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[–] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This transition had been known to be nessecary for decades, and known to Alberta that Trudeau would act on it since Trudeau won government in 2015. Alberta squandered its time and money and wants us to beleive its the victim now. Poor persecuted Alberta.

[–] dgmib@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is the same premier that declared a moratorium on new grid scale solar and wind farms. Alberta has some of the most optimal conditions in Canada for solar power and we can’t build it, because….

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This is why we need to stop the fear-mongering about nuclear power

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

While the CANDU heavy-water plants that power half of Ontario have proven themselves safe, they're slow and expensive to build (and not cheap to operate, either). If Alberta started building one right now, it would be years before they would see any benefit. Hard to make that work in the current political climate.

Other plant types are, by my understanding, less safe, less proven, or continually five years in the future.

[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

Politicians are punished if proactive and praised (and re-elected) if reactive.

Look at the Carbon tax now. When the equator is a no-mans-land and tornadoes are the norm, Carbon tax will seem like a "why didn't you do it back then" idea.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

The new plants are smaller, safer and quicker to build, aren't they?

[–] mPony@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

they used the phrase "freeze in the dark" again, eh? Man they know how to hold on to a grudge for well over a generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Energy_Program#Legacy_and_Western_alienation

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 1 points 2 years ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


In white text on black boards, messages that were both visually and rhetorically stark flanked Premier Danielle Smith last fall as she launched a big advertising campaign against Ottawa's clean electricity regulations.

Cabinet ministers played up the fact wind and solar power didn't come through in last weekend's deep freeze, and when Smith returns from vacation next week she might take some more whacks at that UCP whipping post.

Inflammatory rhetoric on either the pro or con side of net zero can fuel headlines and stoke political bases, but it won't power Alberta's energy-hungry homes and cities, now or in the future.

The province had already begun work on a potential redesign of its regulated private market system when the cold snap rattled its grid more than similarly shivering Saskatchewan and British Columbia, which could both export some extra juice to Alberta.

He noted that the direct risk of this happening will be greatly diminished later this year when several massive gas plants come online, largely to replace the soon-to-be-eliminated (and much dirtier) coal-powered generators.

That could come with help from the new natural gas plants, but also the wind turbines and solar panels that produce in much greater abundance during longer days and gustier warm months.


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