For this, they despoiled miles of skyline at Pincher Creek.
At this moment 89.7% of Alberta's electricity is being produced by fossil fuels. Wind is at 5.9% of capacity and producing 1.7% of total generation, while solar is at 31.4% of capacity and producing 3.62% of total generation. At the same time we are importing 61 MW or 0.6% pic.twitter.com/ihr89lvxfX
— Reliable AB Energy (@ReliableAB) October 5, 2022
Accidents happen… It is called Pincher Creek… Very, very lovely area…
Except for the very strong winds and all the bird grinders.
It’s quite literally. CRIME against nature to cover the wilderness in these 16th century wind contraptions. And since they’re sooooooooo gawd damnned inefficient … the landscape has to be obliterated for an even PALTRY contribution to our contemporary energy needs.
Ohhhhhh yeahhhhh … then what needs to change is your energy needs. Right? You need to live with a tiny fraction of the energy needed for a comfortable western lifestyle. You need to start living like a third worlder. That … is the “green” agenda.
Thanks, corrected.
We are way past due,pensions for “Public service” need to be dependent on the result of their actions.
Their stated intentions are worth nothing.
Their promised returns on investments always utter lies.
Our “servants” have damaged us beyond all recovery.
Thus the actual results are the only measuring stick we can use.
Proponents of Gang Green need to have skin in the game.
The impossible dreams that were used to sell unreliables as “solutions” need to be rewarded..
By preference in the most barbaric ways ..
Banishing these oxygen thieves to “Carbon Free Enclaves” would be justice in my world.
Where their miserable failure to survive their own wisdom,could at least be used as “educational material”,for future school children.
To help them falling into the same madness.
Pincher Creek is a perfect example..Where are all those big raptors that used to soar over that area?
I have not seen one in recent passes through the area.
Two thumbs up!
Mr Robertson – very well said. Every “green” politician and advocate should be required to live under the conditions they propose for everyone else. Thank you.
You mean treat our government SERVANTS … like free market employees? Where incompetence gets FIRED. Where continual poor decisions will get you terminated? Yeah, I’d vote for that. In a heartbeat.
And it should be noted that EVERY decision to Install this horrifically inefficient “green” energy nonsense …. Is nothing more than going along with peer pressure. Government and NGO peers who are pushing the “green agenda” are fraudsters … selling “clean, green, renewable” energy as the fashion of the day. Bottom line … it doesn’t work. Period. It’s fabulously expensive. Underwritten by tax credits. And a complete FRAUD. But the really kewl kids “believe” in it. So too, must every government official and Public Utility. It’s sad as hell that Stupidity has become government policy.
Back in 2015 I was fortunate to be in Pincher Creek, drove up to a Bird Grinder and saw a Dead Eagle laying on the ground, obviously smashed by the blade. The ends Always Justify the means to these green fascists. Woke Energy Blows.
White House criticizes OPEC for its “shortsighted” decision to reduce oil production.
Unlike the “long-term” decision the Biden administration made to force suffering on every American household, when it decided to strangle domestic oil production.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6313316979112
“Fossil fuel” sounds like a term invented by the green communists, it would be nice if the adults in the room stopped using their terms.
exactly!
I’ve been saying this all along…..
It’s “HYDROCARBONS” damnit!
I am Joe’s age and “fossil fuel” is what people call my lunch.
It’s not their skyline. It’s yours.
They hate you and they don’t care if they ruin your life and destroy everything you care about.
Just build more of them and the wind will come, Field of Dreams style.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/05/a-few-graphs-say-it-all-for-weather-dependent-renewables-2/
Wow – Solar was doing about 3 times what it averages. You must be experiencing unusual bright sunshine for this time of year.
Fun Fact: Western Canada’s VERY FIRST producing oil well was drilled what became Waterton National Park beside what was known as Oil Creek with a cable tool rig for over a year. The well was called Lineham Discovery Well No. 1 and started flowing oil in September 1902. The well was owned by the Rocky Mountain Development Company which had its office in…Pincher Creek. Which is now home to a near town horizon filled with the towering forms of hundreds of wind turbines. Further Fun Fact is that Pincher Creek is a short drive from the prolific formerly Shell operated Waterton Gas Plant which literally kept Shell afloat during some pretty lean times in the energy industry. There’s a lot of important Alberta oil & gas industry history (and remaining potential) right there but that’s not where the money’s been going. It’s been going “damn the torpedo’s” headlong into spinning bird killing unreliable eyesores that often run at under 10% of design capacity and require 100% fossil fuel backup. Smh.
… spinning bird killing unreliable eyesores … AKA Swindlemills