Is there any possibility that the folks in Edmonton have been paying attention to all the stories I’ve been doing on the failure of wind in Alberta? Because on Thursday, Alberta announced a six month pause on renewable energy approvals.
Is there any possibility that the folks in Edmonton have been paying attention to all the stories I’ve been doing on the failure of wind in Alberta? Because on Thursday, Alberta announced a six month pause on renewable energy approvals.
This is the best news I could hope for. The cost/efficiency ratio of wind and solar is ridiculous. The capacity may be there, but the generation is both intermittent and sparse. And the land area eaten up, the birds and bats killed…
Sounds like old people’s sex life.
“University of Alberta energy economist Andrew Leach”. Misspelled. Should be “Leech” I believe. Anybody know?
You can find his profile on line. Lamentably it’s Leach not the more accurate “Leech”. He’s a UAB professor of environmental law. Draw your own conclusions.
Yeah, well, just like sharks won’t attack lawyers, leeches never attach to lawyers.
It’s professional courtesy, cgh.
About time someone started to show some brains.
We’re all going to freeze if they don’t.
Let’s hope this catches on.
Geez I got my hopes up, but the release reads like an ad FOR renewables.
I could rewrite it in one word
Unreliable
The birds of Alberta will thank you.
It’s pretty clear by now that the next large electrical generating station Alberta builds will be conversion of more coal-fired units to burn gas and new nuclear generation. This is precisely why Alberta is in a nuclear partnership with Saskatchewan, Ontario and New Brunswick. Ontario is taking the lead in siting and building new SMRs and sharing the experience with the other provinces in the partnership.
This is the real reason why the environmental scum are so bitterly unhappy. Western Canada’s energy future is not unreliable wind and solar; it’s nuclear power and perhaps some carbon sequestration. Alberta and Saskatchewan’s existing coal-fired units are all getting very old and due for retirement.
Great news.
Hope we permanently stop wind and solar.
“Great news.
Hope we permanently stop wind and solar.”
Same here. If you don’t have access to hydro generation, go nuclear.
Those opposed to this announcement may just as well have been agents of, or on the payroll of Xi Jinping as the best way to weaken the west (comprised of an inferior race in their eyes) is to destroy our energy grids and nothing does that better than wind and solar, and they sell most of the components to do so. https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/how-to-derail-a-civilization?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=323914&post_id=135673044&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
I love my province.
No Chance.
There is something else going on, we just don’t know yet what it is.
Why do I say that? Because Western nations are governed by morons. See below for evidence of the moronity.
https://climatediscussionnexus.com/videos/canadas-2001-climate-predictions-revisited/
I learned all I needed to know about wind a few years ago when driving through the wind farm near Halkirk. There was a strong wind blowing yet every windmill in the entire area was at a standstill. In the cold winter air I could see a small plume of steam from the gas fired plant by the river south of Forestburg. If a windmill can’t generate electricity when the wind is blowing…..
How many coal fired generating plants are now idle after the stupid NDP decided that was a good idea? We NEED more generators running!!!
Fire things up for god’s sake!
We’re about twenty minutes away from insurers refusing to issue coverage for freighters transporting EVs.
https://apnews.com/article/cargo-ship-fire-netherlands-environment-sea-27535db6880a42084458fee8b10c3592
6 months is a good start and God willing it becomes an indefinite halt. Economies are built on a foundation of energy efficiency, and what I mean by efficiency is cheap and reliable production of energy.
L – When will Saskatchewan’s government catch up to energy reality?
Waiting… waiting…waiting…waiting, election in 14 months…
Wasting taxpayers money gets more scrutiny during inflation w/o
end: mortgage payments, rent, food, utilities, vehicles.
This extreme inflation due, in large part to the scamdemic, prov. gov’t’s irresponsibility. Prov. gov’t’s spent the deficit dollars, as if they were real money. The real part was choosing to lower Canadian’s standard of living for decades.
The other reality revelation being HealthCare is seriously broken and
24 percent w/o a family doctor is going to look like the good old days
soon. It will be 33 percent before the end of the decade.
Also, housing won’t return to being affordable for the middle
class and the working class for one, two, three or more generations.
At a million 3rd world migrants per year. The Trudeau regime’s gift
is don’t worry about not being able to visit the 3rd world as a tourist.
It is becoming part of every city, not just the bigger cities.
Who do you vote for when all parties in Parliament promise to lower
your standard of living? Sophie was smart enough to get financial
arrangements and separate before most realized the captain of
Canada’s ship of state struck an iceberg repeatedly for 3 years.
She understands lifeboat politics. We’ll see many STEM grads/
and tradesmen getting out, too. While getting out is still allowed.
Sadly no one gives a shit about cheap and reliable production of energy. No One.
Nah, they just wanna see who gives the most kickbacks and contributions.