Here’s the story on Guilbeault’s updated Clean Electricity Regulations, and it includes an at-length discussion with SaskPower Minister Jeremy Harrison explaining why Saskatchewan is rejecting it.
Here’s the key thing: Other media are acting like this is a win – that the deadline has simply been punted to 2050. Well, I actually read through the regulations and realized it’s a bait and switch. In fact, the regulations include an impossible to meet emissions standard for anything that burns anything by 2035. Even if you put carbon capture on every single natural gas and coal power plant in Saskatchewan and Alberta, if the CCS behaves anything like Boundary Dam 3, you won’t get anywhere close to the new standard of 65 tonnes CO2 per gigawatt-hour. So the federal government slyly let people think they’ve punted, when really they haven’t punted at all. Like Lucy, they’re pulling the football away in 10 years and 12 days. (That’s the amount of time we have to build carbon capture on everything. And even if we do, it won’t be good enough. Good luck with that.)
Enbridge’s Weyburn wind project open house, Part 2: Enbridge’s opening statements
It’s as if I should change the name of the website to SaskPowerOnline.ca. Jeepers – this week is almost all power related.
Any chance the Sask Party will get the cojones to point this out to citizens, say screw the feds and focus on getting Saskpower to generate cheap, consistent power? Quit wasting time trying to play a game that you will never be allowed to tie, much less win.
Why should anyone be surprised? The POS’s behind the climate change scam are purposely impoverishing us to make us easy to rule.
Period.
That is the entire point of this lie. The key is to incrementally tighten the screws at a rate where voluntary compliance remains high. Only once it is too late will they begin to let the mask slip, even as they continuously gaslight us and change the rules as they go.
Anyone who chooses to go along with any piece of this scam is a fool, regardless of the perceived temporary benefits.
Its like everybody involved is pretending that they don’t want us dead.
The Spawn and Guilbeault (the psychotic face of green zealotry, Butts is a close second) are now political zombies. Everything they say and do should essentially be ignored by the provinces. The economic genocide built into their legislation will have to be repealed unless PP wants the west to separate.
No need for panic. This goverment is dead in the water and will be gone by the summer, as will this punitive approach to the industries that are paying for Quebec’s lunch. We should look south where the money comes from, not east where the money goes. The Saskatchewan government is right to toss this ‘legislation’ into the recycling bin. It’s just the sort of stinkbomb this government lobs at Canadians before taking a five-week holiday.
Wake the hell up and say no to the guy in the orange jumpsuit. Is everyone in Canada really as stupid as I observe on a daily basis?
So we are at about 430 ppm. If Canada disappeared of the face of the earth tomorrow – we would be 429.7
And C02 is not a thermostat for the earth.
Why again are our provincial governments still playing footsie with this issue?
Oh yeah, afraid of being called a denier…
Just a general comment on the article – the term “fossil fuel” is used repeatedly.
There is no reason to believe that petroleum has anything whatsoever to do with fossils. Aside from the depth at which most petroleum is recovered being way below the depth at which fossils supposedly form, there has never been any scientific rationale to believing the two are related.
There have only been some quotes based entirely on speculation. And not sound speculation either – one should be able to extrapolate the unbelievable amount of fossils there would have had to be to account for all the known petroleum in the world, of which only a fraction has been recovered.
Calling oil a “fossil fuel” is almost as scientific as calling water “comet dust”. And serves the interests of those who want us to believe that it is a finite, non-renewable resource. It is the second most abundant liquid on earth, and for all we know is continuously being created as part of a natural process.
There are plenty of scientific reasons so call it a fossil fuel.
1. Coal comes from wood. You can even find knots in it.
2. Oil come from dead animals. its full of biological contaminants.
3. Long-chain hydrocarbons do not form naturally.
Isn’t there a song about this? “Oh, the Weyburn wind, is a restless wind, a restless wind that learns to wobble”? Along those lines, anyway.