In white text on black boards, messages that were both visually and rhetorically stark flanked Premier Danielle Smith last fall as she launched a big advertising campaign against Ottawa’s clean electricity regulations.
Cabinet ministers played up the fact wind and solar power didn’t come through in last weekend’s deep freeze, and when Smith returns from vacation next week she might take some more whacks at that UCP whipping post.
Inflammatory rhetoric on either the pro or con side of net zero can fuel headlines and stoke political bases, but it won’t power Alberta’s energy-hungry homes and cities, now or in the future.
The province had already begun work on a potential redesign of its regulated private market system when the cold snap rattled its grid more than similarly shivering Saskatchewan and British Columbia, which could both export some extra juice to Alberta.
He noted that the direct risk of this happening will be greatly diminished later this year when several massive gas plants come online, largely to replace the soon-to-be-eliminated (and much dirtier) coal-powered generators.
That could come with help from the new natural gas plants, but also the wind turbines and solar panels that produce in much greater abundance during longer days and gustier warm months.
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In white text on black boards, messages that were both visually and rhetorically stark flanked Premier Danielle Smith last fall as she launched a big advertising campaign against Ottawa’s clean electricity regulations.
Cabinet ministers played up the fact wind and solar power didn’t come through in last weekend’s deep freeze, and when Smith returns from vacation next week she might take some more whacks at that UCP whipping post.
Inflammatory rhetoric on either the pro or con side of net zero can fuel headlines and stoke political bases, but it won’t power Alberta’s energy-hungry homes and cities, now or in the future.
The province had already begun work on a potential redesign of its regulated private market system when the cold snap rattled its grid more than similarly shivering Saskatchewan and British Columbia, which could both export some extra juice to Alberta.
He noted that the direct risk of this happening will be greatly diminished later this year when several massive gas plants come online, largely to replace the soon-to-be-eliminated (and much dirtier) coal-powered generators.
That could come with help from the new natural gas plants, but also the wind turbines and solar panels that produce in much greater abundance during longer days and gustier warm months.
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