Lessons from an Alberta power market on the brink

[chuckChuck]

Goalie, Even without subsidies on Lazard the LCOE renewables are some of the lowest cost new electricity in the world and that's why investment in renewables is getting close to investment in new oil and gas development, according to the IEA.

Economics is why Alberta has so many renewables being installed.

Now Danny wants to pick the winners and losers like a good free market capitalist er I mean socialist government. She wants to interfere in the market. Surprise surprise. We don't want to let those greenies upset the petro cart!

[WiltonRanch]

Tell that to the oil companies who covered a way more good ag land for many decades and you never said a thing!

Oil companies could afford to pay enough for leases pumping or not to keep farmers happy for the inconvenience. Myself I really wouldn’t care if a wind farm or solar array was put on my land but the footprint sure is a lot more than a lease. In fact the new tech now multi leg wells off of one lease shrink the footprint to f all. At the end of life of the lease the well is killed and capped and above ground remediation is done with cats in a matter of several days. From what I understand these large windmills require a deep concrete base and solar arrays are sprayed with copious amounts of soil sterilants. It would in my opinion be better if livestock were grazed around them instead. What does remediation of a wind farm look like? Danni Smith whom you really love to hate told these wind and solar outfits she wanted a plan and some money put into a kitty like oil companies do for any new wells so we don’t have a future mess with abandoned infrastructure like we do now. Is that not fair?

[chuckChuck]

The Alberta hypocrites can't even clean up their oil wells and you are bitchin about the renewable industry? Only in Alberta.

Where was the moratorium on oil and gas development untill they put a workable costed plan in place?

Alberta the land of double standards!

[Hamloc]

Tell that to the oil companies who covered a way more good ag land for many decades and you never said a thing!

Actually Chuck2, there are numerous oil leases on the land I farm. In many cases I am payed for 5 acres of which 3 I can still farm.

[fjlip]

"these large windmills require a deep concrete base and solar arrays are sprayed with copious amounts of soil sterilants. It would in my opinion be better if livestock were grazed around them instead. "

Rather permanent, costs to remove be as much as install! Kind of exponentially more expensive than covering a hole in the ground!