It’s all good , right chucky and friends?

[Blaithin]

And Saskatchewan is also installing a lot of wind and some solar and shutting down aging coal plants in favour of new gas plants.

Yeah, that hasn’t happened in Alberta at all.

[cropgrower]

what about the people that will never afford a new truck ? lower paid job just trying to keep morgage paid and kids fed , costs more to drive to work every day , carbon tax drives up cost of everything

[shtferbrains]

Thank you to all the Sask Power linemen who were out most of the night getting as much fixed as possible.

We were off for for maybe 2hrs around midnight.

Working with down high voltage power lines in the wind and rain in the dark sounds a lot worse than going out checking cows and calves a few bad nights.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Yes exactly like the much larger and more impact full increase in the price of oil and fuel because of supply and demand.

And so far the oil companies haven't sent me a rebate check for all their increased prices!

Remember when you told us you are a capitalist farmer? Enjoying unprecedented prices and profits this past couple of years.
Have you already sent out your own rebate cheques to your customers?

[fjlip]

Thank you to all the Sask Power linemen who were out most of the night getting as much fixed as possible.

We were off for for maybe 2hrs around midnight.

Working with down high voltage power lines in the wind and rain in the dark sounds a lot worse than going out checking cows and calves a few bad nights.

Around Nipawin I assume. How bad was the wind? Rain Hail?

[Guest]

SFA in the swamp

[newguy]

Yeah, that hasn’t happened in Alberta at all.

Noticed big solar panel setups in oil field areas now just going up.

[shtferbrains]

3 tenths at the yard here
West and North 1 in +
Lots of noise and wind here but no obvious damage.
Very little rain in Nipawin but sounds like big wind damage around town.
No power,cell phone,internet, land lines for a while this am.

Kind of a SHTF test run.

Had a nice camp fire breakfast.

No cows bawling for water as the power came back on.

[blackpowder]

For Tom, only his religion is getting to heaven.
For Chuck, only his vision is righteous.
When the only energy source is electricity, we shall see how the world functions without money.......

[shtferbrains]

Noticed big solar panel setups in oil field areas now just going up.

If the oil companies are taking advantage of the 100% capital cost write down plus many other incentives for green investments, who is paying for them?

[furrowtickler]

[furrowtickler]

One glaring they neglected to point out , and by far the most obvious is that this is Canada , it’s winter here 5 months of the year when mileage drops dramatically on EV’s . Cost per charge per km goes up 2-3x . That’s the reality and fact of the lack of EV adoption, especially in the prairies where distances travelled are far greater than Urban areas of Southern BC , southern Ontario and the Maritime provinces.

[Blaithin]

Noticed big solar panel setups in oil field areas now just going up.

There’s for sure two large solar farms I know of within an hour of me with at least another two planned.

Also major wind expansion going on.

If someone thinks there isn’t projects happening in Alberta then it’s because they haven’t gone for a drive.

[furrowtickler]

Ya lots of “free federal “ money getting pumped into many projects to help with big companies ESG policies. Hopefully they make a difference long term before their life expectancy hits a wall .
Cost to taxpayers is huge

[sumdumguy]

Waste money - just raise taxes, easy, peasy