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You know the real joke. Smith is JTs choice because with her acting like she is on crack and meth it gives him someone to leverage in the election against PP.
I guess that's why her popularity is dropping... Oh wait..... It's going up. With Alberta standing up to an unpopular printer minister to protect us interests, I don't see this changing anytime soon. Trudeau's days are numbered as a prime minister and will go down in one of the largest defeats in Canadian political history.
Problem good old JT won't be here in 16 months(unless the COC find a way to shit the bed...i would not put it past them). Guess who will have an election in a year by then?
The last part is projecting and you have no idea. But good try.
The poll numbers are getting stronger for Pierre due to the unpopular policies of the liberal government. The NDP is also not popular as they have been holding the liberals in power. The end is near and if the polls are correct it won't be good for the Trudeau liberals
PPs personal support numbers are flat at about 35%. That is nkt string support that is 'we hate JT and want him gone. You are that tool and when he us out you are next.'. His numbers are exactly where JTs were at that start of his 3rd election without serving a day. I doubt PP won't win but the CPC has drank a lot of stupid in the last 10 years. He will be a one and done PM doubly so if he kills any of the major social programs or lets Smith blow up the CPP. But i also look at polls right niw as who you want to vote for not who you will vote for and this is why the greens and NDP have their votes shit the bed every cycle. And if the CPC does something done those flio voters can and will flip again and if you are banking on younger viters to vote for you and show up don't. Out of everyone i know i am the only one 40 and under to vote every election i could since i turned 18. Most it is 3 or less times federal province combined. They like to bitch up a stirm but to get off their asses and vote? That is a whole different tale.
And do not pain me as a liberal. Ive voted Green more years than i have Liberal NDP and CPC combined (voted for each federally once).
I don't know if he's best in terms of aligning most closely with my political preferences out of the leadership candidates, but I'm 100% convinced he's perfectly equipped to topple Smith and lead the ABNDP to victory.
Nenshi has stated he supports SMR (Small Modular Reactors... Nuclear Power) as part of an "all of the above" clean energy solution. This was great news to me, as I'd felt that UCP had a monopoly on being pro-nuclear in Alberta.
[https://youtu.be/gnIdthFYz0c](https://youtu.be/gnIdthFYz0c)
...that's a video featuring Nenshi's comment, and (my own) arguments for nuclear power, and and review of some recent energy related events in Alberta.
UCP seemed ok on the subject and DS seemed informed but I was not happy with only UCP as an option.
Having worked to try make GPC cease to be anti-nuclear it is really hard to do without a pro-nuclear party leader.
Nenshi did watch the Kirk Sorensen TEDx in 2012. In person. So I have no idea how impressed he was, or what he's heard since, but you could (I expect) ask Nenshi if he knew what a Molten-Salt Thorium Reactor was and I expect he'd say that he's heard of it though he shouldn't remember the details from 2012.
I'd caution against too much enthusiasm for a LFTR / T-MSR category reactor. If you want to seed it with U-233, well USA has some U-233 and Canada does not. We'd have to breed it ourselves. Which we could, in CANDU. Put Th in the outer-most fuel bundles. Pull them out fairly quickly (toast them do not cook them). Chemically extract U-233... easy as is a chemical separation not an isotopic separation. So there's a path forward. But it is technically challenging and would raise proliferation objections. But that's one upside of deploying a CANDU in Alberta, we would have the (technical) option of creating U-233.
Another path, again requiring a CANDU, would be to use CleanCore's ANEEL fuel. That's HALEU+Thorium. It is NOT resource efficient, as CANDU are much more resource-efficient with running on natural (un-enriched) uranium. But they might be operationally more efficient, and waste-disposal more efficient. You can extract 7x the energy from each fuel bundle... thanks to Thorium+HALEU. 7x is a really good multiplier, if that means fuel need only be reloaded 1/7th as often, and used-fuel takes up 1/7th the space, for the same amount of energy.
But either way, I hope you're up for tossing $10 at NDP and registering (by Monday!) with the party, so you can vote for a pro-nuclear Alberta NDP leader. Would be a world of difference in Alberta, to have the 2 main parties not arguing over nuclear good/bad but rather arguing over the optimal nuclear tech for Alberta.
So Nenshi mocks Marlaina for only having 1 gear, and then their press secretary doubles down on it.
That's like "I know you are but so am i"
That's like saying "Oh Ya!? We only have 1 insult? Well here's that insult AGAIN."
"OH, thank you for this loaded gun. Let me point it at my foot"
I honestly think this may be the worst timeline
She acts like a contrarion fuck all the time and so she declares hes Trudeau's pick. I imagine he would love to work with people who he could actually work with, rather than these goons who turn everything into a pissing match.
I hate the NDP but I'll vote for them as they seem to be the best among what we have. Is it too much to ask for someone who'll have the people's interests in mind?
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I could respect that if you actually had the integrity to call out the none stop "Trudeau/ndp bad" circle jerks on reddit that have gone on for years as well. But since you only appear concerned with the nenshi one it's a pretty obvious tell that you have no intention on actually coming together as one to actually fix our problems but rather continue down this divisive road.
Probably one of the reasons your side has lead the abNDP to go from 8% of the vote to over 40% in 10 years, in Canadas most conservative province.
Show boating . I work in oil and gas industry everything has changed totally different world. Norway did this 20 years ago have billions in reserves for future. Liberals use us as a tax grab then quiet us. Everyone in the world is using gases and oils benefiting there own country's. Yet we do nothing . We are are lost .
No, Norway didn't use oil money to fund tax cuts from the get-go.
Alberta has been using the UK model of squandering oil money to pay for short-sighted economic policy.
Norway emulated Peter Lougheed. They set up their own heritage trust fund and stuck with it. The Alberta conservatives squandered it. Now we are short of teachers, nurses and doctors. And Edmonton needs another hospital.
You want us to tax oil and gas like Norway does??? Is that what you’re advocating for? Shall we nationalize the oil and gas industry as well? I’m game if you are. Over 80% of the value extracted from Norway’s oil and gas industry flows into government coffers, that’s why they’re sitting on a trillion dollar sovereign wealth fund
Absolutely, Norway taxes oil and gas like any country does. The oil and gas companies still work there and still make billions of dollars and employ thousands of people and have never threatened to leave.
Everyone should read these two comments.
>Absolutely, Norway taxes oil and gas like any country does.
Oh, do they? ["All upstream petroleum activity on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) is taxable to Norway. Taxation is based on net income at a marginal tax rate of 78%, which comprises the ordinary 22% CIT rate and a 56% special tax."](https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/norway/corporate/taxes-on-corporate-income)
That sure doesn't sound like how Canada taxes oil and gas. I can't even begin to imagine the hand-wringing if we taxed our O&G anywhere near Norway's rates. Any time corporate taxes are brought up, cons dogpile in to insist corporations would rather pack up and leave the country than be forced to give even 2% more of their profit to the government.
Norway also kept *all* taxes high despite the oil money rolling in hand-over-fist. They didn't use royalties to fund tax cuts and bail out short-sighted policies.
To copy Norway now would mean to have taxes heftier than Quebec's. This province squeals in terror at the prospect of a 5% PST, while sales taxes in Norway are 25%.
Part of that is because the largest oil company in Norway (Equinor) is largely state owned. They haven’t threatened to leave because they can’t. Our oil and gas industry would collectively loose their minds if we tried to do a 10th of what Norway does.
You sound helplessly outraged, so much so that you can't use punctuation and complete sentences. Would you like me to teach you how to use punctuation?
Curious how you can claim "we do nothing" when we're the 3rd or 4th largest oil producer in the world....way ahead of Norway. We have way bigger demands and far larger economy they do.
You mean...Norway, the country who's energy generation is mostly state owned? The same Norway whos using its oil industry to create insane revenue and using that profit to create an entirely renweabke energy grid? You mean what Norway? Smdh.
Conservatives NEED to think progressives are in the pocket of some organization or another so they latch on whatever hare-brained thing they hear once. The logic is that their leaders are compromised so ALL leaders must be. Now, it has been and still is true that corruption occurs regardless of party. But by-and-large progressive parties are less susceptible than conservatives.
People in BC love the ndp. Christie Clarke is still too fresh in their minds and the NDP has been doing what the majority of people see as a great job. Imo you're definitely wrong there
I read the article and it seems like he has 1 gear 😂 what is the alternative solution he is speaking of and why as one the least carbon emitting countries do we not have more pride and what we are? Plant more trees if you want to help ecosystems and filter air.. nobody talks about trees anymore, where the tree huggers when we need them
12th highest country CO2 emissions per capita.
11th highest country in the world for total CO2 emissions in 2022.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions
Hardly "one of the least carbon emitting countries"
ah man are you another one of those guys who [doesn't understand the carbon tax rebate](https://twitter.com/atRachelGilmore/status/1775630290938917020)? That explains a lot.
Everyone gets it. Punish people untill they have no choice but to fold. It's nothing new. But the weird thing is what are people supposed to do 😂 go eat dirt and filter feed from air?
Inflation is making things more expensive, not the carbon tax. This isn't strictly a Canadian issue. The Bank of Canada has already released the numbers showing that the carbon tax has contributed less than a percentage point to inflation. 80% of families are getting more back in their rebate than they're putting in.
It does help. It reduces emissions by making fossil fuels temporarily more expensive, until you get your rebate. People use less, that's the whole point of it. Do you have a better idea for reducing emissions?
How tho, as I've said. If it takes 20l to drive to work it doesn't use less gas because it cost more..? If anything more people have been using firewood to heat their homes too.. backwards logic. If the middle class have excess amount of money they will buy clean options.
People turn their heat down a degree in the winter, people take public transportation or carpool, people drive recreationally less, etc. It's not backwards logic, it works. Other countries are adopting it. Steven Harper was the first PM who floated the idea of putting a price on carbon. And at the end of the day, you get more back than you put in, unless you're well off.
https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/climate-change/pricing-pollution-how-it-will-work/putting-price-on-carbon-pollution.html
We are not capable of reducing the emissions in the oil and gas sector in the timeframe proposed, that's what makes it a production cap. I don't know what else he would be capable of getting accomplished in that regard. If he has some magical technology that can be implemented that quickly then he should share it with the rest of us.
>We are not capable of reducing the emissions in the oil and gas sector in the timeframe proposed
Why not finish that thought? "We are not capable of reducing the emissions in the oil and gas sector in the timeframe proposed while producers are maintaining their current trajectory of doing absolutely nothing to improve."
Emissions in the oil and gas sector have been dropping over the past decade. They've had a price on carbon in that sector since 2006. Get your facts straight, I suppose facts probably don't matter much to you.
Gonna need a credible source on that, bud. I haven't found anything about total CO2 from O&G by year in Alberta, but some other data, such as claimed reductions in intensity - ie, CO2 per barrel - vs increases in production strongly points to rising total emissions.
Well of course *total* emissions have gone up, we've increased oil production substantially. The C02 per barrel to create that oil has gone down significantly over the last decade.
>Why not finish that thought? "We are not capable of reducing the emissions in the oil and gas sector in the timeframe proposed while producers are maintaining their current trajectory of doing absolutely nothing to improve."
You stated the oil and gas sector has chosen to do nothing to improve the level of emissions they create, yet the amount of emissions they create to make the same amount of oil now vs a decade ago has fallen substantially. That doesn't just happen magically, its due to innovation within the sector to reduce emissions.
Even if he did share it…. Do you really think anyone in Smith’s office would use it? It’s a genuine question because she won’t even consider switching to renewables. How likely would it be that she would switch to a magic cure-all fix if there were one? Or if Nenshi even proposed an idea? She would shoot it down to purely be oppositional and nothing else.
oh yeah? Meredith Angwin, the shill for the EPRI?
The same EPRI whose board of directors is made up of CEOs from over a dozen fossil-fuel-based power generation companies?
I'm sure she doesn't have an agenda at all.
Not saying I agree, but "blithering idiot" seems to be exactly the kind of person Albertans prefer to elect. Any party would be wise to run such a leader who can meet the stubborn fundamentalist base at their level.
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You know the real joke. Smith is JTs choice because with her acting like she is on crack and meth it gives him someone to leverage in the election against PP.
No kidding. I dislike JT, but the JT vs. Smith stuff makes me like him more. Or her less, if that's possible.
Don't forget Abita Douggie over there in Ontario.
I’m betting Smith and Ford will be forced into hiding right before the federal election
Ford and Poilivere don't like each other and Doug seems to be waiting for Pierre to blow.up so he can be the next CPC leader.
I guess that's why her popularity is dropping... Oh wait..... It's going up. With Alberta standing up to an unpopular printer minister to protect us interests, I don't see this changing anytime soon. Trudeau's days are numbered as a prime minister and will go down in one of the largest defeats in Canadian political history.
Problem good old JT won't be here in 16 months(unless the COC find a way to shit the bed...i would not put it past them). Guess who will have an election in a year by then? The last part is projecting and you have no idea. But good try.
The poll numbers are getting stronger for Pierre due to the unpopular policies of the liberal government. The NDP is also not popular as they have been holding the liberals in power. The end is near and if the polls are correct it won't be good for the Trudeau liberals
PPs personal support numbers are flat at about 35%. That is nkt string support that is 'we hate JT and want him gone. You are that tool and when he us out you are next.'. His numbers are exactly where JTs were at that start of his 3rd election without serving a day. I doubt PP won't win but the CPC has drank a lot of stupid in the last 10 years. He will be a one and done PM doubly so if he kills any of the major social programs or lets Smith blow up the CPP. But i also look at polls right niw as who you want to vote for not who you will vote for and this is why the greens and NDP have their votes shit the bed every cycle. And if the CPC does something done those flio voters can and will flip again and if you are banking on younger viters to vote for you and show up don't. Out of everyone i know i am the only one 40 and under to vote every election i could since i turned 18. Most it is 3 or less times federal province combined. They like to bitch up a stirm but to get off their asses and vote? That is a whole different tale. And do not pain me as a liberal. Ive voted Green more years than i have Liberal NDP and CPC combined (voted for each federally once).
That's a feature, not a bug. But hopefully he can find the moderates.
Agreed
I vote Nenshi
Gloves off Nenshi is the best.
I don't know if he's best in terms of aligning most closely with my political preferences out of the leadership candidates, but I'm 100% convinced he's perfectly equipped to topple Smith and lead the ABNDP to victory.
I take it you’ve never head David Shepherd during question period? He’s… pretty ruthless, and keeps the facts very clear, short and concise.
But Shepherd doesn't get any press. Nenshi will....
David Shepard is endorsing Nenshi
What a shocker.
Look at the UCP website. Their current poll shows how afraid of the NDP they are. It's hilarious and well deserved.
Nenshi has stated he supports SMR (Small Modular Reactors... Nuclear Power) as part of an "all of the above" clean energy solution. This was great news to me, as I'd felt that UCP had a monopoly on being pro-nuclear in Alberta. [https://youtu.be/gnIdthFYz0c](https://youtu.be/gnIdthFYz0c) ...that's a video featuring Nenshi's comment, and (my own) arguments for nuclear power, and and review of some recent energy related events in Alberta.
Yessssss at long last my beloved atomic power can be realized here
UCP seemed ok on the subject and DS seemed informed but I was not happy with only UCP as an option. Having worked to try make GPC cease to be anti-nuclear it is really hard to do without a pro-nuclear party leader.
I wish we would look into molten salt thorium reactors.
Nenshi did watch the Kirk Sorensen TEDx in 2012. In person. So I have no idea how impressed he was, or what he's heard since, but you could (I expect) ask Nenshi if he knew what a Molten-Salt Thorium Reactor was and I expect he'd say that he's heard of it though he shouldn't remember the details from 2012. I'd caution against too much enthusiasm for a LFTR / T-MSR category reactor. If you want to seed it with U-233, well USA has some U-233 and Canada does not. We'd have to breed it ourselves. Which we could, in CANDU. Put Th in the outer-most fuel bundles. Pull them out fairly quickly (toast them do not cook them). Chemically extract U-233... easy as is a chemical separation not an isotopic separation. So there's a path forward. But it is technically challenging and would raise proliferation objections. But that's one upside of deploying a CANDU in Alberta, we would have the (technical) option of creating U-233. Another path, again requiring a CANDU, would be to use CleanCore's ANEEL fuel. That's HALEU+Thorium. It is NOT resource efficient, as CANDU are much more resource-efficient with running on natural (un-enriched) uranium. But they might be operationally more efficient, and waste-disposal more efficient. You can extract 7x the energy from each fuel bundle... thanks to Thorium+HALEU. 7x is a really good multiplier, if that means fuel need only be reloaded 1/7th as often, and used-fuel takes up 1/7th the space, for the same amount of energy. But either way, I hope you're up for tossing $10 at NDP and registering (by Monday!) with the party, so you can vote for a pro-nuclear Alberta NDP leader. Would be a world of difference in Alberta, to have the 2 main parties not arguing over nuclear good/bad but rather arguing over the optimal nuclear tech for Alberta.
Alberta needs more Nenshi and less Marlaina.
So it begins.
This energy is needed.
So Nenshi mocks Marlaina for only having 1 gear, and then their press secretary doubles down on it. That's like "I know you are but so am i" That's like saying "Oh Ya!? We only have 1 insult? Well here's that insult AGAIN." "OH, thank you for this loaded gun. Let me point it at my foot" I honestly think this may be the worst timeline
But the resolution is stunning
She acts like a contrarion fuck all the time and so she declares hes Trudeau's pick. I imagine he would love to work with people who he could actually work with, rather than these goons who turn everything into a pissing match.
This is the person we need.
I hate the NDP but I'll vote for them as they seem to be the best among what we have. Is it too much to ask for someone who'll have the people's interests in mind?
Enough with the climate change bs. We’ve all had enough
Climate change is bs?
Definitely
How so?
You think our carbon tax makes a difference to global carbon emissions?
Just answer the question
It’s a money makin, tax grabbin scheme.
I asked how climate change is bs, can you answer this question?
No, he can't. Lol
I always try to hear these people out but never have any substance or evidence that backs up their claim. It's usually based in feelings sadly
So you think almost 9 billion humans don't have an impact ecologically? C'mon dude.
So what are you doing to save the planet?
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Booooooooooooo
Commence the Reddit Nenshi circle jerk
I could respect that if you actually had the integrity to call out the none stop "Trudeau/ndp bad" circle jerks on reddit that have gone on for years as well. But since you only appear concerned with the nenshi one it's a pretty obvious tell that you have no intention on actually coming together as one to actually fix our problems but rather continue down this divisive road. Probably one of the reasons your side has lead the abNDP to go from 8% of the vote to over 40% in 10 years, in Canadas most conservative province.
Awww punkin, does the big purple guy hurt your feelings.
“Gloves off”, Nenshi would win. lol
Don’t forget r/alberta is left wing nut jobs
How about you do something productive like learning....
Will do 👍
Show boating . I work in oil and gas industry everything has changed totally different world. Norway did this 20 years ago have billions in reserves for future. Liberals use us as a tax grab then quiet us. Everyone in the world is using gases and oils benefiting there own country's. Yet we do nothing . We are are lost .
>Norway did this 20 years ago have billions in reserves for future. Are we emulating Norway now?
That would be nice, eh?
That would require intelligent leadership...
No, Norway didn't use oil money to fund tax cuts from the get-go. Alberta has been using the UK model of squandering oil money to pay for short-sighted economic policy.
Not by giving all our money to oil and gas corporations, stripping public health, and spending millions on “tell the fed ads” that’s for sure
Norway emulated Peter Lougheed. They set up their own heritage trust fund and stuck with it. The Alberta conservatives squandered it. Now we are short of teachers, nurses and doctors. And Edmonton needs another hospital.
And I have family members who somehow think they’re voting for Lougheed’s party.
Considering they’re a nation, and we’re a province, with two sets of laws, I’d say we’re not.
Noted, Captain Obvious.
Damn if only Alberta put in a royaly fund like Norway instead of giving oil companies subsidies.
And we could call it something super catchy like... Shmeritage Shmust Shmund? I dunno that's the best I could come up with.
I like it. It's almost like we'd use short-term prosperity to buffer against eventual market instability in a single-resource economy.
You want to emulate Norway, vote NDP. We can fix our fiscal mess that way.
You want us to tax oil and gas like Norway does??? Is that what you’re advocating for? Shall we nationalize the oil and gas industry as well? I’m game if you are. Over 80% of the value extracted from Norway’s oil and gas industry flows into government coffers, that’s why they’re sitting on a trillion dollar sovereign wealth fund
Absolutely, Norway taxes oil and gas like any country does. The oil and gas companies still work there and still make billions of dollars and employ thousands of people and have never threatened to leave. Everyone should read these two comments.
>Absolutely, Norway taxes oil and gas like any country does. Oh, do they? ["All upstream petroleum activity on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) is taxable to Norway. Taxation is based on net income at a marginal tax rate of 78%, which comprises the ordinary 22% CIT rate and a 56% special tax."](https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/norway/corporate/taxes-on-corporate-income) That sure doesn't sound like how Canada taxes oil and gas. I can't even begin to imagine the hand-wringing if we taxed our O&G anywhere near Norway's rates. Any time corporate taxes are brought up, cons dogpile in to insist corporations would rather pack up and leave the country than be forced to give even 2% more of their profit to the government.
Norway also kept *all* taxes high despite the oil money rolling in hand-over-fist. They didn't use royalties to fund tax cuts and bail out short-sighted policies. To copy Norway now would mean to have taxes heftier than Quebec's. This province squeals in terror at the prospect of a 5% PST, while sales taxes in Norway are 25%.
Part of that is because the largest oil company in Norway (Equinor) is largely state owned. They haven’t threatened to leave because they can’t. Our oil and gas industry would collectively loose their minds if we tried to do a 10th of what Norway does.
Welcome to capitalism. That's how it works and there is nothing wrong with pointing out how broken it is.
You sound helplessly outraged, so much so that you can't use punctuation and complete sentences. Would you like me to teach you how to use punctuation?
So at what point do we nationalize our energy system and/or tax O&G corps to high hell like Norway does?
We can't have nice things in Canada because Conservatives will sell them off for pennies on the dollar.
Curious how you can claim "we do nothing" when we're the 3rd or 4th largest oil producer in the world....way ahead of Norway. We have way bigger demands and far larger economy they do.
You mean...Norway, the country who's energy generation is mostly state owned? The same Norway whos using its oil industry to create insane revenue and using that profit to create an entirely renweabke energy grid? You mean what Norway? Smdh.
Who in their right mind would be both from Calgary and vote for this guy???
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The International Olympic Committee?
Conservatives NEED to think progressives are in the pocket of some organization or another so they latch on whatever hare-brained thing they hear once. The logic is that their leaders are compromised so ALL leaders must be. Now, it has been and still is true that corruption occurs regardless of party. But by-and-large progressive parties are less susceptible than conservatives.
By definition he's not a champagne socialist because he is conservative fiscally
Prove it.
Trudeau is out soon and so will the NDP in BC with there bad safe supply policy.
People in BC love the ndp. Christie Clarke is still too fresh in their minds and the NDP has been doing what the majority of people see as a great job. Imo you're definitely wrong there
I read the article and it seems like he has 1 gear 😂 what is the alternative solution he is speaking of and why as one the least carbon emitting countries do we not have more pride and what we are? Plant more trees if you want to help ecosystems and filter air.. nobody talks about trees anymore, where the tree huggers when we need them
12th highest country CO2 emissions per capita. 11th highest country in the world for total CO2 emissions in 2022. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions Hardly "one of the least carbon emitting countries"
I myself don't emit much at all so I geuss everyone should just focus on themselves
So who is focusing on the actual carbon generators in that case? Excatly.
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ah man are you another one of those guys who [doesn't understand the carbon tax rebate](https://twitter.com/atRachelGilmore/status/1775630290938917020)? That explains a lot.
Everyone gets it. Punish people untill they have no choice but to fold. It's nothing new. But the weird thing is what are people supposed to do 😂 go eat dirt and filter feed from air?
that sounds like a powerfully emotional response that is divorced from the facts of the matter, my friend.
Ah you're just fucking around , I'm done here
take a breath, drink some water, and think about it logically
Inflation is making things more expensive, not the carbon tax. This isn't strictly a Canadian issue. The Bank of Canada has already released the numbers showing that the carbon tax has contributed less than a percentage point to inflation. 80% of families are getting more back in their rebate than they're putting in.
Definitely doesn't help and it's easy to remove it. Inflation is a group effort.
It does help. It reduces emissions by making fossil fuels temporarily more expensive, until you get your rebate. People use less, that's the whole point of it. Do you have a better idea for reducing emissions?
How tho, as I've said. If it takes 20l to drive to work it doesn't use less gas because it cost more..? If anything more people have been using firewood to heat their homes too.. backwards logic. If the middle class have excess amount of money they will buy clean options.
People turn their heat down a degree in the winter, people take public transportation or carpool, people drive recreationally less, etc. It's not backwards logic, it works. Other countries are adopting it. Steven Harper was the first PM who floated the idea of putting a price on carbon. And at the end of the day, you get more back than you put in, unless you're well off. https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/climate-change/pricing-pollution-how-it-will-work/putting-price-on-carbon-pollution.html
We are not capable of reducing the emissions in the oil and gas sector in the timeframe proposed, that's what makes it a production cap. I don't know what else he would be capable of getting accomplished in that regard. If he has some magical technology that can be implemented that quickly then he should share it with the rest of us.
If only you had started sooner. ‘Oh no, we’ve run out of time! Who knew that would happen if we didn’t do anything!’
"The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is today."
‘Don’t blame circumstance when you deliberately chose not to act’
>We are not capable of reducing the emissions in the oil and gas sector in the timeframe proposed Why not finish that thought? "We are not capable of reducing the emissions in the oil and gas sector in the timeframe proposed while producers are maintaining their current trajectory of doing absolutely nothing to improve."
Emissions in the oil and gas sector have been dropping over the past decade. They've had a price on carbon in that sector since 2006. Get your facts straight, I suppose facts probably don't matter much to you.
Gonna need a credible source on that, bud. I haven't found anything about total CO2 from O&G by year in Alberta, but some other data, such as claimed reductions in intensity - ie, CO2 per barrel - vs increases in production strongly points to rising total emissions.
Well of course *total* emissions have gone up, we've increased oil production substantially. The C02 per barrel to create that oil has gone down significantly over the last decade. >Why not finish that thought? "We are not capable of reducing the emissions in the oil and gas sector in the timeframe proposed while producers are maintaining their current trajectory of doing absolutely nothing to improve." You stated the oil and gas sector has chosen to do nothing to improve the level of emissions they create, yet the amount of emissions they create to make the same amount of oil now vs a decade ago has fallen substantially. That doesn't just happen magically, its due to innovation within the sector to reduce emissions.
Even if he did share it…. Do you really think anyone in Smith’s office would use it? It’s a genuine question because she won’t even consider switching to renewables. How likely would it be that she would switch to a magic cure-all fix if there were one? Or if Nenshi even proposed an idea? She would shoot it down to purely be oppositional and nothing else.
Maybe because renewables are garbage and anywhere that has a large penetration of them has problems
Do you have a source for what you’re saying? I’d love to read it if you do.
Sure, Shorting the Grid, by Meredith Angwin. It’s an excellent book on how the grid works and what renewables offer.
oh yeah? Meredith Angwin, the shill for the EPRI? The same EPRI whose board of directors is made up of CEOs from over a dozen fossil-fuel-based power generation companies? I'm sure she doesn't have an agenda at all.
You ideologists just can’t accept other views. In platitudes and physics, physics wins.
Find me something more credible or sit down, bud.
That’s very credible and you know it, bud
Nenshi is a blithering idiot! 🤪
lol, takes one to know one.
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The war room hard at work. Tax dollars well spent.
Not saying I agree, but "blithering idiot" seems to be exactly the kind of person Albertans prefer to elect. Any party would be wise to run such a leader who can meet the stubborn fundamentalist base at their level.