Alberta Sovereignty Act: How does Premier Danielle Smith plan to get around clean electricity rules?
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- Опубліковано 26 лис 2023
- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has invoked the province's Sovereignty Act for the first time in the legislation's history.
It's a continuation of Smith’s push-back at the federal government's proposed clean electricity regulations, saying it could negatively affect Alberta’s natural-gas-based grid.
Global's Heather Yourex-West explains how Smith intends to try to get around Ottawa's plans and how the Canadian federal government is reacting.
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Great to hear that some have the guts to act against government overreach
You must mean sleazy oil company profits - heard about another spill today 👍😈👍
Keep up the good work 😐
She admitted, the act is symbolic, plus we know it is a political distraction from domestic issues in Alberta. Using an Alberta act that probably will not stand up in court as an act to prevent regulations that don’t exist that would kick in, in over a decade is sabre rattling.
@@rps1689 Sabres are pretty cool
@@greghallberg4182 are you gonna cry?
@@greghallberg4182hater
Alberta already won in the Supreme Court of Canada about this topic. Isn't the Canadian Government breaking the law?
I am above ze law!
To add to their long long list
Nope; different issue. The last Supreme Court ruling tossing out much of Canada’s environmental assessment law will have no impact whatsoever on oilsands emissions caps or clean electricity regulations to the chagrin of the UCP. Going to be one big uphill battle for Alberta to challenge new greenhouse gas emission law; and the latest Supreme Court decision doesn’t change that nor does the Alberta Sovereignty Act. Revisions will have to made to federal regulations that are not complete plus it would take over a decade before they take effect if the the UCP choses to apply its Sovereignty Act on its issue.
not so, not the same
Huh! When?
Good for AB and Smith!!!
Every province needs to fight back like this. Also no more "equalization" funds being sent to Quebec. She is how a real leader operates.
This is how a separatist leader in the pocket of the fossil fuel industry operates.
Worst part is if you talk to a Quebecer they will not say they are Canadian. To them they are Quebecois, they don't fly Canadian flags or anything.
@@tylersmith9868 thats not even close to true. You can tell youve never met someone from quebec in their life. As if flying a flag or not should have anything to do with equalization payments in the first place. You sound so butthurt about a flag. ❄️ alert
@@werunapologeticallyprolife2279 You want to separate instead of making a clean power grid? This is the line for you?
@@zwicker5585 lol.I live in Quebec dude
Final solution may be to separate
Alberta needs it's own currency separate from the rest of the country
Alberta simply shut off the payments to Ottawa what are they going to do
Send in the military. That's a straight up Coup you're talking about.
Counterbalance with not sending back federal taxes to account for the difference?
@@Dstinct then we will just stop paying federal taxes all together. Alberta has already been ripped off hard by confederation. We have paid $650 billion more than we've recieved from the federal government. All Ottawa does is use AB as a cash cow for this failed confederation. We have had enough.
Alberta is in the right.
-From BC
What a great woman! You know it's awesome when the media tells you it isn't!
That's what I always say. When MSM and the Liberal/NDP are against it it has to be good.
Federal "laws" in provincial jurisdiction is nothing but a complete contradiction... much like the "free" press receiving government funding...
Danielle Smith is a political rockstar 👍👍👍
I mean if Alberta wants to not take use of federal laws for the import and export of crude oil.... oh wait they can't.
Why are you pretending that provinces are independent countries? The federal government is in charge of the country, which *checks notes* Alberta is in.
@@Cheapiebeepieread the Constitution because you don't understand the separation of provincial and federal powers.
Also what if Alberta were to separate and refuse to propane the next time Quebec hospitals are in a looming power crisis?
@@Cheapiebeepieyou sound like a communists. Better check the constitution.
Because they don't understand the constitution. That's why they keep asking you to check it for them.@@Cheapiebeepie
She’s great
Thanks Danielle Smith for standing up for Alberta. I wish Doug Ford had balls but he is too busy handling Justin’s 😂
Really? Your kids must be so proud of you.
@@rickbaker8188 Please, you can't even convince yourself Ontario & Canada are a beakin of strength at this time. We all deserve better.
I support the Alberta Govt. sovereignty plan.
interesting, what areas to u get federal transfer payments for today......very interesting
@@RodneyWolfram good English Rodney. I completely understand your statement.
Wait until the next bust.... and the oil and gas goons are unemployed. Wonder if they will be looking for anything from Ottawa. Alberta is like a whiney little step child in this country.
@@RealisticRick27exactly. Alberta is that 13 year old girl who threatens to run away from home when she doesn't get a pony for her bday
Alberta needs to grow up and start acting like it deserves to be part of this, or any country.
Canada is a NATION of PROVINCES.
Not some loose amalgamation of rivaling, uncooperative "states".
Alberta strong!
Support from BC to our Alberta brothers and sisters. The fight is only starting and we will be triumphant.
I would love it if the west teams up and breaks off from Canada! We all pay way to much to the feds.
4pm and its getting dark already yeah that solar power guy is out to lunch on this one
Wish BC would join Alberta and just be our own thing. 🤭
Then elect a non-communists government.
Not w Van in the picture.
Bc is part of the problem in canada, they vote ndp
BC certainly doesn't want to be part of that clown show. Good luck being landlocked. Maybe you can join your Maga friends down south.
I'm in bc and most people I know who live here would leave with alberta we are sick of not having a say in this country
God Bless Alberta !
The Liberals are acting like fools.
They are not acting…
ya as if smoothy
So is the ucp.
Don’t forget Gagmeat Singh and the NDP.
Plenty of foolishness to go around, but federal foolishness doesn't excuse provincial foolishness.
I hope Pierre first order of business when elected is to pull all federal funding from k bill it just the CBS but all media company’s in Canada.
Hell yes, we should sell CBC to the Americans since they already own most of our other media. Canada should be more like the US!!!
The thing global news needs to understand is that the federal government doesn't rule Canada, Canada is built up an an agreement between separate provinces to work together it's what makes it possible for provinces to separate from the whole. Each province has the authority to govern themselves independently and if necessary separate from the union. The current green energy goals would destroy not only our economy but also our power grid as over 70% of our power comes from gas, propane or coal energy it's not possible to build up enough infrastructure fast enough and with a push for electric cars putting strain on the grid it's even more unfeasible they'd either have to take away our homes and cars and force us all into some kind of 15 minute districts where you could walk everywhere or push the goalposts back significantly. I wonder which they'd chose 🤔
Not exactly. The constitution lays out what powers the federal government and the provinces have (i.e., jurisdictions) but the Supreme Court has ruled that provinces do not have a right of unilateral succession.
That said, it’s understood that Alberta loves burning fossil fuels because they are a huge revenue source for the province. Moving to “cleaner technologies” means the province won’t generate the same amount of revenue.
@allan6021 it's not just that it is currently impossible to completely separate from fossil fuels , almost everything we use is derived from fossil fuels in one way or another there also isn't enough graphene or toxic lithium in the world to make enough electric cars for every person, on top of this they've been having issues with electric vehicles spontaneously combustion because not only is battery grade lithium highly toxic Making it so they can't be recycled but it's also highly reactivate and flammable and burns so hot it can't be put out . The only way we could feasibly reach their goals is if we switched to clean nuclear energy but they won't do that. Solar, electric, water based energies produce very little energy and because it depends on the environmental conditions it's also not a dependable and consistent source of energy, on top of this the majority of homes in Canada are heated by either gas or propane the cost to convert those homes to electric costs tens of thousands of dollars that most Canadians don't have and that the government doesn't have the money to pay for as we're also heading into a second great depression where banks are predicting 25% of Canadians or more will lose their homes by the end of 2025.
Another note oil is not causing climate change. If you understand anything about the earth you'd know that there were at least 6 ice ages we scientifically know about. In order for an ice age to end the temperature has to rise, we also know that at one point carbon levels were significantly higher than they are today, in order for plant life which gives us oxygen to survive the earth needs between 400 to 1500ppm of atmospheric carbon currently we're just a little over the 400ppm margin, if we fall below that trees begin to die and we face extinction. Last year nasa also released a 10 year study as well showing no change in global temperatures, which is why they're calling it climate change and not global warming now. Every decade they change the thing to be afraid of at one point it was Y2k then it was an ice age is coming, then global warming, now climate change, other things like Miami being underwater also haven't happened. But that persistent fear is an excellent tool for control and pushing agendas. Look at covid for example the death rate never exceeded 1% , it never even hit pandemic levels but through it they were able to get around medical laws for vaccine and drug development, they destroyed the Nuremberg code that requires informed consent, took away bodily autonomy rights, they used it to target people who question things and don't just follow, now they're pushing new vaccines and drugs out with hardly any regulation when it used to require 10 years to determine risk factors. And now we have all cause mortality rates that are growing year over year and huge drops in fertility rates globally and we don't even question it.
The moral of the story is that if you keep people afraid they're easy to control, tens of thousands of scientists signed a petition stating there was no climate emergency but no one will listen, just like the Barrington declaration that challenged the safety of covid policies that got buried. Ask yourself why did they call ivermectin horse paste and have it banned for treatment of covid then this year after declaring the pandemic over they approved it for treatment of covid. The answer: because under the law it is illegal to use a vaccine during a pandemic without first exhausting every means of treatment. If covid and HQ were allowed to be used then the pandemic would have ended early and they couldn't have made hundreds of billions of dollars off the experimental vaccines that used a technology they previously couldn't even get past animal trials with because too many animals died. And I trust our courts right now about as much as I trust our government, when Brian peckford went to court against Trudeau for violating our rights and the court shut down the case because they said Trudeau stopped violating our rights therefore the case was moot that said everything right there. And the constitution has nothing to do with provincial jurisdiction the constitution outlines the rights of Canadians and regulates government powers but has nothing to do with the original formation of Canada and the sovereign powers of each province under that arrangement. Just like the US states Canadian provinces have the authority to separate from the body of Canada or tell the federal powers to piss off if their decisions will harm the citizens of their province.
Example alberta kicked out the RCMP and formed their own replacement, Saskatchewan kicked out the CRA and formed a replacement, alberta is pulling out of CPP and replacing it, they also pulled out of federal Healthcare and are replacing it. Each province also owns their military bases and is entitled to military assets upon separation there's also the law no taxation without representation which is how alberta passed the carbon tax repeal act to withhold their contribution to the horrendous tax. In a democracy the people are the power and the government is supposed to represent the will of the people and right now they've forgotten their place.
@user-vt6qb3ze5r if you want to get real technical, Canada technically only exists because the crown allows us to.
Unlike the United States Canada negotiated our independence from Britain, as such we are part of the commonwealth of Britain. If our government steps out of line Britain has the authority to overrule our federal government and take charge. Under the initial arrangement we are essentially a commonwealth or democratic republic. Whereas the United States is a constitutional republic with the constitution being the highest rule of law.both countries however were formed as a commonwealth agreement between various states or provinces to work together for the better of the whole as such any state or province can chose to leave at any time thus the federal government only has limited authority.
One example of this is the constitutions of both nations had to be agreed upon by all provincial or state leaders. In 1982 when Canada formed its own constitution as previously it had been still using the constitution of Britain Pierre Elliott Trudeau sought to circumvent the authority of the provincial leaders because he didn't like the freedoms they wanted to give us so he tried to force his own constitution on us. The premiers at the time took Trudeau to court and the court ruled he violated the sanctity of the provincial authority and court ordered him to sign the constitution act 1982 written by the whole of Canada.
Currently none of our systems to keep government in check are functioning. The prime Minister should not be appointing his own ethics commissioner , he shouldn't have been allowed to appoint the person who investigated or ruled on his actions during the convoy, he was found guilty multiple times for ethics violations with no consequences, he fired the previous rcmp commissioner for investigating him and chose who the replacement would be, and he's violated almost all of our constitutional rights, he committed multiple acts of treason and still holds office, at this point we can't even trust the courts the reality is if the federal government had any actual authority the west wouldn't have kicked out the rcmp, pulled out of CPP, put together a replacement for the cra, passed a bill to repeal Trudeaus carbon tax and more. On top of this provinces can pass their own laws and bills they can even make their own trade agreements separate from federal trade agreements, provinces hold authority over their resources. Our federal governments job is to allocate funding, oversee the military and diplomacy in the simplest terms . During covid they actually broke the law aside from all the other laws they broke during covid under Canadian law each individual province is required to come up with their own plan during a pandemic, crisis etc, instead the federal government put down their fist and laid mandates across the board. The idea is to end up with multiple approaches to the problem to find the best course of action sooner then move towards uniformity. Hopefully this answers your questions
@user-vt6qb3ze5r sorry my answers are so long but I always feel like the details are important even if most haven't the patience to read through.
Seriously, you quote Pembina as your first third party?? What a joke!
I hope she just flat out ignores any and all nonsensical "rules". Enough is enough. Ottawa needs Alberta not the other way around
(like we are in school again. Rules =/= laws)
Go Smith!
Cheers from the east coast, God bless Alberta, EASILY among my top 3 personal provinces even if it’s not where I am from, I miss it, and Alberta DOES NOT deserve Trudeau’s horrendous treatment.
Alberta is amazing, and Danielle Smith feels like “One of the b’ys.” A strong woman who can handle and be charismatic in a familiar way among male company.
She has my trust, and will hold it if she keeps up the good fight for Albertans.
“All Hell for a Basement,” by Big Sugar.
Bravo 👏
“Get around clean electricity rules” lol Canadians are done with “government rules”. Then you show steven who is a ccp operative. My faith is 100% gone and unrecoverable for msm.
Pembina Institute a Liberal think tank. C’mon Global find someone who knows the flaws of wind and solar in Alberta.
Do you know them?
@@danieldickson8591yes they don't work if the sun doesn't shine or wind isn't blowing and storage at this point is costly and inefficient, need base load power to subsidize green energy
@@danieldickson8591Solar panels contain toxic material mind in China with slave labour. In theory they last 20 years. Lucky to get 5. Then they go into the ground to poison our water systems,
Wind power, they type being used, drips toxic waste into the land poison the land for miles around. The blades can not be recycled and wear out often. They kill birds when on land and both birds and whales in the ocean.
Electric vehicles involve toxic materials mind by child slave labour in Africa. They are an environmental nightmare to make. The batteries need to be replaced on average every 4 to 5 years, doubling the negative impact. Costing almost a new car again.
Most of the electric to run them comes from clear cutting forests, I have seen the damage or from coal.
If they catch on fire, all those toxins go into our air, and unlike carbon, which is helping to green the Sahara, this is pure, unnatural poison.
While less likely to catch fire in an accident, they are more likely to catch fire a few hours later or for nor reason at all. Fire departments need special equipment to deal with those fires. And if you are in the car when it catches fire you are dead.
The great city fires of the past will seem like jokes once every driveway has a fire Hazzard parked in it.
Many insurance companies are starting to refuse to cover them.
If you are wondering whate the green part is, it is the money that goes go the rich B a s Tards on the WEF, the virtue signaling Nazis reimagined.
During the time of Henry the Eighth it was two degrees warmer. Why did Herr Trudulf have decades of Canadian climate history erased on the excuse it might be a fraction of a degree off?
Heat pumps are only useful to minus 10, if you have one of the ones that work to minus 28. At minus 28 you need to stand on a chair with your hand against it to feel anything.
We do have a wood stove. It uses half the wood and burns the smoke. Water vapor leaves. The wood comes from proper forest management, not clear cutting. Prevents forest fires and saves habitat.
Now where we live wind power would work on a household basis and without the toxic sludge. But governments do not support that. No money for WEF.
Also Herr Trudulf did everything they could to stop the tidal power. It has been made safe for wildlife. But again no money for his WEF or Chinese masters.
❤ Alberta
Why would anyone "fight back" against cleaning up our act so that future generations still have a home?
Current generations can’t get homes. Keep up.
@@firstandforemost87or groceries
I guess we are the carbon that's supposed to be reduced
It will take generations for Canada to recover from the corrupt authoritarian Trudeau regime
What have you personally done to improve the environment. How poor are you willing to be to not make a difference in the carbon content. Please do some research and think. Kind regards
@@firstandforemost87 I was talking about the Earth. It's weird how people are so brainwashed that they blame renewables rather than energy companies for this energy crisis. Oil and gas caused this. Not transitioning away from them will only make things worse.
I vote for whoever gives grief to Ottawa. Happy it's her and not Notley
So glad we have a government that stands up for Albertans. She is 100% correct, I work on the grid.
Why? Renewables have become more efficient than fossil fuels. And the other commentary is rightm no one will want to invest into Alberta with these policies. Like atleast invest in nuclear if you must absolutely have some giant eyesore. Also, you guys didn't elect her. There was no election
FREEEEEDUMB 🇨🇦🔥
@@coffeecake323 What kind of investments? In stupid costly to maintain and recycle green energy?
@@coffeecake323 100% correct, this is all grandstanding to show the oil companies she has their backs. A big waste of tax payer dollars on a futile legal process that will do nothing but make lawyers on both sides money.
@@coffeecake323Alberta is actually implementing renewables really quickly right now, and has been phasing out coal plants. Her rhetoric is completely disconnected from the reality of what’s going on there. It seems to just be some sort of performance, like she’s picking a fight for no reason at all while Alberta is actually moving in the direction the feds are asking them to.
I’m not even Albertan but I fully understand and respect what she is doing. Limiting government interference is always the right approach.
Pardon? Limiting government interference by interfering with government using government? It’s just governments interfering from every angle. Governments all the way down.
Limiting government interference by… _checks notes_ …interfering with the energy market by establishing a crown corporation because you can’t force private businesses to break federal law.
Yeah. Sure.
Based on the corruption in electricity industry alone Alberta provincial gov't could be put in jail for years.
@Cheapiebeepie you are looking at the issue through a cardboard tube and his point went co.pletely over your head. Good job.
What? She is interfering with free market demands and defying federal orders based on what the free market wants, so she can impose big government restrictions and stop smaller companies from competing? How is her making more government and silencing small business smaller government?
You don’t say. The party of control wants to control the power. We need more power not less. Open up and think about all the options
What a lady a true sledgehammer
wrapped in silk ,you go girl.❤🎉🎉🎉.
Split the grid ,housing,solar commercial gas , industrial hydro based on consumption
Steven Guilbeault needs to go back to the hell he came from.
Steven Guilbeault should not even be in government he is a convicted criminal.
Steven Guilbeault is a nuisance to Canadians and should be removed and sent back to jail where he belongs
He doesn’t even speak english
He is a criminal, I don't know how he was allowed to be a Minister!! 😅
@@glennaltpeter8917because the crime minister Trudo is one as well. Birds of a feather flock together!
JT is the one trying to bend the rules on jurisdiction.
Incorrect.
Correct, he's even opposing the judiciary, by not abiding with the latest supreme court decision.
@@OldWolf1933 No. Smith is rogue.
Please feel free to live without oil and gas. Have fun with that.. @@garmar704
@@garmar704 Smith is awesome, she actually cares about Albertan's. Here's to her being premier for a long, long time.
I wish more provinces would push back against our corrupt and incompetent federal govt
The conservative ones are.
Like most Albertans you prefer a corrupt and incompetent Conservative government. Albertans have never cared about corruption and incompetence. It just depends on who is doing it. The federal Liberals are always under a microscope, and any mis-step is broadcast far and wide, with the added accusation of malfeasance. If only Albertans could lift the blinder from its right eye, and apply 10% of the same scrutiny to conservatives of any stripe. They get away with everything. Election fraud, graft and others too numerous to mention here.
This will probably blow up in Danielles’ face, as this is obviously just playing politics with this issue, or any issue she brings up.
so you don't think there's good reason for to go against this completely failed and harmful federal liberal govt?
they're breaking records that we don't want broken in Canada.. like food bank usage and national debt. They have no desire to actually use the money they're stealing from Canadians to help Canadians... which is obvious after this disasterous 8 year run.@@ch555xuser
No such thing as clean electricity
That's right, but the cleanest will be next generation nuclear, but the nuclear power industry is kinda broken right now. It's still trying to build a technology that hasn't changed much since the early 1970s. Plants take twelve years and a 3x cost overrun if they complete them at all. All energy sources degrade the natural environment. The responsible choice to make is the least dirty one, not the one where you get to bill your grandkids for the cleanup. What is being pumped into the atmosphere represents an enormous technical debt. Alberta should have improved its grids years ago and should be working on more efficient upgraded grids and power plants that require less fossil fuel along with solar and wind to fill the gap until next generation nuclear.
A national grid is what needs to be built to tie regional grids together with high voltage DC lines; this would solve the issue of the synchronization problem; the only obstacle is the lack of political will and the influence oil majors have. The world's electrical grids are going to need replacing in the next few decades anyway, from the top down. Sixty Hertz AC is a technological legacy nearly as old as landline telephone subscriber loops. It limits the radius of a grid, and makes it vulnerable to the kind of cascade failure we saw in Texas and in the northeast US before that. Late 21st Century electric grid will run on high voltage DC and has no synchronization problem, so it can be continental or even global. Which is necessary if intermittent sources are to provide more than about a third of the energy.
@@Matherofacts Debts are irrelevant. It's deficits that are the problem, as they devalue earnings over time.
Federal debt is more of a form of quasi-money in circulation than that of a form of debt; and a government, unlike a household, can roll over its debt indefinitely and maturing debt can be replaced with newly issued debt that never needs to ever be “paid back”
alberta is going to bury stephen
Alberta has already buried Stephen Harper.
She complains about high electric prices yet she removed the cap on hydro billing.....
Because the liberal government drove the price of electricity up, why should responsible businesse owners take a loss for the incompetent government in control ?
Typical for her: remove any public/worker protections that the NDP implemented while distracting the conservative base with the provincial vs federal bickering.
True
Alberta has no hydro.
Considering how we don’t use hydro it’s a non issue.
Wind and solar are NOT baseload power ! If we build 100,000 gigawatts of wind and solar and the sun is down and there is no wind it doesn't matter that we have 100,000 gigawatts of potential power we have ZERO actual power so baseload is coal, NG, Hydro or Nuclear and please show us where these are being built or in the planning stages ?
Nowhere is there baseload being proposed which is why if nobody is going to built baseload it falls on the province to step up and build it !
But please if i'm wrong show me where there is Federal funded nuclear or hydro being built in Alberta because I cannot see any so what are you people talking about powering Alberta for baseload power ?
Wind and solar will never carry the whole base load, but they can get us through as we begin to phase out the burning most fossil fuels until the nuke biz gets back on its feet and other better alternatives.
Brings to mind Texas, with all that wind power, they could have had a perfectly stable grid by now. But they were too cheap to build the storage to go with it.
The only energy storage systems that we have that can store enough energy to replace fossil fuels for stationary systems is reduction-oxidation flow batteries, which are scalable to any size; no river metals are required nor rare metals needed.
@@rps1689
Electricity is more expensive, and still requires coal, natural gas or other sources to be produced.
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_To produce electricity, a turbine generator set converts mechanical energy to electrical energy. In the cases of natural gas, coal, nuclear fission, biomass, petroleum, geothermal, and solar thermal, the heat that is produced is used to create steam, which moves the blades of the turbine._
_Although electricity is a clean and relatively safe form of energy when it is used, the generation and transmission of electricity affects the environment. Nearly all types of electric power plants have an effect on the environment, but some power plants have larger effects than others._
Now, Wind Turbines are not "clean" and overall are detrimental to our land, air and kill species (ie: birds, bees and explode the lungs of the endangered species of brown bats).
Wind turbines may be stopped and *not working* because there is *not enough wind* or, even though this might sound like a contradiction, *too much wind* also causes wind turbines to *stop.*
And how much wind speed is required and how fast would damage the turbines?
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_Wind turbines require: a minimum wind speed (generally 12-14 km/h) to begin turning and generate electricity. strong winds (50-60 km/h) to generate at full capacity. Winds of less than 90 km/h; beyond that speed, the turbines must be stopped to avoid damage._
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_How green is wind power? It’s not a simple question. Of course the wind blows without carbon emissions, but catching it isn’t easy. Building and erecting wind turbines requires hundreds of tons of materials - steel, concrete, fiberglass, copper, and more exotic stuff like neodymium and dysprosium used in permanent magnets._
_All of it has a carbon footprint. Making steel requires the combustion of metallurgical coal in blast furnaces. Mining metals and rare earths is energy intensive. And the manufacture of concrete emits lots of carbon dioxide._
_The typical life span of a wind turbine is 20 years, with routine maintenance required every six months._
The blades are designed to be lightweight but highly durable, and are usually made of fiberglass or carbon fiber, held together with resin. *This cannot be easily or efficiently broken down for recycling.*
These "carcasses" are not biodegradable and pollute our earth. There are numerous "graveyards" littering our lands.
The key ingredient to run wind turbines is *oil,* and turbines can have as much as 1,400 liters of this inside them. Oils serve three main purposes of lubrication, hydraulics, and as gear oil - which are all essential when dealing with large torques and moving components.
The dirty "secret" is that over time they leak oil. _Oil leaks of any kind need immediate attention as they can mean critical parts are broken. Ultimately this can lead to environmental pollution as well as turbine collapses which only put a bad name on this clean source of energy. Accurate remote detection of these oil leaks is needed to ensure faults are fixed as soon as possible._
_Therefore, wind turbines cannot operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. A wind turbine at a typical wind farm operates 65 to 90 percent of the time, but usually at less than full capacity because the wind speed is not at optimum levels. Therefore, its capacity factor is 30 to 35 percent._
People need to wake up and realize that we will always need natural oil and gas.
@@c.Ichthys We will always need oil and gas.
Utility scale solar farms are the cheapest energy right now, but in order for them to surpass more than a third of the energy mix, a huge investment in storage is required. It will require a lot of concrete and square miles; worn out turbines and solar panels will not be the weakest link, but concrete probably will.
@@c.Ichthys What is interesting is the newer Chinese coal plants are very efficient compared to the old ones especially with the newer grids so much so that an EV recharged by a one puts out half the CO2 as a gasoline car the same size doing the same trip and even much better in stop and go commuter congestion. Basically the same efficiency as a gas power plant when it comes to Well to Wheel efficiency.
@@rps1689 yep. Not viable and not green per se. Have you seen the turbine graveyards polluting oit world, with their parts non biodegradable?
The thumbnail pic …. Lmfao . Guess they don’t like her. She not following the agenda
Man i just love Alberta's leadership. Bc needs to go in the same direction.
Better yet, you leave BC to live in Alberta because it's clear in BC we elect sane leaders.
As Jason Kenney said, to the funny farm? Now why would BC vote for a party of lunatics?
She admitted to the room of cherry picked reporters that she was grandstanding. Great right wing Trumper!
@@judymathison1249 yes whole thing is one grand pandemonium medicine show filled with smoke and mirrors which has yet to even come into force. So easy to horns waggle the UCP faithful.
@@judymathison1249 lol,
Finally a real leader.
😂😂😂😂😂👎👎👎👎👎👎😂😂😂😂😂😂 HELL NO SHE AINT 😂😂😂😂😂
you got that right. She has gumption and the foresight.
Best Premier for Alberta in the current chaos.
Keep holding her up in prayer for strength and wisdom against the bullies in the federal government.
@@truthinthefaceoftyrannyholy f***….chaos?
Do the Liberals/NDP understand they are captain of Canada’s ship right now, but it’s not looking too good for them in the near future 🧐
Where does this clean electricity come from?😂😂😂
It comes from Ft St John where we are currently in the process of flooding our river valleys and going 10 billion over buget on site c .
Oh but I can get a fridge or a dishwasher that breaks down and we need to buy new every 3yrs. How about printers? If they want to crack down on companies (not plastic straws or bags or cars) start with the ones that has the most products that end up in landfills 🤷♀️.
What’s next? I bet it’s something labeled green!
A leader that fights for taxpayers! Nice to see for a change. Trudeau could learn something from this leader!
U go girl !!!!!
The federal government does not have authority over energy
I love you Danielle Smith so happy I voted for you:))
Nice array of solar panels in your report . Could you please do a little investigative journalism and tell us where these panels were manufactured and where the elements involved were mined ?
Thanks for pointing that out. Media is paid for by the liberals and are now just propaganda. Kind regards
In the words of a good man " Why don't you ask... China 👌"
hahahahahahahahahahahah SPOT ON @@rdoli454
They can't do that. People would find out about the toxic material mined in China by slave labour.
Or they might find out they rarely last 5 years before going into landfill to poison our water systems.
Herr Trudulf has doubled thier bribe money for producing propaganda and you want them to risk that by telling the truth.
Hopefully they used Canadian steel for the support frames .@@rdoli454
She's not going around it, she's going through it. It won't matter much anyway as were not far from having a federal government that uses common sense over woke politics.
You sure about that? How do you think they’ll fare in the house up against what will essentially be a 3 to 4 party coalition opposition.
They could take 50% of the vote and they’ll still struggle to accomplish anything in the house.
@@firstandforemost87 I think they'll fare great when 2 of those parties have very little representation.
@@ScottGostick
I don’t see it happening. Ppl are too ideologically dug in.
I don’t know if you have spent much time in major cities, but I don’t see them turning.
Hopefully I’m wrong and you’re right tho.
@firstandforemost87 I certainly could be wrong but here's to hope.
Everyone hates clean electricity! LOL. What a clown of a premier.
She's not just a clown, but also Crazy. That would make her a Crazy Fool.
Alberta needs to grow up and start acting like it deserves to be part of this, or any country.
Canada is a NATION of PROVINCES.
Not some loose amalgamation of rivaling, uncooperative "states".
Not all Albertans support the malarkey
Nope. Ottawa is the problem - imposing destructive and foolish "green" WEF policy on Canada. Smarten up.
@@rickmatz4456 Where are the sane ones hiding?
I wish our useless Ontario premier would fight for us like this woman.
Fords running out of the small credit he earned for getting us out of those awful, needless, senseless, destructive lockdowns way earlier than the fed wanted (we'd probably still be under them now)
Good, dont blame em. Hope they win
Is there anyone else who is sick and tired of Smith's rants? When kids visit the Legislature, what lessons are they learning from Smith? They're learning that when you don't like someone or disagree with them it's quite OK by Smith to call those people names, to mock and belittle them and make up stories about them. Nice role model.
Smith has no discernible skills and has shown a well honed ability to lie, to distort and exaggerate. She's a discredit to the Office of Premier. I feel badly for Albertans who, under Smith, are forced to still deal with the bogeymen made up in the 1980's like the NEP. My goodness Smith drop the tough act, find some dignity and humility. Your anger and fear mongering is the last thing our world needs, especially now.
She’s a hero, glad I voted for her. So proud.
@@coffeecake323 News flash!!! We already have clean water, clean air and our food comes from all over the world. No matter how many times Trudeau, Notley and the media spew their rhetoric, Carbon is not a pollutant.
Says a Chinese bot.
@coffeecake323 Tell me how the federal government has used the carbon tax to cut down pollution. Open your eyes please.
Hero? She’s the hard right wing villain. Rachel Notley should’ve won the election
@@Liberal_From_Prairies689 So all you have is an indolent reply.
Now we are going to listen to a criminal about the law. 😂😂😂please. Help me to under stand
Criminal? Whom?
Just when I think my govt is an absolute joke... in steps Canada.
Good on Alberta. I wish them the best. Canada needs more like her.
😂 She's not doing anyone any good with this grand standing. All she's doing is showing up for the big oil companies.
@@pixiemadness7139wow. Trolling on numerous posts! Says much about the state of your jejeune mind.
@@pixiemadness7139 wont be funny when u cant afford your power bill... yk when you move outa your parents basement & can comprehend the gravity of these taxes.
@@joeeeyyyyyy you know y'all are cheering for bigger government and public gas companies, right?
@@pixiemadness7139you're a child, begone
How does she plan to get around the rules? A better question is how the pm plans to get around the constitution when he was already found to be exceeding his authority. I cannot wait for you to be defunded...
There is no such thing as truly clean electricity its a marketing term
“How does she get around federal overreach” fixed it for you
This dude from Calgary is full of crap……Alberta is getting more business and investment than ever.
Looks like I'm moving to alberta lol
Do UCP have been in power for 5 years and our energy costs have gone up 120%, while Saskatchewan's has gone up 25%... This isn't a federal problem, this is a provincial problem
That’s what people forget. Smith is leading the same party that Kenny was running. What has improved over the last 5 years?
Are you brainwashed?
Also provincial governments and local regions set most of the taxes on the fuel.
Best premier in Canada!!!!
Yep no contest
Common sense that Pierre Poillievre does not have.
She'd be great as a Florida governor.
Nope. Saskatchewan's is. She too polarizing and is the queen of gaslighting.
@@garmar704 As Canada's Prime Minister.
Like BC Hydro.....my bill keeps going up and up, there's no end.
For me, Hydro is dirt cheap compared to what I had to pay in NB.
Truedope needs to be stopped! Alberta is a great province standing up to the Left Alliance!
someone has to fight for the poor. these rules will crush the average person and wipe out the poorest.
lol and the fees that danielle smith turns a blind eye to, don't? okaaaaaaaaaaaaay
@@tracya6702oh ya? List them or stop spreading falsehoods.
Alberta already has the highest electricity rates in North America. How is she fighting for the poor
I pay 3x more in insurance and electricity in AB versus NS. Jobs are great, but when they start to dry up, ain’t no easterners staying here. 😂
@danezahara853 imagine it even higher we have no hydro or nuke power
Danielle, I applaud you from Ontario!
This federal government is to stupid to back down.
Their agenda is to destroy this country
Less taxes and regulations always stop big companies from investing. Right? That's how it works. Right?😂
I think this federal government has been dipping into the free narcotics at their clinics.
No, Unstable Government Provincially, hard for investors to predict profits. if risk of prediction hits a mark, they advise not to invest as no certainty on returns. possible change in the rules, and conflicts with a regulator also means what else will they go after or who. waste peoples money. Smith is thinking way to short. like CPP. be nuts to leave. lose money guaranteed.
Very happy we have such a bold committed premier who stands FOR AB
Holy crap! I can't stop laughing! Gotta be the Alberta education system! She's ripping off Albertan's by letting her corporate bosses rip us off.
Do tesla even turn on in an alberta winter which lasts longer than summer? Or must it be kept in a heated garage at all times when parked? My electric pev doesn't even work if any operating Temps show below 5°C
I've heard of Tesla's being prone to catching fire even after they already exploded.
@@JohnnyTightlips2007 Well it's a good thing that the chance of an EVs battery igniting is 50 times less than that of a ICE, but your EV will be a write-off. Good news is some automakers are going to stop using lithium ion batteries and use lithium iron phosphate batteries instead, which will make them safer that ICEs. Also it is highly likely in less than a decade, sodium will overtake lithium and be the norm.
ICEs catch fire so much, that it isn’t newsworthy when they do unless they hold up traffic or kill someone.
Its OK for Quebec but noo one else WHY ?.😊
Good work Alberta…
Right on Danielle! I wish the other Premiers would follow suit! Alberta provides CLEAN energy. Canadians want CANADIAN ENERGY!
Give them time.
You should look up the definition first
@@lukeamato423Alberta has some of the cleanest energy in the world. Possibly THE cleanest. Or are you still in denial about renewables like wind and solar?
'You have no idea how high I can fly'
Michael Scott
@@rdub6941 lmfao I can show you the math of how bad a polluter Alberta is. It's one of the dirtiest energy producers on the planet
Just drive to Fort Saskatchewan and try to smell the clean energy. @@rdub6941
You notice all the chest beating, "she stands up for Alberta" retoric that is core to Alberta nationalism in the comments here. Alberta has never pumped more and gas than right now. Unemployment is low housing is still affordable , gas is cheap. Yet to hear it from this Premier , its a done wrong by Ottawa Province that needs nore "independence" . Red meat for a base that buys into this false narative. Ur fine , you will contuine to be so long as this sepratist politcal theater has a lid of realism kept on it. Go travel the world and see how badly off...you aren't.
Bravo Danielle!
This is very good to see.
Watching from Australia 🙏
@@chiy828 Trust Me, The corruption and intentions here are pretty dire too but I do agree. I have been horrified with how Canada handled the Truckers etc etc Like a Dik-tater-ship (Spelt Wrong Deliberately)
@@crazyham I was at the protests in Ottawa. I recall the liberal mayor, during the first days of the protest helped the truckers get situated and set up by directing traffic for them, making way for supplies to get to them, and even ignored bylaws to accommodate them; Heck! the city even acted in good faith and gave them parking lots. But the truckers bit the hand that fed them and they overstayed their welcome and the last straw was elsewhere in the province; blocking the busiest border crossing in between the US and Canada on a privately owned bridge. The protesters ticked off the right wing premier of the province so much so he declared a state of emergency before the Federal Liberals got involved. They should have seen the writing on the wall when the Trucking Alliance and the teamsters condemned the protesters’ actions.
I chatted with some of the truckers, and to be honest, they weren't the sharpest tools in the shed and didn't seem to be all on the same page in regard to mandates. Some didn't even know most of the mandates were provincial and these mandates were already in the making of having most of them removed before the protest. Most I talked to were not cross border truckers and as my trucker friend pointed out to me reluctantly said, they are the "bottom of the barrel" ouch!
I was surprised about how the police and RCMP showed great restraint and took their time methodically moving protesters out of the red zone so they could secure the illegally parked trucks that occupied the area. I doubt an equivalent location in the US or France cluttered with trucks illegally parked and blocking areas would have been tolerated by authorities especially for weeks on end.
The fake cause convoy had fake truckers in it@@crazyham , What do you know about this crypto swil attempt at destabilising?
@@rps1689 Thanks so much for the additional insights that I didn't know about.
I am still horrified that that the Government froze bank accounts and penalized people that donated to the cause. I think it is too much like a Dik-tater-ship even on that account alone.
@@crazyham Freezing those accounts temporarily was wrong and superfluous.
She’s doing a great job, I assume she also managed to sell that diner she owns in High River and draw more investment into this nice eatery.
Alverta seriously needs to split from Canada, atleast cpp withdrawl.
People have been saying that for decades. Alberta needs a few provinces to split with them. Alberta is landlocked and would have to deal with Canada regulations to move product, unless straight to USA and not in our land. And, the other Provinces have their own issues. We all want to separate. The West would be a good "Country" if we could start over... debt free.
But if not by 2035, then when? We know renewable energy will be our only option eventually, should we really wait until it’s absolutely necessary? It seems that society is aware of what happens when we just keep pushing the problem to later.
one person decision the polution that alberta produce cost live lost in bc that is real crime
To hell with the rest of Canada and half of Alberta. Dictatorship is not governing .The people’s immediate priorities are housing,healthcare,cost of living,you know the important issues that affects daily life for all citizens.
Maybe we should just I don’t know stop paying subsidies to gas companies, and use those funds towards clean energy and developing housing
You realize that’s the subsidies actually come from oil and gas taxation, right?
@@Ont785And those taxes ought to be going into public coffers, not to profitable businesses.
Tell us you know nothing about the topic at hand without actually saying it
Keep the gov out of housing. Deal w the underlying problem, which is rampant migration to Canada and foreign ownership.
Instead they are talking about clamping down on mom and pop investors who are trying to put something away for retirement through real estate.
Any time the government takes money and redistributes its a disaster. There is no such thing as clean energy...
Just kick out Justin Trudeau and Canada's problem will be solved
d smith in china clean energy is # 1 topic and there is dead penalty try to take a vacation to china your two way ticket will become one way
Another washed out by oiled PR thread. I bet they snorted a lot.
Yes Alberta is right. Canada should charge a pipeline fee for every barrel of oil and mcf of natural gas that goes through another province. Lets put the same tax of every truck load and rail car load of all goods that go to Alberta that first go to other provinces.
Then Canada could stop Canadian tax payers for providing the discount on the lease of Crown land for oil and gas production. You do know that oil sands projects are built on crownland. Oil sands projects would have never been viable without crown land discounts let alone the subsidies such as public finance through loans, guarantees, equity, and grants.
@@rps1689 Alberta crown lands and the hydro power supplied from other Provinces. They can shut the lights off in Alberta for Christmas.
@@rps1689you do know that our oilsands projects are the most environmentally sound way to produce our energy needs besides nuclear, right?
You sound like you think "green" energy is the cheaper alternative.
Tell me, what's your thoughts on nuclear power? Scary amd dangerous, or sustainable and actually green?
@@MF-rtard89 I will start with nuclear first, as, this will be long and could get removed.
The nuclear power industry is kinda broken right now. It's still trying to build a technology that hasn't changed much since the early 1970s. Plants take twelve years and a 3x cost overrun if they complete them at all. The job has been given to the wrong kinds of organizations. The US Navy could do it right. NASA could do it. France and Canada came close. Toshiba and Southern Nuclear, not so much.
It's too bad nobody can deliver a small modular nuclear plant today, thorium or otherwise, but that will eventually happen.
Commercial nuclear power needs time to regroup, reorganize, troubleshoot, and clean house. Then it needs time to get all those new technologies it's been talking about for for over fifty years to market where they can build well sited plants with onsite storage that creates much less waste than todays obsolete nuclear power plants.
I’m a fan green Hydrogen, but it can cost up three or four times as much as H2 made from methane unfortunately depending on the markets. Green hydrogen is produced by wind, solar, geothermal, or biomass. Hydrogen fuel cells are not limited by Carnot's Rule which is why it is likely it become an option for large mobile applications like cargo ships and locomotives; denser and more scalable than batteries.
The safety problem with nuclear power has been at the uranium mines and the fuel factories, not the power plants with the exception of Chernobyl and nobody will ever build another graphite pile reactor for electric power or another Fukushima.
What is interesting is to compare water contamination from fossil fuel burning plants and farming to nuclear/plutonium contamination over the last 75 years. Heck even fossil fuels usually contain a small percentage of radioactive elements like uranium or radium.
Also compare soil contamination from plastics, fertilizers, and pesticides to nuclear/plutonium contamination over the last 75 years.
About 3.5 million people a year die from water contamination. Over 8 million a year from soil contamination. Natural radiation kills tens of thousands a year. Now compare that to the number of people that have died from nuclear contamination annually since the 40s.
@@MF-rtard89 "Cheaper" is the key word, but there's no free market in energy. It's a network of administered oligopolies so using the word 'cheap" is somewhat superfluous. All energy industries are administered and subsidized. Nobody would put up with paying the full price of energy. Not the powers that be, not the consumers.
As dirty as mining is, it doesn’t raise a serious risk as burning fossil fuels does at the current rate.
No energy is green. All energy sources degrade the natural environment. The responsible choice to make is the least dirty one, not the one where you get to bill your grandkids for the cleanup. What is being pumped into the atmosphere represents an enormous technical debt and the oil sands are a big contributor to that.
Yes please all provincial govts should be disassociate themselves from the federal govt
All that propane that gets shipped east for Quebec. That can stop first. That should help cut emissions.
Somebody needs to tell the liberals about King Canute
Love how she keeps Trudeau & Co. under the microscope. Canada needs more leaders like her.
Danielle is a Legend!Start giving props or go back into misinformation obscurity like uve been!
Even countries near equator are struggling with renewables! They want solar in north pole?
it is very sad and worrying that we have a PM Trudeau that does not serve Canada or all Canadians he only serve his special interest group and extreme base.