28 Replies to “City of Champions”

  4. Wonder how Manitoba did…
    By coincidence I was brewing beer in my 9kW kettle and absentmindedly started a cleaning cycle on the oven.

  5. Earth hour. Brainwashed people doing stupid things. Way to go Edmonton. Now if you could only dump Allison and get some real leadership…….

  8. It’s daylight savings: that’s when it got dark. So people turned on lights. Duh.

  10. People running around with signs saying ‘the world is coming to an end’ are considered the sane ones by the CBC Amazing…

  11. Since the hops were steeped in the tears of environmentalists that batch was christened Earth Day IPA. At the moment it’s happily fermenting away, spewing enough CO2 to sink the Maldives for good.

  12. Why the dirty rotten….after all that David Suzuki has done for them, filthy rotten backstabbing….

  15. Well, no duh. What time was sunset in Edmonton on that day? 7:55pm. What was the temperature at 7:00pm? -3*C. At 8:00pm it was -7*C. So they’re saying more people used energy for things like lights and heating as the temperature dropped and it got darker. Big surprise.

  16. Would sinking the Maldives be a bad thing? I mean all that would happen would be one less Muslim back water in the world.

  17. Not that the CBC completely fails to mention the fact of the many people like ourselves who deliberately ratcheted up our power consumption. They are trying to rationalize a slight increase in demand by seeking natural or incidental demand triggers, like sunset and the hockey game, and gamely ignoring the obvious fact that few people bothered to switch off their lights.
    They come off sounding like the Black Knight in Monty Python’s Holy Grail.

  19. Well done Edmonton! I did my part here in Saskatchewan, turned on every light in the house but I rationalized it by claiming that I’m afraid of the dark.

  22. …and since lights create heat, turning them off makes the furnace work harder so even participating has little effect. Also, turning off the lights does not cause the power plant to generate substantially less power. However the surge demand at 9pm does spike the demand and the generators have to react thereby using even more power.

  23. Why thank you all! We worked hard: washer, dryer, all the lights, hobby shop tools running full blast…! It took some work! Sorry – missed out on the Tim Horton 500 but I don’t drink that swill anyways.
    And – for the liberal fart suckers in Morontario and Qweeebek: all your problems are NOT due to Albertan money and the tar sands – they are due to your own stupidity. You’re welcome.

  24. You had to love the first comment,the guy said they should have turned off the lights at Rexall center as the Oilers might have done better shooting in the dark!

  26. What pissed me off to no end, was the bloody diesel powered signs here in town that they were running on major street with a “support earth hour, turn off your lights…etc” irony, this is a word my city doesn’t know, but they obviously do after the backlash that’s been going on for the last few days.

  27. Eli, hopefully the morons on your town council learn a lesson from this feedback.
    sasquatch, the Bolsheviks never give up trying to either gain power or regain it. They are a pernicious disease.
    We celebrated Human Achievement Day by watching the DVD Russian movie “White Guard” with English captions. We discovered after the movie that we had forgotten to turn out the lights on the main floor. My bad.

  28. “Edmontonians actually used more power during Earth Hour than in the hour that preceded it.”
    That calls for a Kate-ism:
    “Heh.”

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