Yeah, 'cause the coal goes out by rail...the number of trains is stunning.
SaskPower is enlarging many of their plants, as well.
SaskPower is enlarging many of their plants, as well.
Alberta should create oilsands commission: panel
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Everyone knows that oil/gas is a primitive, non-renewable construct that we need to give up in favour of clean tech. As the reality of anthropogenic climate change finally begins to enter the minds of the few, honest conservatives or republicans out there, you will also see a swift change in energy policy. And since the science is patently obvious now, then it's the science that should pave the way for that future policy.
Regardless of how we organize such policy - whether it be by some governmental group or a separate agent - following sound science needs to be enforced just as much as economic concerns. That means important investments in legitimate, clean tech and gravitating away from the oil sector.
It's impossible to expect the oil industry to accept their inevitable death all at once, so this has to happen gradually.
And shifting to nat gas too. Sour gas. There is 3X as much sour gas as sweet and it's dirt cheap.
Cleaning up is fine but the ****ing carbon bank is a massive scam on the people of the planet.
Not really.
I've been doing just fine and I don't have an exuberant salary or anything.
McGuinty wants to have coal power phased out by 2014, he might have a problem implementing that though, as there is an election coming and he's likely to lose.
Phasing Out Coal Power in Ontario
I get paid $6 per acre seeded by using zero till knives. How many litres of fuel went into that acre to produce a "green crop" eligible for a carbon credit?
I did. "seeded by using zero till knives".
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A carbon offset credit ("carbon credit") is an emission reduction credit from an agricultural, forestry, waste management or renewable energy project. Carbon credits are typically measured in tons of CO2e and each carbon credit represents one tonne of carbon dioxide either, removed from the atmosphere, recaptured or saved from being emitted.
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The Government of Saskatchewan has introduced The Management and Reduction of Greenhouse Gases Act in the provincial legislature. It is expected that the new legislation will be in place sometime at the beginning of 2010. Legislation is expected to include a carbon offset system and agricultural carbon credits will play a large role in achieving greenhouse gas ("GHG") reductions in the province.
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A little less because you normally don't have to cultivate. In my region we had to cultivate this year to drop moisture conent to avoid root rot and stem rust.
So where's the scam then?
People bought into seeding by using zero till knives and they got seeding by using zero till knives.
By the way, I do think carbon credits are not the best environmental practice, but it's only really a scam if you're given the expectation of something that was not truly delivered.
Then how can you say there is no scam?
I'll be fair and give you my averages per acre to produce spring wheat.
Fuel: 26L
Nitrogen and phosphates 110lbs (nitrogen sourced from nat gas)
2L of petro sourced herbicide.
That doesn't include fuel used to move finished product to market, fuel to have fertilizer, pesticides and seed delivered, or fuel used in baling and moving bales.
In reality it's around 30L per acre. Does that one acre remove 30L equivilant of carbon?
My point is that there was no implication or promise of carbon reductions based on fuel usage in the contract. The people who bought into the "scam" didn't take the time to read the fine print.
1 L = 2.6Kg of CO2 x 30L = 79.66kg of CO2 per acre. What happens to all that captured carbon once the carbohydrates are consumed by man and beast? What becomes of the carbon in the straw?
It's a scam. A HUGE scam. If i wanted i could plant trees at $20 a pop for an airline. How much carbon does a sapling reduce in the 5 years I'm required to tend to that tree? After 5 years I can plow it under and plant more $20 trees.