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Originally Posted by Yoho
Not quite
https://www.power-eng.com/coal/alber...-be-coal-free/
“ But in 2015, Rachel Notley's Alberta NDP government accelerated the phase-out of the province's six youngest coal units, owned by TransAlta, ATCO, and Capital Power. The provincial government also announced it would align with the Federal government's 2030 target to phase out coal altogether.” |
From your article:
"In mid-2017, ATCO and TransAlta—the two biggest coal power producers in Alberta—announced plans to
convert their coal units to natural gas. ATCO planned to make the swicth by 2020, and TransAlta planned to do the same by the end of 2023. ATCO ultimately chose to sell all its Canadian-based fossil-fuel assets, including nine units in Alberta."
or
"Even as recently as March 2019, coal plants provided 35% of the province’s electricity. But Alberta Associate Minister of Natural Gas and Electricity Dale Nally said that over the past two years, around 5,000 MW – or 30% — of the installed coal-fired capacity was either
converted to natural gas or retired altogether."
The NDP incentivised the conversion of coal generation to nat gas. Trying to make it sound like they walked in and simply shut plants down is hilariously incorrect. When this was going down I worked with a subsidiary of Babcock Power on some of the conversions in the USA and in Canada where the ones that were retired were either too inefficient to be converted or were past their life cycles. Some are also still running btw.
This isn't an NDP problem, it isn't a Trudeau problem.
It's a deregulation problem that was CREATED by conservatives.