Yes. Everyone must decarbonize asap, Alberta included. However, as I mentioned this is not easy, nor are we close to doing it. I provided a link for quebec's fossil fuel consumption and even they are no where near ending fossil fuels. If they haven't yet, how can anyone else. It takes time. Yes we must move at all haste.
My concern, is that as a general rule politicians are great at pointing fingers as a useless misdirection. A city councillor taking a strong stance on federal gun control is a great way to appear to be doing something, while really just doing nothing. Feds and provinces bark at each other all the time rather than doing the right thing in their jurisdiction.
This is much the same. I want Alberta to shut down the fossil fuel economy, but I'm not Albertan and resources are provincial. I'm in Ontario and I want us to shut down gas power plants, home furnaces and cars and keep our industrial heartlands with cool clean electricity. That is where my fight is.
Worry about shutting down the Alberta fossil fuel economy when my province doesn't depend on it.
We are in a national housing crisis, and we aren't building homes/neighbourhoods/cities ready for the fossil fuel free future. Our economies can't do it, because we aren't ready.
Canadians have to get something through our thick skulls. Every time voters in Ontario BC and Quebec tell Alberta they can't develop their oil, they are being incompetent hypocritical assholes.
It's easy to tell another province what they can and can't do. It's cheap hollow rhetoric. What's hard is getting Ontario, BC and Quebec to be oil free. If Quebec with virtually unlimited electric power still has gas stations and extensive commercial natural gas oil refining and pipeline capacity, then how the fuck is the rest of the world supposed to?
Everyone should push hard to decarbonize their own economies before telling others what to do. As a Torontonian, I care more about GO electrification, public transit expansion, EVs, nuclear expansion, closing gas plants, making the building code close to passive house levels of insulation and airtightness and heat pumps galore.
Until everyone can fix their shit, oil and gas are neccessities. You don't fix this by constraining supply. You kill demand, then supply follows. Alberta has the right to develop it's resources. We have the right to not buy it.
In the mean time, Europe, who are far ahead of us on decarbonizing, needs our energy to get off Russian O&G. Same for all our real partners.
Yes. Everyone must decarbonize asap, Alberta included. However, as I mentioned this is not easy, nor are we close to doing it. I provided a link for quebec's fossil fuel consumption and even they are no where near ending fossil fuels. If they haven't yet, how can anyone else. It takes time. Yes we must move at all haste.
My concern, is that as a general rule politicians are great at pointing fingers as a useless misdirection. A city councillor taking a strong stance on federal gun control is a great way to appear to be doing something, while really just doing nothing. Feds and provinces bark at each other all the time rather than doing the right thing in their jurisdiction.
This is much the same. I want Alberta to shut down the fossil fuel economy, but I'm not Albertan and resources are provincial. I'm in Ontario and I want us to shut down gas power plants, home furnaces and cars and keep our industrial heartlands with cool clean electricity. That is where my fight is.
Worry about shutting down the Alberta fossil fuel economy when my province doesn't depend on it.
We are in a national housing crisis, and we aren't building homes/neighbourhoods/cities ready for the fossil fuel free future. Our economies can't do it, because we aren't ready.