Alberta

[fluffy]

Angus Reid Poll shows a province divided:

Alberta Politics: Support tilts towards backing renewable moratorium, but worries over jobs, power prices linger

"September 14, 2023 – As Alberta Premier Danielle Smith pushes back against the federal government’s plans to decarbonize the power grid, Albertans lean towards supporting the recently implemented moratorium on large-scale solar and wind projects but remain concerned about potential ripple effects on jobs and power prices.

New data from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute finds approaching half of Albertans (47%) feel the moratorium on renewable energy development to be a good idea.

However, there are many – two-in-five (40%) – who disagree. The green energy development pause is supported by a majority (55%) outside of Edmonton and Calgary. Opinions are more divided inside the province’s two largest cities, though Calgarians are more inclined to say the moratorium is a good idea than not.

At issue for the dissenters are concerns over the moratorium’s effect on what was a booming sector of the economy[1] and the jobs it created, as well as rapidly rising power prices[2] in the province. Half (50%) of Albertans say the government is “hurting jobs and the economy” with the green energy pause, while a similar number (46%) worry that it will only further increase electricity prices.

However, as Smith and the UCP prepare to battle Ottawa over its plans to institute a net-zero energy grid by 2035, there is plenty of support among Albertans to resist the federal government’s policies. Three-in-five (59%) feel the provincial government is right to push back against the federal government’s net zero plan.

Meanwhile, three months into its new mandate, the UCP government evidently has work to do on some key files. Three-in-five (60%) believe the Alberta government is performing poorly on health care, as it attempts to sort out the mess of lab testing in Calgary by undoing privatization it had implemented last year and it faces criticism for responding too slowly[3] to an E. coli outbreak which has sickened more than 250, including many children."

https://angusreid.org/alberta-danielle- ... tawa/print

[Gone_Fishin]

Here's a poll for ya: the NDP got their sorry butts handed to them, and lost badly.

[The Green Barbarian]

Here's a poll for ya: the NDP got their sorry butts handed to them, and lost badly.

And they will again. The NDP are a disease.

[d0nb]

Don Braid, NDP shill and rabid Danielle Smith hater is at it again.

Without a gun, a mask and a note to the teller, there’s no way one province can demand half the national pension fund and hope to escape with the loot. https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/colum ... cpp-assets

Even if Alberta's claim should turn out to be less than 53% of the CPP’s assets, it would still be very much to their benefit to take control of their pension plan. Like Quebecois, they could use the funds to further the interests of their own province.

[Spiff]

Moved.

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[bob vernon]

Don Braid, NDP shill and rabid Danielle Smith hater is at it again.

Without a gun, a mask and a note to the teller, there’s no way one province can demand half the national pension fund and hope to escape with the loot. https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/colum ... cpp-assets

Even if Alberta's claim should turn out to be less than 53% of the CPP’s assets, it would still be very much to their benefit to take control of their pension plan. Like Quebecois, they could use the funds to further the interests of their own province.

If all provinces used the same math as Alberta did, the provinces would be demanding between 8 and 9 times the entire CPP pool of money. This sham by Danielle Smith is part of her efforts to convince Albertans that any problems in Alberta are the doing of the rest of Canada.

[raft-cove]

It has nothing to do with that and everything to do with oil prices going up.

It's definitely true that it has everything to do with oil prices and not anything done by the incompetent UCP. And at least with oil prices rising the disastrously massive deficits caused by the incompetent Kenney and his gang of buffoons will be a bit less disastrous, and when Notley inevitably gets elected the NDP will have a bit less of a mess to clean up.

The Ghost of Covid's past has arisen from its grave.

What say you about this "Inevitable" NDP win?

[Gone_Fishin]

Notley telling porker after porker.

What's with these lyin' lefties?

https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=288012043990159

[Spiff]

New blood test for prostate cancer developed and now available in Alberta.

https://www.nanosticsdx.com/

[Veovis]

https://www.castanet.net/news/Canada/44 ... Guilbeault

Why does this guy look more and more and more like a greasy bond villian.

[Babba_not_Gump]

https://www.castanet.net/news/Canada/44 ... Guilbeault

Why does this guy look more and more and more like a greasy bond villian.

Guilbeault's comment,
"...allowing Alberta to have special treatment under the regulations would not be fair to the rest of the country".

I'll bet he has a different approach when it comes to the Maritime provinces. They burn a lot of coal out there.

[Catsumi]

https://www.castanet.net/news/Canada/44 ... Guilbeault

Why does this guy look more and more and more like a greasy bond villian.

To anyone reading the link you supplied Veovis, he seems more like Orwell’s Big Brother, complete with jackboots and a whip.

Smith, on the other hand, I’d compare to David vs Goliath

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says there will be no special treatment for Alberta when it comes to new regulations to make electricity cleaner.

Guilbeault is currently consulting on draft regulations published in August that would compel all electricity to be from renewable sources or equipped with carbon capture technology by 2035.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said this week she will use her province's sovereignty act to challenge any attempt by Ottawa to enforce that deadline.

She says Alberta is working toward a net-zero electricity grid by 2050 and that doing so by 2035 would cost Alberta rate payers a fortune or even leave them without reliable sources of power.

Guilbeault disputes that and says he wants to work with all provinces and territories to make sure the regulations work for everyone and also reduce emissions.

But he says allowing Alberta to have special treatment under the regulations would not be fair to the rest of the country

One way or the other this over-reaching, corrupt, pandering KlimateKultist govt must be reined in and mouthpieces such as Gillbeault put out to pasture, or better yet, for a long sleep

[The Green Barbarian]

https://www.castanet.net/news/Canada/44 ... Guilbeault

Why does this guy look more and more and more like a greasy bond villian.

Like the virtue-signaling with the orange shirt pin. Just completes the overall *bleep* persona. What a loser.

[fluffy]

One way or the other this over-reaching, corrupt, pandering KlimateKultist govt must be reined in and mouthpieces such as Gillbeault put out to pasture, or better yet, for a long sleep.

And yet the "KlimateKultist" vote, as you so eloquently put it, continues to grow. Climate change, along with the growing divide between the haves and have-nots will be at the centre of the next federal election, and eyes nationwide are on Danielle Smith. It doesn't take any special ability to see that the default position of right wing governments is that environmental concerns have to take second place to short term economic goals, and again it doesn't take any special ability to see the folly of putting our collective futures at risk for short term gain without considering the ultimate cost of not dealing with climate change. Ms. Smith is at the extreme end of the short-term-gain spectrum. Given the chance she would open up the Rockies to coal mining again, pull out all the stops on oil production with no thought given to cleaning up the mess that makes, and continue to sabotage efforts at developing sustainable alternative energy sources to keep her billionaire friends in fossil fuels extraction gleefully giggling all the way to the bank.

[George Orwell 1984]

Yes indeed Danielle is good news for the country . Thankfully someone is standing up for Canada and Canadians .