It was a full year ago when the Saskatchewan First Act was introduced and then brought into law. But now the provincial government is going to use it to fight the federal government’s climate change initiatives on Clean Electricity Regulations, Clean Fuel Standard, and an incoming emissions cap for oil and gas.
And here’s why:
Another day of near-flatline wind power production in Alberta on Wednesday. 13 of 38 wind farms produce 1 megawatt, or less (as in zero) for 24 hours. Several of those had capacities in the 100 to 200 megawatt range. And all the got was one, for a few minutes at a time.
And despite renewables clearly failing miserably, as noted above, Canada needs to move faster on renewable energy, Jonathan Wilkinson says.
There were some other energy issues raised in Wednesday’s Throne Speech.
Changing weather patterns.
I live and work in farming. What we have noticed is that we no longer get the rains we used to have twenty years ago and before. As Canada adds wind turbines through the country to pull energy from the wind that seems to reduce how far the rains are carried. I studied physics when I was becoming a power engineer. thanks to Trudeau many of those jobs no longer exist, but I still retain a lot of that knowledge. One of the key principles is energy can’t be created, it can only change form and due to the inefficiencies in transferring it some is always lost when changing. I believe that when we pull energy from the wind it changes how the weather would normally act. We no longer get the three day or week long rains. What we do get is spotty and no longer general rains. Wind turbines are not reliable and cause the supply of power to the grid to become more unpredictable. Know the supply and demand are both less predictable thanks to green tech. This makes producing and supplying power more expensive as the power produced must be matched to the demand. Green energy seems to be bad for the environment and the end users. its good for the producers living off government subsidies and the politicians pretending they are helping the environment so they can campaign on it.
Upvote on that comment John Gault
I’ve said this for years. No such thing as FREE energy. You take it out of the winds, and places further away will end up with droughts as the rains won’t make it as far as they once did. But the Lieberals won’t let a catastrophe go to waste, and blame the droughts on climate change, meaning more taxes levied and more spent on destructive policies.
All energy is free. Converting it to a useable form is what costs money.
Had said that some years ago in a comment on SDA.
The few that might have read it perhaps thought, what a wacky thing to say.
The winds in Crowsnest Pass as strong as they are are very likely severely modified and without a doubt change climate moving eastward. There are hundreds of wind turbine, they most certainly have an effect.
You wanna talk climate change caused by you there is an example.
The Scientologists are not gonna study that, it may cause collapse of their models.
I wished you lived where I do this past summer. Freaking rain, rain and rain.
Yes, same here. We had 12″ of rain in June. That is more than an entire summer’s worth, but I do think that the expectation of repeatability of weather year-after-year within the lifetime and memory of one human is nonsense. Every year is different; no two year’s the same.
I remember a winter in Colorado, at 7800′ when we had 48″ of snow in a single storm; and another winter in exactly the same place when we had almost no snow at all.
It’s Galt, not Gault. You are using the John Galt reference form Atlas Shrugged are you not?
That said, we need to stick with what works until we have something better to replace it.
Start with reopening the closed nuclear plants, continue with natural gas and oil and maybe dig up more coal.
Without affordable, reliable energy … many will die in the cold of winter or lose their homes due being unable to afford to heat it. That will be on government and their clean energy money grab.
It is time to ignore the feds on many matters. IGNORE THEM. Better yet, tell them to go straight to hell.
If the federal government disappeared entirely, most Canadians would see absolutely no difference in their personal affairs. The federal government does nothing that affects most people’s lives in any noticeable way. It has a few agencies important to all or nearly all Canadians, but those could easily be set up by interprovincial agreements.
Demolishing most of the federal government could mean a host of very good things for most people, including the terminating of the Official Languages Act, and Canada’s useless Constitution Act of 1982.
Pretty much. Canada is too large to be governed from Ottawa and Gatineau.
We need property rights, that were excluded. Dief, the Chief, was right.
Easy. Just create WGTs (Wind Generation Turbines)
US (Biden Administration) energy policy is Canadian energy policy on steroids.
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/4252904-bidens-kamikaze-climate-plan-for-the-us-economy/
The Sask First Act is a great step to counter the Feds in Ottawa! Just don’t relay on our courts I’m afraid they are compromised!
I wonder what areas use heating oil and get rebates from the Liberals!!! Wow who could have guessed ——Quebec and Eastern Canada!