This is huge – Alberta wind and solar projects will have to put up the reclamation costs up front before going ahead. Should Saskatchewan do the same? Alberta releases new rules and no-go zones on wind and solar projects.
And the new rules mean when these turbines you see come down at end of life, they likely will not be replaced.
Also:
Don’t forget to levy a cost on existing windmills to cover the same costs.. go get several quotes for removal and reclamation but ensure at least 4 of the quotes come from liberal and dipper supporting firms. Then go with the highest cost as a base price for removing, plus an annual increase based on the costs of living.
As the scam artists have already sucked the public for all they can this seems like a typical line of BS.
INAUDIBLE INFRASOUND FROM WIND TURBINES DISTURBS HEALTH OF HUMANS AND ALL ORGANISMS
https://thehighwire.com/editorial/inaudible-infrasound-from-wind-turbines-disturbs-health-of-humans-and-all-organisms/
There is another problem with wind turbines…..the cables under the ground induce a small current into the ground which causes soil chemistry to be affected as it drives nemetodes away from the area. We came upon this issue when it was brought up by numerous land owners in the U.S. with turbines on their property. That current also caused buried pipelines to install cathodic protection where none was previously required.
Next, Alberta should announce a plan to build a couple of big Candus and by the time they go online all the windfarms and solar farms will be worn out.
does this cover the cost of storage of the ginormous non-recyclable turbine blades?
https://img.texasmonthly.com/2023/08/sweetwater-wind-blades.jpg
Anti-Commie Trolling:
“Our government will not apologize for putting Albertans ahead of corporate interests”
Pro-Commies Exposing:
“It’s not clear exactly how impact assessments will be used… before we start understanding how this will impact the (now obviously fake renewables) industry… unless such strict provisions are applied to the oil and gas industry as well.”
In your face Notley.
Brian,
thanks for the link to the Evan Bray show. How often do you appear there?
That Trump is primarily engaging in negotiation is, I think, validated by the fact that Trudeau immediately flew to Washington; although it does seem like SOX is constantly looking for reasons to fly around and emit more CO2. I think SOX is a far greater impediment to SK prosperity than Trump could ever be.
We implemented a system here in Wyoming a couple years ago that mandates the cost of removal and disposal must be set aside before any wind farm is constructed. In that regard, at least, it leveled the playing field with our coal mines which have long had to set aside reclamation funds. Now we’ll have to wait a decade or two to see how well it actually works, vis a vis the hideous wind farms.
There’s a wind farm about 8 miles south of Cheyenne, on the Colorado border, that reached end of life seven or eight years ago, and although the utility that operated it publicly stated that they would be removing it and restoring the land to its natural state, they’ve done nothing.
Usually the first Wednesday of the month at 10:06 a.m., but sometimes we have to move it back a week.
Brian, I welcome your armed resistance at the border. We have all the “newcomers” we can handle without taking Canada’s overflow too. Lock and load, baby!
Well, the way Trump is implying we need to protect our border from our own people crossing into their territory. So the machine gun nests would need to face inward, not outward.
Those wimpy plastic Canadian dollars don’t spend too well here on our side of the border. I am so sorry that Canada has gone FULL Zimbabwe-esqe Communist
Exactly what Dear Leader wants.
Now one shall escape Can Ahh Duh.
It must be good. It angers the communists in the Pembina Institute.
The Diavik diamond mine in the NWT put up four large wind turbines.
All electricity there before was diesel generated with fuel trucked in on the ice roads.
The wind blows like crazy up there.
The Ekati diamond mine is within site of Diavek.
Ekati looked at the numbers from the Diavek windmills and cancelled their own plans to install them.
Because the wind blows outside the range of acceptable speeds for the available wind turbines on the market?
I’d give consideration to installing windmills on the eventually reclaimed alpine coal mines in southwestern Alberta.
Conversely, no coal mines, no windmills.
What else can be done with a bunch of tall, sturdy poles?
Greenhouse tee-pees?
Tarps covering their acreage?
Cables for zipline fun?
You know the ‘green energy’ types are going to walk away from all their garbage, so what else could they be used for?
I was talking to some land owners in southern AB, near Pincher Creek, where there are enormous wind farms. They were complaining that ranchers who agree to lease their land for turbines are responsible for reclamation costs, and are supposed to set aside part of the lease for this purpose. But they don’t. I was told they assume the developers will maintain or replace the turbines and renew the lease ad infinitum.
They won’t. These same landowners are going to be lobbying the government in a decade, demanding taxpayers pay to clean up their land.
No one has a realistic notion of the true costs of removing these structures. Even if they aren’t left abandoned until the blades fall off, those massive foundations are likely to remain there like standing stones, for the next 200 years or so.
Averages around $500,000 US per turbine to dismantle and remove.
Well..When we rebuild our Army..
After we reward every member and minion of The Uni-Party of Canada..
The new and well equip Army Engineers Corp can use all the still standing Windmills for practise..
Heh
Lets face it,these monuments to Subsidy Farming will fall down on their own, before can Ahh Duh ever has a functional army.
I will be interested to see the detail on what constitutes a remediation of the site after it is decommissioned. For example, will the rules for abandonment of a solar farm require massive soil testing to establish the level of contamination in the soil due to leaching of contaminants from the panels into the soil? What will acceptable standards be? If contaminated soil must be removed, how will it be treated or disposed? Must it be replaced with clean soil? From where?
For wind “farms” would the rules require just the removal of the towers, nacelles and blades, or would they also require removal of the gravel construction pads and the hundreds of tons of steel and concrete of the base of each tower? Where would all of that stuff go? Where would all the non-recyclable humongous blades go?
Happily, all this stuff and much more will have to be decided and put into legislation and regulations. That will all take a very long time. In the mean time I hope solar and wind projects will be stalled in Alberta, in favor of continued use of natural gas and a possible future use of small modular nuclear reactors.
Typically they don’t remove the enormous concrete foundation on which each tower is mounted.