I do agree with her here though. Wind and solar are not 100% reliable and there are going to be times that you need baseload capacity to cover their shortfalls.
So either you improve the provincial interties to accommodate when Alberta needs it (buy power from the USA, BC/Sask), or you turn to nuclear, gas or coal plants. Likely gas because nuclear takes forever to build, and coal won't work for obvious environmental reasons. Gas turbines can be immediately brought on when load is required and they're a lot easier to get built in comparison.
Pretty sure it was Germany that already went through this exercise and learned the hard way that you need to be able to cover baseload when renewables aren't running.
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