They’ve got some real geniuses in Alberta, I tell you.
A day after Alberta ceases coal-fired power generation, wind power flatlines for 19 hours. The last coal unit (now being converted to natural gas), typically produced 20x the output of the entire fleet of 1568 wind turbines was capable of last night.
A sad day for sure.
God gave Alberta so much wealth generating potential only to have it squandered by the UniParty of socialists and so called conservatives.
The fact that Jason Kenny , and then Danielle Smith, decided not to reverse the dumb decisions of Notley and the ndp will simply mean that the pain will be inflicted upon us again.
It’s almost as if they don’t want us to have cheap power and heating fuels .
One expected no better from Kenny in the first place; he was always something of a CINO rat.
Smith, however, has been beyond disappointing. She’s all bark and very little bite. She’s leading what will prove to be an inconsequential government that achieves little to nothing of any substance, easily undone by whatever government follows her.
That Alberta cannot produce better leaders than this is .. I was going to say surprising, but this is Canada. Milquetoast conservatives are par for the course here.
I can’t understand what the UCP are waiting for ?
All the ways they said they were going to make us freer , and clear out the dead weight in healthcare and in government bureaucracy , is apparently not going to happen.
When liberals, and democrats, get into office they take a wrecking ball to everything starting on day one. Apparently “conservatives “ like to enjoy their expense accounts and free travel for the first 4.5 years, and then hit the campaign trail to ask for another chance.
Sid
Apparently “conservatives”
There’s your problemo rite there, they are NOT conservatives, they are bible pounders!
They are neither. They are all imposters working to the plan. Appear or sound like you are going to do something, in order to placate the conservatives, and then do very little. The Dippers put the plan in motion and the UCP are custodians of the plan.
Relax. You don’t turn a ship around overnight.
That doesn’t make any sense, GYM, but that is to be expected coming from a bigot like you.
You use “Bible Pounder” like a pejorative. Some of the finest people I know are “bible pounders,” and most of them ARE conservatives.
I think the term you were looking for is “liberals,” but “CINO” would work as well.
REAL conservatives DO NOT trash people with a pejorative based on sincerely held beliefs, but on their actions. God gave everyone free will, and REAL conservatives RESPECT that!
Are YOU a REAL conservative, GYM, or are you just another liberal troll planting a false flag?
I don’t think GYM is either fake or conservative. He’s a drunken lunatic who sleeps on the riverbank and roams the streets ranting. Which is, frankly, part of his charm.
If Alberta actually had a conservative party, rather than fake controlled-opposition conservative-in-name-only parties, then I would be mystified as to why they NEVER reverse anything the hard-core socialists implemented, nor do anything other than talk about what the federal hard-core socialists do.
But the illusion of freedom through the rigged (s)election process keeps the people from doing anything other than grumbling.
When I moved to Alberta in 1980, there was a moratorium on using natural gas for power generation.
Since O&G industry has found massive supplies and extraction of gas.
It’s now less cost to burn gas than coal for electricity generation.
Boy it sure didn’t feel like that this past winter when they had to go begging for us to shut down everything we could to save the grid.
I’m in favor of excess base load Cheap power all year long and it would be nice if the place with that potential would use it to help the people and businesses that live here
As I’ve said numerous times, and every time Alberta ends up in a grid alert: Alberta has more coal, oil and gas than God, because God gave all of his to Alberta. To ever have energy shortages of any form in one of the most energy-rich jurisdictions on the planet can be attributed to utter incompetence at the top.
As others have said, Kenney and Smith had the opportunity to reverse the end of coal. They did not.
Apparently 90 IQ people have elected 80 IQ people.
that high eh!
I hate to disagree with you and I wish it were incompetence, but I fear it is part of the plan. All conservatives can’t be incompetent. It’s a statistical impossibility.
“They are all imposters working to the plan. Appear or sound like you are going to do something, in order to placate the conservatives, and then do very little. ”
Exactly, Anders. It really is no more complicated than that, and our ‘Conservatives’ in Canada have a long history of doing this.
The “end of coal”!!
Not at all. Alberta is shipping massive amount to China. They are not part of the world climate I guess.
and we import coal powered electricity from Montana . saskatchewan is already on the same path .
If you can get more money selling your coal to China than it costs to buy your electricity from Montana, the accountants will say it makes more sense than burning it to make the electricity for yourself. I’m not saying this is a reason you should never ignore the accountants’ argument, nor that you mustn’t burn you coal instead of selling it, nor buy electricity instead of making it yourself just to spite the accountants if you want to, but it would be best to have additional good reasons.
They’re congratulating themselves on that little uptick near the end.
When you replace the physics of energy densities and economic analysis with media-parroted NGO /academia death-cult pandering and industrial scale rent seeking, IOW an industrial strategy of sociopathic Jacobins and Bolsheviks, this is what you get. I’d guess that the majority of the urban Alberta Eloi still believe in the wind / solar bromides for planetary salvation.
To tell you the truth, anybody that follows the affairs of men knows that at times wind blows and at times it does not though there are those that keep in their religious ignorance.
Only those that succumbed to the climatic religion can’t or more likely don’t want to admit the truth.
They are so invested in their religious ideology that it would take some kind of cataclysmic revelation to get real.
Short of that, its business as usual.
l have no idea beyond wild speculation and off-the-shelf conspiiiddddddacies why all of a sudden SO MANY of the doofuses in charge have jumped on the bandwagon of societal ruin.
its the biggest wtf lve ever seen. right down to the nooks a cranies; same thing cluck cluck cluck
’tis biblical in nature.
The thing is that the politicians are there not to do anything of value, they are there to value their own bank
accounts.
It is certain contradiction in politics where a rich politician, like Trump, does not care about the hourly attacks against his person.
The nor so rich politicians are only going to do things only to the point where they are safe to be reelected. After that it’s demagoguery, pleasing the maximum of ruling class.
The plebeians and those that oppose are ignored and a meme is developed to call those that don’t agree, fascists, racists, phobes of this or that, deplorables and other such.
With the help of the mass media cartel, its a breeze for them to ignore the plebeians.
If we wanted to de-incentivize the current political road to ruin, politicians would have to be limited to one term in office with no pension or other benefits and be paid no more than the median income of the nation. As well, the public service could either be unionized with no voting franchise or free to vote with no union attempting to represent both sides of the negotiating table.
Well when the wind ain’t blowing and it’s dark, where’s the electricity coming from?
When its sunny and the wind is blowing, there ain’t ever enougj so…pick cherries
Gotta have base load;
Coal
Gas
Wood
Cogen
Diesel
Hydro
And nuclear
I drove through southern Alberta two days ago. I saw hundreds of windmills 12 were actually moving and of those only 6 were moving faster than the second hand one on my watch.