Late on Monday the federal Natural Resources Committee released its final report on the “just transition.” Pipeline Online will have several stories on it over the coming days, but the first is the verbatim 19 recommendations by the committee. Both the Conservatives and Bloc issued dissenting reports.
One of the things all this just transitioning is all about is switching from coal, oil and gas to wind and solar. Well, today, the day before the solstice, solar power in Alberta at noon was producing half its rated capacity.
This is not just nor sustainable. It is a death sentence for people, small businesses, farms and industry. Remember the goal and it all makes sense in a manic psychopathic world view.
A “Just-Stain,” if you will….
It’s Just incompetence.
No, it’s deliberate. For these psychopaths, the end justifies the means. And the end is either our enslavement or death.
AESO (Alberta electric system operator) aeso.ca. really nice layout in their supply demand report of up to the minute generation and utilization. I looked at it every day, and solar and wind are generally pitiful.
There is an easy solution to this. Select one province (I nominate Ontario) to switch over from oil & gas to 100% renewable on January 1st. Give me a few months to get my propane backup generator going but I’m all in.
If these “solar” outfits are “generating” less than 50% at NOON in SUMMER in Kanaduh, what can one expect at “noon” in mid winter. OK, the “panels” are a bit more “vertical” than we see here in sub-tropical Queensland, so any snow that falls,might just slide off.
Total KWH per panel per day?. Cost of replacement of “stressed” panels every fifteen years? Whose prime farmland is going to be “eminent domained” to install these Potemkin Power-Plants? Or, are swathes of “pristine National Forest” set to be bulldozed because of their “location”? “Batteries, (self-immolating or otherwise), the size of a house to “store” the DC juice from the panels so there will be “something” available at NIGHT? Heavy-current, three-phase inverters? Serious step-up transformers to actually feed the high-voltage transmission cables? Transmission towers with the usual WIDE fire-break and service road cleared along their line of march, just to get the juice to “market”?
Is ANYBODY “following the money”?
yeah…all that mass of land just to produce intermittent & very weak power. When a small 710 megawatt nuclear power facility can sit on a one and half acre plot right next to a few sub stations!
This means nothing to your average Calgarian and Edmontonian. Until they get to enjoy a week long blackout in January, they mostly follow the Jimmy Jones energy mantra of the Jacobins and Bolsheviks draped in green. They probably support the unemployment of their own for the cause. The intentional killing of the Alberta and Saskatchewan economies is national policy and has (captured) institutional support from coast to coast. Even Smith agrees with the premise. She just wants slower acting cool aid.
Let the Western bastards freeze in the dark!
Typical Easterner. As if we needed permission! What do think we do every winter, idiot?
First comes the politics and then came the professionals catering to it.. I don’t think the people playing with all this money care if it works or not.. Zero carbon is the job description..
Everything goes tits up?.. As far as they are concerned they have done their jobs.. Its madness..
Tomorrow being the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, production is certain to jump up substantially. It might even achieve 51%.
Rule #1 – If it needs to be subsidized, it’s not sustainable.
Can’t we just transition that guy into private life, just not ready was 100% correct.
I had some kid come to the door yesterday trying to interest me in a residential solar install. I had no stomach to listen to his spiel so I said when he finally had to take a breathe “we’re not doing it”. He then asked “you’ve already looked into it?” To which the reply was “we’re not doing it”. I know it won’t pay for itself in Alberta. Maybe in Honolulu but not here. I don’t want the roof damage. I don’t want the debt. And I don’t want my tax dollars being wasted on subsidies that underpins this carpet bagger dream. Alberta is Canada’s Energy Province. It’s time to shed the nonsense and get back to focusing on reliable and affordable energy!
A “Just Transition”.
We could agree,as westerners, that we no longer are interested in being dictated to, by idiots.
And that these same idiots and their ideology have cost us enough.
Enough already.
If we declare our Independence,run off the parasites and show Ottawa an armed fist..everyone wins.
We go on to live comfortable lives,with heat in the winter,air conditioning in the Summer and the right to chose our own ways of exploring our world..With a future to offer all of our children who wish to develop their skills..
And Can Ahh Duh?
They are no longer “responsible” for our “Carbon Emissions” and so guilt free, free to pay our price or freeze in the dark.
So just like South Africa they can brag about “Reducing their footprint”..
Maybe that will keep them warm?
Now this is a “Just Transition” I can live with.
And ,assuming you can perform basic maths,an unavoidable destination for all points West of North Bay.
For those spending the wealth are concentrated in the cities,while the resources being produced and work being done??
The Cult of Calamitous Climate is an Urban Religion.
For it cannot survive contact with the Weather.
Meanwhile oil companies are chieving record sales and profits.
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2023-6-19-stranded-assets-who-will-have-the-last-laugh
The last sentence sums it up perfectly.
“On the first day when any government withdraws its subsidies for any wind, solar or battery asset, that asset becomes “stranded.”
Every time “government” gets involved with anything, it becomes four times as costly, creates four times the number of management personnel, and never makes a profit again. This has been a true fact for decades, perhaps longer, and this current idiotic liberal government is a prime example of it. Yet we still let them gamble and lose our hard earned tax money spending it on whims and fantasies. This stupidity of “just transitioning” is just the latest example, and there will always be more coming. Apparently this is what governments do! I guess from their perspective, keeping the west poorer, will ensure they are richer.
It’s way past time for the west to say NO MORE. I’m really hoping Alberta and Saskatchewan will show the turd the middle finger on this attack on the west. However, as the recent by elections have just showed us, there is no change or improvement of the massive amount of stupidity still clouding the judgement of many Canadians. Complacency still rules!