dealers on whether we would be interested in buying lobster from them this spring.” Meanwhile, Osborne Burke, general manager of Cape Breton-based seafood processor Victoria Co-operative Fisheries Ltd., said the pending U.S. tariffs are particularly concerning to the crab fishery because of the heavy reliance on the market south of the border. more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 08:02
Beach Town Poised to Use Green Left’s Favorite Legal Strategy Against Massive Offshore Wind Project
The town of Nantucket, Massachusetts looks set to use one of the green left’s go-to legal strategies against a massive offshore wind farm supported by liberal environmentalists. Environmental groups have used “sue and settle” tactics — wherein plaintiffs sue an aligned administration to kill a disfavored project, which the aligned administration effectively does via settlement — for decades to impede infrastructure projects they oppose. Now, Nantucket is suing the Trump administration and alleging that key procedural laws were not followed in Biden-era approvals for the massive SouthCoast wind farm off the island’s coast, teeing up a potential “sue and settle” situation that could derail a major project supported by the green left. more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 06:44
