14 liberale Abgeordnete schreiben einen Brief an Carney, in dem sie ihre Besorgnis über Rückschritte im Umweltbereich äußern
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-mp-react-alberta-deal-carney-9.7208157
14 liberale Abgeordnete schreiben einen Brief an Carney, in dem sie ihre Besorgnis über Rückschritte im Umweltbereich äußern
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-mp-react-alberta-deal-carney-9.7208157
8 Kommentare
It’s good to have a united party, but it’s also good to have politicians with a conscience who aren’t just fearful, sycophantic drones (ala down south).
The US continues to threaten our very existence and were worried about carbon offsets? Embarrassing letter. They are out to lunch.
Utter nonsense. As a young Albertan and oilfield engineer I finally feel like my voice is being heard in Ottawa after over a decade of being completely shut out. Many, many people at work and around Calgary feel this way. You can feel the mood has changed.
We will continue to burn natural gas for electricity because it makes pragmatic sense for the Prairies to do so. We are blessed with an abundance of it in the ground, we have limited hydro capabilities, very cold winters, and nuclear is still in development. Combined cycle gas plants are very efficient, Alberta will continue to build vast windfarms as it has for 25+ years as well. The previous clean electricity regulations were unrealistic and had much more severe consequences on Prairie provinces whose electricity systems are far more complicated than the hydroelectricity found in most other provinces.
The world will continue to consume vasts amount of oil whether or not we produce it in BC/Alberta/Sask/NFLD. We do not get to decide this. I think this is the key lever Steven Guilbault fails to understand that we do not control. What we do have control over is whether we want to be a part of that supply mix and regulate the impacts of its production domestically, or watch that production shifts overseas and lose all control over emissions, other environmental impact etc. We have a strong regulatory framework and carbon tax, this cannot be said of most major oil producers!!
Pipelines don’t even make economic sense at this point. We’ve already passed the time of peak oil. The price of solar for example is crashing so hard that China will have far cheaper electricity than us.
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Valid concerns, but tbh I think Carney has made his position fairly clear on his economic/environmental decisions. It’s very valid to be concerned at what appears to be – and may legitimately be – environmental policy backsliding.
With that said, another reality we need to grapple with as Canadians is what our economy is based on. Recently, it’s been far too heavily based on real estate and land value speculation, which is totally unproductive. The service industry cannot grow if there isn’t a more productive segment pumping money into (I.e. people with money who want to do things like eat, go out, travel, and shop). Our manufacturing industry is declining and not coming back. China owns manufacturing following decades of strategic planning. Canada simply cannot compete on expertise, technical and supply chain capabilities, and labour. It’s not even close. So our true strength is resource extraction and agriculture. Energy, minerals, lumber, grains. It’s what we have in abundance that others do not. To remain prosperous and enjoy our standard of living – and improve it! – we need to extract those resources, and that has an environmental cost. Oil is one of those resources that is still in sufficient demand (and will be in an electrified world too, for non-energy uses), and current world events are proving there is a need to diversify suppliers.
I don’t believe we can afford to not develop and extract our resources if we are looking realistically and practically at the foundations of Canada’s economy, and want to sustain and improve our standard of living.
I appreciate the environmental concern and applaud the MPs standing up for what they believe. I also disagree full heartedly with them and think environmental concerns need to take a back seat for a while.
For the love of god, we have more natural resources per capita than any country in the world. How in the ever loving fuck are we not exploiting that to the absolute maximum? Like it or not, the market for oil is not going anywhere any time soon. We have the 4th largest reserves globally and we’re in a period where the largest consumers of oil are looking for stable trading partners. Not pursuing it would be yet another own goal after scoring on ourselves for the past 30 years.
Meanwhile in (un)related news: Some of Canada’s and Alaska’s northwestern headwaters are turning orange due to 1000x the safe level of cadmium and aluminum released by the melting permafrost.