Emissions cap on oil and gas, while wind and solar fail, again, in Alberta

25 Replies to “Emissions cap on oil and gas, while wind and solar fail, again, in Alberta”

1. In order to lower emissions, shut off the taps to the rest of Canada.

   1. That’s what Alberta politicians have proposed in the past. Lougheed threatened to reduce or stop export permits of oil and natural gas to the rest of Canada in 1980 when Trudeau’s father was attacking Alberta’s petroleum industry. That policy should be revived, plus reducing export permits of propane to Quebec. Add in a tax or fee on the remaining petroleum products shipped to the rest of Canada to compensate the oil companies for decreased sales. I don’t think the rest of Canada realizes how dependent they are on Alberta and Saskatchewan petroleum products.

      Saskatchewan gets an exemption of course because Alberta and Saskatchewan are allies against the Trudeau Liberal-NDP government. Short term pain for long term gain because an attack on Alberta and Saskatchewan’s oil industry hurts Canada’s economy.

   2. Why not set the limit equal for each province, all sources combined. Ontario gets same as Saskatchewan. No per capita adjustment. All industries and personal use included. Canada is a confederation of provinces, so make them equal.

2. The time is past for the average Canadian citizen to tell the Laurentian Elite to stuff their lies and the ideas developed from those lies where the sun doesn’t shine. Politeness is not working because the communists don’t listen and are too stupid to figure out the end result will also effect them drastically.

   Death to tyranny.

   1. Funny enough, in Alberta right now, where all the solar panels are located, indeed the sun is not shining. So they could stuff those ideas in southern Alberta. Remarkable, isn’t it, how clouds, dense fog and snow on panels tends to block photons from reaching the panels?

      1. Or dust from volcanoes, or injected carbonates from Bill Gates, or, or climate models that don’t account for cloud cover (none of them, not a one). By the way, like your articles on energy – good job.

      2. Thanks, Brian. I always look forward to your articles. Especially the ones about wind and solar non-reliability and the promise of small modular nuclear reactors. Please keepit up! I have been assembling a lot of info regarding the enormity and impossibility of the “net zero” fantasy. I would be happy to send a bunch of it to you (with references) in case you might like to use some of it. It mainly relates to the enormous mining, processing transportation costs associated with converting to wind/solar and potentially having to at least double the capacity of the grid to handle EVs and electric heating. I can’t even begin to calculate all the extra CO2 emissions involved. Renewables can’t possibly run a mine or a smelter or anything else on a 24/7 basis so fossil fuels and/or nuclear would be required during and after the conversion and thereafter to provide back-up and stabiliy. Cheers and good on ya Brian. I give permission to SFA to provide my email address to you.

         1. Thank you for your kind words. Today was rather remarkable, especially to see so many solar facilities producing zip at lunch.

            You can reach me at brian.zinchuk@pipelineonline.ca. That’s the easiest.

3. Why are we still a part of this dumpster fire?

4. As a long-time Albertan, I fondly remember Ralph’s suggestion to “Let the Eastern Bastards freeze in the dark”. Time for a replay.

   1. I liked Ralph (before he stopped drinking). And I’m from Ontario – albeit only 45 km from the Manitoba border.

      1. I think Ralph was a better premier drunk than Saskatchewan’s Lorne Calvert was sober. But that’s just me.

      2. No matter, Bruce, anyone outside Ottawa with common sense is in the hinterland.

5. Why do we allow such profoundly stupid people to lead us?

   1. They’re not as stupid as they look and act, they’re mostly evil.

6. If you haven’t watched Tucker Carlson’s interview with Alex Jones, drop everything and watch it.

   https://creativedestructionmedia.com/video/2023/12/07/tucker-the-alex-jones-interview/

   1. I would enjoy watching Alex Jones’s interview with Barry Young concerning Young being arrested as a whistle blower.
      https://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2023/12/07/new-zealand-government-database-administrator-leaks-covid-shot-death-data-n4924567

7. So its a three-pronged threat.
   It threatens people’s businesses, it threatens people’s jobs and it threatens people’s survival.
   If that doesn’t inspire an “angry response”, then I’m not sure people deserve to live.

8. Meh.. The moment it costs them power and votes they will roll over like the feckless (c words) they are.. Cap and trade has failed because the cap is as worthless as the trade.. Take the money and run..

9. The idiot and the convict are bent on destroying Alberta.

10. Perhaps this is Trudeau’s plan to divide Canada permanently, West versus East, as if the West left the sainted Dominion, the Liberals would have permanent control of the East, just like Xi in China.

    I know our two western NDP governments could be convinced to continue making equalization payments to the East for 100 years or more, and eventually Alberta and Saskatchewan would go along, so the LPC might be rid of the fractious West forever, but still collect taxes from us.
    We could become a self sustaining Nation if we had some competent politicians out here, IF. For an armed forces, we could just hire a couple of divisions of Chinese soldiers,sailors and airmen, notice I said “men”, as they aren’t as diverse as we are.

11. “ the Liberals would have permanent control of the East, ”
    ??
    But they do …and always have had. Even when it was a Mulroney …liberal majority!

    When westerners grasp that it is a math issue and not a political philosophy issue then a great awakening will take place.
    But I fear westerners are going to get sucked into believing, once again, that PP will save the west from the power of bigger numbers that is the reality of the golden triangle.
    History repeats itself.

12. When will they bring in a “Stupidity Cap”.

    1. That is already the case.

13. Canada is like a wash basin. Everything runs to the centre. Because the majority lives at the centre. There fore they rule. Mob rule!
    Democracy is mob rule. A republic is rule by “law”. The majority can’t take from you just because they are the majority. This is why Canada doesn’t work for the western colonies.
    We need to not hold as sacred boundaries created by men. Shake off the chains of CON-federation. And set ourselves free.

    “The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.”
—Fyodor Dostoevsky