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Originally Posted by PostandIn
I’m still ####ing amazed that people think the Prime Minister and Minister of the Environment aren’t anything but climate ideologues when they impose policy on the country (read Alberta and Saskatchewan) that just isn’t ####ing achievable. Imagine how delusional you have to be to abolish natural gas in a matter of decades WITHOUT A WHISPER of what technology(ies) will replace those joules. ####ing amazing how these pure imbeciles get re-elected. You are right. People are too stupid for democracy.
With KNOWN AND RELIABLE technologies, transitioning our economy and energy system is a 40-50 year project. We actually can’t keep lights on with the simplistic binary argument that you frame every utterance of Daniel Smith on energy policy. We get it Fuzz: Danielle Smith is malign and uninformed, on every policy position, every time. I bet she hasn’t even seen Don’t Look Up!
We need practical solutions that industry and the public can absorb and support, that move with RELIABLE technology and with an understanding of the country’s capacity to change. Not unilateral imposition of the latest, completely disconnected from reality, idea of a radicalized greenpeace activist, who had the good fortune of stumbling off the second floor balcony of the court house, to fall magically into a chair at the Trudeau cabinet table.
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It's not that there are not challenges in Alberta that have to be been solved. I've brought up winter green energy storage issues before, and that we'd need to build baseload to handle that. The issues is that everything is a war with her, she blatantly lies about what the feds propose, and she has zero interest finding solutions that don't fit her narrow world-view.
Is Steven Guilbeault also awful? Yes, he is. But lets face it, these goals are just that. Goals, targets, etc. Why not see how far we can get, and take the federal money that will help? Why kill a booming modern industry? I'll tell you this much, O&G jobs are not coming back, and as someone in the industry(not sure how much longer, given the trajectory) I'd really love it if there was some help for me to transition my career, but the ideological premier will have none of that.