In all your garble about “alternative” energy technology coming to Saskatchewan on the gentle green wings of Liberal faeries, it appears you’ve fallen victim to an embarrassing oversight.
So if you would, Mr. Dion – copy this down and post it to your caucus Energy Star fridge door;
1. Saskatchewan floats upon lakes of oil.
2. The beaches of those lakes are comprised of endless glistening dunes of coal.
3. Wafting over the scene are massive cumulous clouds of natural gas.
4. We have a population density of well under 2 persons per square km.
You see, Saskatchewan doesn’t need no stinking giant fans. We don’t need no stinking giant mirrors. We don’t need no stinking puny hybrids. (We don’t need no stinking nuclear power, for that matter, though we’re positively glowing with that, too.)
In short, Saskatchewan is not in danger of “running out” of conventional energy. Not many Liberals seem to know this. I believe they may have us mistaken for Ontario.
We have enough conventional energy in Saskatchewan to power every electrical grid, fill every SUV, and idle in every drive through in the province until long after the remainder of the world has ground to a halt. (In fact, we should probably make drive-through’s mandatory just to burn off the stuff that bubbles up from the ground on its own.)
So you won’t be taking our money to build over-priced, underperforming “alternative energy” crap we don’t need. You can use your money to build over-priced, underperforming crap we don’t need.
I hope this has helped clarify matters.
Thank you.
One more thing – if we’re the ones doing all the polluting…
…then how come Toronto has all of the smog?
So, Roger, you write an angry, illiterate, factually inaccurate piece, attacking someone with demeaning and condescending language and ask “what kind of void is missing in your life?” ROTFLMAO!
Dude, you’ve heard us talk about Liberalism as a mental illness… You’re apparently an archetypal case (ask your shrink what that means. He probably won’t know either, but you two will have fun grinning and giggling about the retarded right together. Then at recess you can go sit on the swing for a bit).
Note the diagnostic trend: a)direct attack b)statement of false dogma c)oblique attack on associate d)condescending command statement d)victimization of the target. This pattern is repeated throughout your comment. (You write like John Daly. Paranoid schizophrenia is also a symptom).
When you get your personality disorder under control, come back and visit us. We’ll introduce you to some real nice folk, imbibe a few polysyllabic words and have a great conversation.
Lesson #1: there is no such thing as “free trade”. Doesn’t matter what the treaty says.
Lesson number #2: We don’t get nearly as much smog from the US as you’d like to believe. We get it mostly because of our size. But that’s irrelevant in any case, because the fact that we have so much of it here is a case for shutting down Toronto, not the west…
Lesson #3: Unrestrained faux psychoanalytic projection is a warning sign for liberalosis (see diagnostic trend above), a treatable, but not necessarily curable, disease requiring significant intervention.
Lesson #4: The internet is, in fact, a substitute for higher learning. It can be and often is, an excellent source for “continuing education” for those who paid attention the first time (critical requirement). No CV credits though for the terminally anal.
Lesson#5: The squiggly red line under a word means you spelled it wrong. “Non challant” is spelled “nonchalant” Jig’s up, bud. You’re a dufus.
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Now, what I was going to comment on, Kate, is the one major weakness for Saskabush: #4
In Ontario we have this scam called Ontario Drive Clean Program that is testing car emissions for everything but sulphur dioxide. This brownish haze over Toronto is a cloud made mostly of sulphuric acid.
“I’ve seen this movie before and it is called gay marriage; the plot revolves around a populace obsessed with a single minor issue while much bigger issues, such as free speech, are neglected until it is too late.”
In ethological circles, this is called a displacement activity, a ritualistic physical response when no other action is attainable. No doubt has an analogue in the miasma known as human psychology.
Mayor Miller (Toronto) demonstrates this behavior on a consistent basis (the anger is a clue); hence his pathological focus on handguns and legitimate handgun owners. It is a pathological syndrome, and for someone in Miller’s position, may have socio-pathological consequences. Stephane doesn’t show it. He appears to be simply dumb.
“Now, what I was going to comment on, Kate, is the one major weakness for Saskabush: #4…”
Somehow the end of this got chopped off….
..Your population density of
ARRRGGH! the response generator doesn’t like the left arrow symbol when used for “less than”…
Last time… Your population density of less than 2 per km isn’t sufficient cannon fodder to prevent the eastern infidels when they come for your resources and your rights.
EXCELLENT post! I laughed so hard! In this day of pandering and political correctness, what a refreshing breath of carbon emissions. I wonder if Dion will think of taxing overweight people because they breathe heavier?
Yeah but Skip the eastern infidels would have to find the resources once they got here and most lefties couldn’t find their butt sitting on both hands.
It isn’t my smog in Toronto, it’s theirs.
well they paid for that smog, they own it. But that can’t be the only reason the Leafs suck.
I’m not worried that Mr.Dion and his ilk will seize leadership someday and bring this “plan” to fruition… I believe there’s sufficient anger in the west (still) that if such a plan was implemented, the ball would really be set in motion for a western separatist party. So on the day formerly known as Dominion Day, I advocate in my own demented way, (and seriously, only for today!) the ascension of S.Dion as P.M. du Canada.
maybe after this all blows over, as the west rises again, perhaps as an enlarged “Cascadia” … with anywhere but Calgary as its capital… with a small republican government, low taxes, property rights, an effective free speech law, no special interest groups with dedicated special interest laws only for them, a couple of really big f*ckin’ prisons for those that deserve it, and a judicial system not afraid to fill it, maybe then we’ll have “Dominion of Cascadia Day” or days… June 30 – July 1
only S.Dion, can save the west, from Canada. Did you read it here first?
“Yeah but Skip the eastern infidels would have to find the resources once they got here and most lefties couldn’t find their butt sitting on both hands.”
Nah, they’ll just require you to register them…:)”
I do believe the liberals negotiated a clause with the U.S. in our free trade agreement, that the U.S. had full access to our oil and gas AT THE SAME PRICE AS cANADA PAYS. At the time I felt it was the same thing as saying any oil and gas in Canada were actualy as good as being on U.S. soil.
Please tell me that I was mistaken and that we can give or withhold our production and that we can charge what we want.
Roger– Its all about getting dialogue and conversation going about topics the MSM wont touch. It’s the new way and its a free country, no need to be a jerk.
I wonder when I’ll be called a blue eyed sheik again by the msm to vilafi me in Toronto?
“Floats on lakes of oil…”
Such poetry! Such beautiful imagery! As soon as I stop sniffling from the emotional toll those words took on me, I’ll…remember what the hell it was I was trying to say.
Priceless Kate! Saskatchewan, Priceless!
Saskatchewan — We have a population density of well under 2 persons per square km.
Your smog must be coming from moose flatulence!
Well, a few points:
Roger, there is such a thing as a domestic fuel price. It’s called a gasoline tax and among the various levies it amounts to more than a third of the price. Governments have no control over the world oil price; they have enormous control over the retail price of gasoline and diesel fuel.
Second, about Garth’s blog, he was a former director of Sierra Legal Defense Fund. Nothing more need be said about the relevance of any opinions he might have.
Three, Kate your remark about nuclear power was simply idiotic. Do you actually think it stinks?
Saskatchewan has the best uranium deposits in the world. If the greens want a cleaner environment then why do we not exploit what we have in Canada instead of try to come up with new wealth distribution socialist schemes. Nuclear produces no Co2.
Kate, I am pretty sure on top of all that, you have most of the grain too.
One big blight on Saskatchewan is Ralphy Goodale.
by the look of his hair he must be dipping into the Lakes of oil.
Remember, the green shit… err shift will be tough on Saskatchewan and Alberta but universities will flourish so those roughnecks can get an university education and… do what exactly???
When will those academic dipwads realize that you don’t have to be a university grad to have a skill set or trade that is of use to the economy of Canada? Real tradespeople are in short supply across the country and it isn’t going to get any better.
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…so those roughnecks can get an university education and… do what exactly???
That massive university education didn’t do much for the French Leader of the LOYAL Opposition, did it!
Perhaps if he knew just a little bit more he might just realize how much he DID NOT KNOW.
Perhaps not.
CRB
Roger just isn’t very smart.
I’d be hanging my head in shame if I was a stupid as he is.
First off, although some smog is from the US, your anti-US crap doesn’t change the existence of those coal-fired generators that your buddy McShify promised to close down – three times now.
Your little fantasy also doesn’t consider that central Canada (and that’s where Ontario is in case you didn’t know,) is the manufacturing heart of the country where most of the heavy industry is.
You ever been through Hamilton? Sudbury? Windsor?
Alberta and SK is where the bulk of the energy is generated but shouldn’t it be the end-user which is blamed for the emissions? That would be California -Ontario gets it’s oil from the ME because it’s cheaper to use ships than build a pipeline. (A fact that should also be remembered by the western chauvinists who think they have the power to cut the east off.)
Roger, should go and slap your mother for not teaching you to shut up when you don’t know jack – which is most of the time.
Kevin, nuclear does produce trace amounts of CO2 on a life cycle basis. For the record, here they are:
Coal: 975 g/kWh
LNG Thermal: 608 g
LNG Combined Cycle: 519 g
Solar PV: 53 g
Wind: 29 g
Nuclear: 22 g
Hydro-electric: 19 g
This was done by the Central Research Institute for the Electric Power Industry in Japan. In Canada, the coal and nuclear numbers would be lower (shorter distance for coal, and no fuel enrichment for nuclear) and the LNG number would likely be higher, given longer transport distances. Life cycle here means all costs including construction, fuel production and transport, operation, and decommissioning. It’s worth noting that in Japan, wind and solar result in more CO2 that does nuclear. This does not include the need for backup power for the renewables which would only add to their CO2 burden. In the case of hydro, it does not include methane emissions from reservoirs, only their raw construction costs.
Your central point however is entirely true, and these are the numbers to back you up.