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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
Well another problem with your original post is the premise that Notley has already committed/is guaranteed to just rubber stamp any plan without any further consideration or due diligence. Which seems incredibly unlikely.
We know where the world of energy generation is evolving. We can cover our ears + stamp our feet, or we can be at the forefront of the change, or something in between. I don't know exactly what Notley said about this, but that would be an important detail for the discussion, and parsing her words would probably be the most important first step before we fuss over the policy details (because it may not matter)
Your points about not having time for all of this is totally fair. But you probably spent 5-10 minutes regurgitating a low value email...seems like it would be better to just source a link and then the hive can help chew the food
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The cool thing about a free market power system with an escalating carbon tax is that it will almost certainly get to a zero carbon energy mix, unless the remaining carbon in the mix is very necessary (eg might end up with a few gas peaker plants). Continuing to escalate the cost of carbon emissions over time is way better than any mandate based approach.