Just one week after Texas: Buffalo Pound Water Treatment Plant renewal looks to green future
“So we’re looking at using renewable energy, specifically solar at this point in time. We’re looking at putting in 2 to 2.5 megawatts of solar power,” explained Johnson.
He said that can be scaled up in the future with more solar, wind or geothermal power.
If you wonder if this is just naive incompetence, this is the same Regina City Council that attempted to ban oil and gas advertising.
Nothing, nothing will go wrong.
Everything will work perfectly.
It’s all by design, to funnel tax dollars and transform them through green magic into libtard party donations.
Another Ego Project. They will need 190M of tax dollars from upper levels of government meaning tax dollars from other Provinces. The Municipal EGO Projects need to end and Municipalities need to be reined in, and forced to live within the constraints of the funds from the local tax payer. The one that always comes to mind is the SkyDome in Toronto. The local greasy Politicians decided that the Multi Millionaire Ball Players had to have a new Play Ground. So the tax payer was forced to build at a cost of over 600M. A few years ago after 600M wasted the Jays wanted another one. So the old SkyDome was sold off for 50M. Criminal Abuse of the Taxpayer.
Buffalo Pound has been very, very “green” (in a different way) many times in the past…
If there is a constant in nature, it is who pays the bills. Never the bright lights with trendy ideas.
In a sensible world, the Council will reject this plan. But I expect it will pass and within 4 years, there will be a realisation that it was all a terrible mistake.
If they really wanted to solve the algae problem of Buffalo Pound, they would put in windmills and aerate the oversize slough (just like my farming cousin did with his, but on a larger scale). Yes, I was a Prairie boy and all my local relatives were farmers near Macklin and Assiniboia.
“The whole plan is expected to cost about $250 million, according to Johnson. About $190 million is expected to come from higher levels of government.”
There’s the fuel.
Children.
To be fair, I’m no expert on water treatment but I would think the facilities use massive amounts of energy. Water is heavy, the treatment process (I learned as a child in public school, “aeration, filtration, sedimentation”) requires moving massive amounts of water around, that requires pumps, lots of energy. This is not exempt from steadily rising carbon taxes, so there is a perverse deliberate economic incentive for this plan. Playing these wind and solar games may well be economically justified due to evil, yes evil, federal policies that skyrocket energy cost.
So the locals will have to get used to buying bottled water during long stretches of winter when the treatment plant shuts down for lack of energy. Just another feature of your “green” future. Yep. Do with less. Get used to living like dirt farmer third worlders. Time to “get off the high horse” of our Judeo Christian white man industrial culture, eh Mr. Obama?
Average cost for solar systems in Canada is listed as $3 per watt, which means a 2.5 Megawatt station should cost 7.5 million dollars. Actually, I estimate that I could buy such a system for 1.3 million, pay 2 million to have it installed, and retire with 3.7 million in my bank account.
So where is the other 242.5 million dollars for this system going? To buy LED light bulbs? I think not.
A project that’s “been in the works for years”, and not a single dollar has been put aside for it? ALL of their proposed funding is from “other people”. And how much acreage would they need to build their solar farm? Which is so far out of the water-treatment mandate it’s not funny.
I don’t expect such clarity of thought, but Regina council needs to shut this down hard and tell these wankers to rethink this plan with a focus to minimizing capital costs to the taxpayers, instead of pushing this eco-tripe.
Who hires these fucktards?
Oh, c’mon now. It’s Regina, NDP Zentrul in Saskabush. They’re gung ho on this stuff. Been that way since the Jurassic Age.
Hey, you don’t have to tell me anything about the Regina cesspool: I’m from Saskatoon, so it’s just an article of faith, except on game day. 😀
I lived on Preston Avenue for several years, myself. So I know where you’re coming from.
how much more will this cost taxpayers, because they contract to pay extra for “green power” which allows magical green electrons to pass over their transmission lines, to the plant, while not consuming non-green electrons….
and if power authorities are allowed to create contracts for people to buy green power, why can’t they create contracts for us to buy stable power, like hydro and nuclear?
a city named Vagina , and they have a council of twats?? Now there’s the problmo , right there!
+++++/\ GYM
Unfortunately, Both Calgary and Edmonton have in the past elected groups of self serving semi-awake Aristocratic & utterly Arrogant Fucktards as well…a diSEASE that has seemingly spread throughout the Western Hemisphere.
Did anyone of these morons have a chat with the Medicine Hat council..?? NOPE.
Oh good! They are going to produce electricity when nobody needs it and the electrical utility is going to pay a premium price for it. The cost to the environment of 100% redundancy is huge unless you want to shut down when the sun doesn’t shine. Building two complete sources of power because one is intermittent is in one word – stupid.
I thought waste water processing generated methane.
Note how the idiot Saskatchewan socialist extremist politician blames other for his idiocy.
One can see how this happens when woke idiots are trying to get attention with their stupid doings.
They are completely unaware of real world, spending their time in their own heads and thinking that everybody else is like them.
The whole point of energy is labour saving. Where fossil fuels did this magnificently and allowed us to amplify work and potential profit from that work, green energy has hindered and even reversed the process. Now we have to pour labour into green technology in the way of tax money, and get much less out of it because green energy is inherently feeble and expensive compared to fossil fuels.
That’s a feature, not a bug.
In reality, the grid will supply 80 to 90% of the power for this plant so think of this aspect as an expensive shrine to green theocracy. Virtue signaling for the political psychopaths in charge.
Are Stan and Frank Koebel, the brothers responsible for Walkerton’s water disaster in Ontario still available to run the plant?
The same idiots. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/22-delegates-regina-city-council-fossil-fuel-sponsorship-1.5888469
They didn’t learn anything from the situation in Texas apparently.
The “naive incompetence” notion is one that we should abandon for good and all. This is not naive incompetence. This is deliberate theft and vandalism. These people are the mafia.
So what was SNC’s estimate anyhow? Everyone here knows they will be the Skimmers/Prime Contractors.
Perhaps they did learn something..
From Quebec.
Cause apparently having a non functional waste water treatment system,lets you just dump raw sewage into the nearest river.