The Bush/Cheney undead are still stalking the land, and on the global warming issue they've sunk their fangs into fresh blood.

Continuing from the Bush government's suppression of the work of its own climate scientists, propaganda and befuddlement go from strength to strength.

Driven by U.S. right-wing politics and polluting-industry money, they've unnerved scientists with their tactics to the point that some of them have apparently suppressed data -- or thought of doing so -- rather than feed it into this engine of political disinformation, in the now famous University of East Anglia emails episode.

Three points to bring the picture into focus.

Chalk this up as one of those big "I told you so" moments for the anti-nuke lobby and a symbol of the shifting power dynamics in energy politics unfolding on both sides of the border.

Energy Minister George Smitherman announced on June 29 that the cost of building two new reactors at Darlington was officially billions too high to consider without a federal bailout.

That was bad news for the troubled Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, which had "won" the bidding process, and for nuclear stakeholders around the world whose various problem children (numerous other cancelled projects and cost overruns) are also garnering less than glowing investment ratings in the new global credit environment.

The tar and Canada's line in the sands have exploded this week in an uncanny combination of hugely high-profile political and economic events on both sides of the border.

So far on the energy scorecard, it looks like the U.S. is batting 1,000, Canada near zero. And sadly or happily, that's a very, very good thing.

With the new political reality south of the border rocking out so fast, it's hard to keep tabs. The latest and greatest is Obama's cap-and-trade budget, sent to Congress late last week.