With Alberta renewables ban, business common sense goes out the window

[blackpowder]

A tax to make more Belarus tractors doesn't make them better. It is seldom about better tractors.

[TOM4CWB]

The US Government spending $100 Trillion on the “New Green Deal “… is insanity. PM Trudeau is no less grounded in reality… self destructive economic and environmental terrorist deluded existential evil chaos.

[shtferbrains]

Do you have a Belarus tractor around there Chuck?

Not very usefull, but they are cheap.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Do you have a Belarus tractor around there Chuck?

Not very usefull, but they are cheap.

And unreliable, just like wind and solar. And also, just like wind and solar energy, you need to have one or more backup tractors for the Belarus for when it randomly besides to exhibit its unreliableness.

In the end, it is more expensive.
But cost per capacity on paper sure looks good.

[Robertbarlage]

Junk solar and wind power

[chuckChuck]

Its pretty clear that Danny wants to continue to subsidize the oil and gas industry and put impediments in the way of more solar and wind energy. Even though they are the lowest cost source of new generation.

Its not either renewables and non renewables, its going to be all of the above as everybody moves toward reduced carbon emissions and electrification.

The Alberta double standard on land use is a glaring example of hypocrisy.

Wind and solar will take up far less land than oil and gas do currently. And Alberta and oil companies have not funded the tens of billions in cleanup and reclamation of oil and gas. But then imposes higher standards for renewables? But they wont fix the oil and gas industries cleanup liabilities!

Meanwhile mining and extraction of the much more destructive favoured resources goes on and on?

Alberta free marketers are now picking winners and losers when it comes to business and resource development? This is completely opposite to what small government conservatives are supposed to stand for!

[Hamloc]

Its pretty clear that Danny wants to continue to subsidize the oil and gas industry and put impediments in the way of more solar and wind energy. Even though they are the lowest cost source of new generation.

Its not either renewables and non renewables, its going to be all of the above as everybody moves toward reduced carbon emissions and electrification.

The Alberta double standard on land use is a glaring example of hypocrisy.

Wind and solar will take up far less land than oil and gas do currently. And Alberta and oil companies have not funded the tens of billions in cleanup and reclamation of oil and gas. But then imposes higher standards for renewables? But they wont fix the oil and gas industries cleanup liabilities!

Meanwhile mining and extraction of the much more destructive favoured resources goes on and on?

Alberta free marketers are now picking winners and losers when it comes to business and resource development? This is completely opposite to what small government conservatives are supposed to stand for!

Let’s get this straight Chuck2. There is no doubt that there were past legislative mistakes made in relation to the regulations placed on oil companies as far as sight reclamation. Are governments not allowed to learn from their mistakes and apply what they have learned in relation to governance of new developing industries?

[chuckChuck]

Yes learn from your mistakes and do the right thing which is fix the problems of the past and apply regulations fairly without picking winners and losers.

Alberta is now discouraging billions of dollars of new investment in energy production!

That is a huge mistake, because when oil demand and prices declines which they inevitably will, then the the oil sands lose out to cleaner and lower cost producers.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Let’s get this straight Chuck2. There is no doubt that there were past legislative mistakes made in relation to the regulations placed on oil companies as far as sight reclamation. Are governments not allowed to learn from their mistakes and apply what they have learned in relation to governance of new developing industries?

That is the correct take.
He is now railing against the very issue he has been harping about all along.
What is good for the goose, isn't good for the gander apparently.

[chuckChuck]

Oil and gas and renewables should have similar land use restrictions and regulations.

Are you arguing that oil and gas should get away without strict regulations and reclamation requirements that cause far more harm over a much larger area?