24 Replies to “Dead Rose Country”

  1. So you get a tiny bit of the massive carbon tax back as free light bulbs.Alberta you are so screwed and I fear BC may well be next god help us all.

  4. Canada is screwed. there are far more of them, meaning stupid socialists, than us.

  5. Watersaving devices… you mean those prohibitively expensive add-ons for your faucet? Nothing more than a bunch of overpriced sieves reducing flow -i.e. efficiency (read: time) when rinsing. … next, women need short hair, otherwise you either go crazy plus need MORE not less water, more time and get dandruff from all the remaining shampoo and stuff. Oh hey, short hair saves water! Yay! Cut it all off. Better still, shave. Back to the faucet thing: Homes here sometimes come fully equipped with this junk. I pry it all out the moment I move in. Best thing I encountered are showers and bath tubs equipped with it… took me a while at first to figure out why it took 30 minutes to fill a tub! On top the reduced flow made all our piping and faucets accumulate even more calcium deposits up to the point where you’d get no more than 4-5 liter per minute… happy washing anything. 🙂

  6. I installed a programmable thermostat years ago and went to energy efficient lighting to cut costs. The sad part is that the savings I realized on using less energy was erased many times over by the increase in service fees.

  7. Canada is screwed not just Alberta.
    Canada generates a huge portion of its exports from commodities. This income can be cyclical and the margin of profit earned varies. Yet, knowing this, Canadian governments have allowed a national and provincial debt that exceeds the USA on a per capita basis. So, yes, we are a low income earner living in a very expensive house.
    How do we deal with that? Many, like Ontario turn their backs, and even start a minimum income experiment. Unbelievable. Our most recent federal election did not even debate the reality of the Canadian experience. To do so would acknowledge the incredibly weak trade relationship that Canada has with the USA. The $ size of that relationship is NOT necessarily a strength. It was incumbent on Canada to diversify their exports in an attempt to actually strengthen Canada’s negotiating position with the USA. Because of Canada’s debt and huge dependence on the USA for trade Canada has not strong position.
    Canada had to massive projects which could have fundamentally changed this relationship. They were LNG and Oil exports from the west coast of B.C. The capital investment would have been in the 100’s of billions of dollars. These two opportunities were identified during the Harper government. That government supported the projects but failed massively in explaining what they meant to Canada. The fallout? Canada continues to subsidize USA crude use by not receiving world price. A process which costs Canadians 10’s of billions of $’s a year. The LNG opportunity has moved on. Surprise! Next year the USA will become the largest LNG producer in the world! Yes the Americans are eating our dinner.
    At some point Canada has to grow up. Recognize that although the USA is a great friend and ally that national imperatives do not always coincide. It is in the USA’s interest to keep Canada as a source of cheap materials. It is in the USA’s interests to keep Canada as indebted as it can. This reality will likely come to a head over the fight for sovereignty in the Artic. For military and economic reasons the USA will wants as much direct control over this territory as it can get. Canada is in a very weak position to defend claims against both the USA and Russia. Why should we expect anything different.
    Western Canada has allowed foreign money to influence the environmental movement that has stunted national interest. It has allowed eastern Canadian interests to blame their economic decline on a ‘petro dollar’ strength that has made their exports to expensive. There is unity in Canada when it comes to spending the largess it produces but little or no responsibility is taken in mature governance.

  8. Sadly once you bring garbage like this in the voters expect it to remain.
    If another government removes any of the incentives to save yourself money it will be seen as heartless and racist or anti-science or whatever.
    When it is removed it has to be done with a PR campaign along the lines of this:
    “Look, you’re not stupid. We don’t need to pay you to do things that save yourself money. Responsible adults should be able to figure out that saving money is a good thing without someone from the government giving them a cookie to do it. And money doesn’t grow on trees”

  9. I Have been through this Eco-BULLSHIT once already in Ontario…..and it goes exactly like what you are seeing now.
    All of Alberta will start to replace their “inefficient” appliances and light bulbs and reduce their energy usage. Then the Utilities, seeing their revenue drop via reduced usage will increase prices.! And in 2-3 years you are not saving a damned thing. The consumer does not win in this ECO- Nazi game…but the Politicians can say “see, by generating less electricity we are reducing our emissions.” rah rah – blah blah.
    So I now ask this: How will this BS game work when you have 4 million EV’s on the Road here in Alberta…HUH.?? Are you going to accept the fact that …
    A: Wind Towers and Solar BS will not come close to providing baseload power.
    B: That the only way to Generate said required electricity will by Via NUCLEAR (if its to be “Clean”… or
    C: That you need to build more Fossil Fuel burning generation.
    Answer me that you dumb marxist twat…

  10. I have been using a “red neck” clothes dryer for many years … where’s my retroactive rebate for saving Notley all that energy over all those years??

  11. Nutley approved Corporations.
    Like Obamba approved “energy efficient window” companies, dig deep enough and you see heavy personal investments and political kickbacks.
    When can the Public expect Ms. Nutley to release her personal investment portfolio Mr. Speaker?

  12. Why are washboards not included in the rebate program? I guess they do not want us to go down to the river to wash our clothes.
    How many times will governments keep peddling this nonsense? Remember the One Tonne Challenge? Does anyone really believe that changing a few light bulbs, recycling some newsprint and putting in low-flow or low-flush plumbing will make any difference? The truth is unless you spend thousands of dollars for a new hybrid, electric, or fuel-efficient vehicle and then spend thousands more for new appliances, you will not have a noticeable effect on the environment. And then you have to disregard the emissions produced by manufacturing the new accoutrements and recycling the old ones. And then the government will insult us by calling these “green jobs”.

  13. There is a “small problem” with “conserving energy” when it comes to electricity.
    The entire system is continually debt financed and the debt taken on is based on
    building, generating, and maintaining at the most efficient economies of scale.
    So, as old bond issues are being paid off and new ones brought to market, if the
    rate of power consumption steadily drops then revenue losses will occur. Then
    power prices must go up to cover the shortfall caused by conserving electricity.
    There is no free lunch.
    There is no free lunch.
    Wynne and the rest know that but they don’t care.

  14. Notley should make it illegal to drive a pickup truck in Alberta, rather than just unaffordable.

  15. “For military and economic reasons the USA will wants as much direct control over this territory [the Arctic] as it can get.”
    In no small part because we appear totally disinclined to ante up and properly defend our sovereignty there ourselves.
    We are a wealthy country of almost 36 million people with a regular military of perhaps 68,000 personnel on a good day (and that’s everyone: navy, army, air force).
    Surely an appropriately-equipped regular armed forces of 100,000 would not be too much to strive for?
    (Yeah, yeah I know. Dream on. We’re too busy becoming Pothead Nation to bother with trivialities such as defending our territorial sovereignty.)

  16. JJM >
    “Surely an appropriately-equipped regular armed forces of 100,000 would not be too much to strive for?”
    I agree 100%, – BUT –
    Of course defending our borders militarily today is pretty useless with our Open Borders that have allowed any political, economic, or resource seeking enemy full access to Canada.
    China buys all the commercial & residential resources, including farmland that it wants, Islam and other Third World squatters rape our Social systems. Canada’s first line of defense should have always started with it’s borders, it’s nearly too late for that now.
    China, Russia, Iran, NK, Pakistan or whoever wishes, has had decades to place as many military/ espionage “assets” within Canada and the US as they will ever need in the event of military hostilities. They would have the ability to create enough “domestic terrorism” or insurgent type actions than fleets of B52 bombers, or 10,000 extra troops sitting in the Artic could defend.
    Just because we don’t see them doesn’t mean they’re not there. From Chinatowns in every major city to Little Mosques on the prairie, they’re already in.
    http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/06/22/chinese-buy-up-canada-farms-is-beijing-behind-it.html

  17. it all reminds me of the billboards featuring the professor fruitfly exhorting us to switch to those coily fluorescent lite bulbs.
    the ones that fail to come on as the temperature plummets.
    the ones that cannot be used with a dimmer and thus save energy.
    the ones requiring special handling for disposal due to mercury content.
    the ones that give off that dreadful artificial wave length making everyone look pale and sickly.
    etc etc.

  19. “Majority of oil sands ownership and profits are foreign, says analysis”
    http://business.financialpost.com/news/majority-of-oil-sands-ownership-and-profits-are-foreign-says-analysis
    “No Canadian hires for four years at Chinese-owned B.C. mine”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-business/asian-pacific-business/no-canadian-hires-for-four-years-at-chinese-owned-bc-mine/article6281852/
    There’s no pattern here, no, no, no.

  20. Shshshsh… not. We’ve already had that idea. I don’t need it to come around again.

  21. Oh….and I forgot to mention, the next Incentive that our Benevolent NDP will come with is:…..Drum Roll…………
    SMART Meters. Yup…Bet on it.
    These insidious little pces of tech will cost approximately $1000.00 EACH.
    They will work via BlueTooth and as such your meter will be read by one of those Google Earth Type Vehicles…and in the process eliminate some 90% of the Meter Reading jobs in the Province…(I wonder what the Union will have to say bout that.??)
    And that cost BTW will be one borne by ALL Albertans one way or another.
    But the real nasty thing about them is that they will be introduced as a way to SAVE all of us money…uhuh. The idea being that they will want you to already have timers installed on your: Dishwasher, Clothes Dryer and Washing Machine…so that you can take “Advantage” of the lower prices from 11PM to 7AM
    Now having said that, this does not mean they are going to Lower the price for that time period, what they will do is this:
    From 7:00 AM – 9:30 AM. High Price of say $ 0.15 cents / kw hr
    From 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM Mid day price of 0.12 cents per kw/hr
    From 3:30 PM – 11:00 PM High Price of 0.15 cents per kw/hr.
    From 11PM to 7:AM … only then will you pay your “normal” electricity price (t current rates), of say 8-9Cents per kw/hr.
    Marxist ECO BULLSHIT to get you to do your laundry and dishes at 3:30 AM.
    and supposedly “save” the planet while doing so.
    Believe it folks…this is the Gerald Butts save Gaiea Plan….and that dumb twat in Edm will institute it for certain….as did the Libernazi’s in Ontario.

  22. The NDP is conditioning all the Folks to limited electrical power. Yes first the cost will go sky high, like Ontario, but then Alberta will not have energy available at any price. This is stage 4 of the global plan to destroy economic development…Flat line the system…
    The folks will need to understand that they will have no available energy, or option.

  23. City of Calgary (Enmax) has been pushing this for a while. They employed some “installer” outfit to pester home owners to allow some dude into their home, scope it out for “stuff” & report back, while installing their new meters….’cause the old ones were analog & “might not be accurate”, they told me. The digital ones are for some single dude to drive around the block with the meter reader in the cab doing what he/she used to do by walking. Teh City still gave out over “inflation” wage raises to these CUPE troops, despite the fiscal constraints that 20-30% of down town is vacant, office-wise.
    They sent 3 letters with the last one headlining “last warning”. So, I called them & asked what’s the deal on “last warning”, they come by at 3 AM, bust my door down & install over my dead body? Last I heard from them. That was 3 years ago. They keep jacking our recycle fees to stash stuff they can’t get rid of in piles, out of sight from prying eyes….like in the dump where it all went before.
    The leaks in their own street level lines should be a bigger concern. Part of the hill I’m sitting on is starting to crack & move downhill & the pavement is all lumpy from water sags, sewer or potable, I suspect.

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