Moratorum on Alberta projects means a loss of jobs to other provinces
By Lethbridge Herald on August 16, 2023.
Editor:
I read in the Lethbridge Herald (Aug. 4) that Danielle Smith’s United Conservative government is pausing all approvals for new renewable energy projects due to rural and “environmental” concerns. Not mentioned, this is also likely at the behest of the fossil fuel industry. Nathan Neudorf, Lethbridge East MLA and Minister for Affordability and Utilities, was apparently unable to meet with the Renewable Energy Association before making the announcement.
This avoidance of the Association was apparently due to “scheduling problems”. If so, I doubt Nathan Neudorf could schedule his way out of a wet paper bag. How is it possible in the midst of climate change that renewable energy has an Albertan moratorium placed on it. This will mean a loss of investment and jobs to other provinces. Danielle Smith, Nathan Neudorf and other sycophantic (servile) supporters of the fossil fuel industry need to be held in the contempt they deserve!
Robert King-Brown
Lethbridge
6-5
Indeed!
While I 100% disagree with the ucp’s moratorium on new solar and wind development in Alberta I believe we need regulations on where and how this expands. The reclamation costs for windmills and solar are smaller than fossil fuel extraction sites but they do exist nonetheless and with it being built on privately held land there are no regulations ensuring that it will be covered. Imagine if an oil well was built now without those regulations? There would be an uproar and rightfully so. There are studies predicting 347,000 acres of agricultural land lost to renewable energy projects over the next 30 years and that amount is growing as the industry grows. The government has no duty to inform industry on their decisions, it would be nice but not required. Bad decision on the part of the ucp but the transition will continue with or without us.
Baaa – Baaa – Baaa! Another sheep that believes that we will make a big difference by killing out oil and gas industry, with no other major revenues in Canada to replace it. You ignore the fact that solar and wind energy creates a much bigger carbon footprint than oil and gas, but who cares right, because the billionaires who are filling their bank accounts by creating hysteria are laughing at all the fools.
We are addicted to oil and gas and cannot be weined off for at least 30 years or the world will grind to a halt.
Canada only emits 1.6% (that is 1 point 6 percent) of the world GHG’s and if they dramatically slashed from all sourcess, could only bring that down to maybe 1%. You and your sheep who have fallen into the hype that Canada is the worst emitter in the world, by billionaire paid non-profits to spread the hype and create hysteria are weak minded and are responsible for destroying one of the major revenue generators in Canada.
Warren Buffet’s companies own Alta Link ( the major electrical transmission company in Alberta) and several other major green energy projects in Alberta. Foreign investors are once again trying to dominate and run our green energy projects, just as they did our oil and gas industry, taking all of the resources, while throwing us crumbs!
Warren Buffet, through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), The Vanguard Group, along with Bill Gates have major investments in both CN Rail and CP Rail and at one point Bill Gates was the major shareholder of CN Rail. At the same time some of the Bill and Melinda Gates non-profits were funding protests against pipelines. Why does that matter? Maybe because the rail companies were making huge revenues transporting those oil and gas products which would be in those pipelines!
There is so much you ignore while being brainwashed by the those who spread disinformation to hype people!
Canada can do little to impact climate change. We should be focused on working with other countries who are major emitters to help them reduce their GHG emissions, such as China, India, the Saudi’s for the biggest reduction.
China emits over 30% of the world GHG’s! That is over thirty percent!
People like you don’t want to reduce GHG’s in the world. If you did you would focus on where the biggest impacts could be made, not the smallest.
China, the US and Russia emit almost 60% of the world GHG’s and you pick on Canada!
your response presents largely as a fossil in its own right. there is a lot of adversity inundating the planet, and the brunt of it is indeed human caused. we have run roughshod over pretty much everything, much of our impact taking place in a very tiny time frame…like, the last 100 years and less. we have upset the balance of this system that we depend upon for life forms to exist. perhaps you are not aware of the reality of homeostasis, but it exists and the planet, as mighty a life as it is, is capable of shredding us unmercifully so as to regain its needed balance. somehow, folks such as yourself seem dogged in their belief that the “mc-economy”, “mc-jobs”, and above all, “mc-oil” are more important than an intelligent big picture. get your big truck, and big power boat, and suv, and everything else you can tug along, and not think at all about polluting some water system, or running over a natrual space…vroom vroom! yahoo! it is, after all, all about number one and whatever number one’s money can buy, and little to naught about decency and sustainability.