Western Canada wildfires: This year could be worse than last, say experts

[tay]

There's absolutely no doubt rates will be going up. After the AB flood my insurance for water damage went up several fold. Every year since I've had to increase my deductible so I can afford the premiums.......................BASTARDS!

Yes.

I don't know about taxes going up because of climate change but I do know about Private Corporations such as Insurance rates going up because of climate change.....

 

[petros]

That would be malarkey.

 

[JLM]

Yes.

I don't know about taxes going up because of climate change but I do know about Private Corporations such as Insurance rates going up because of climate change.....

Yeah, they probably blame it on climate change...........................easier than admitting to greed!

 

[petros]

Non-malarkey.

 

[JLM]

Sure it's going to get worse ... but it's not going to be due to karma or global warming or magic pings from angry wood nymphs. Too many environmentalists have deemed lifeless trees and deadfall to be wildlife habitat, and have lobbied inexperienced lawmakers to back their bull. You can't harvest it for firewood or clean up the tanglefoot. As kindling, it litters the bush floor - giving a running fire a source for slower and hungrier ground fire. Out in the middle of nowhere, that's not so bad. Fire rejuvenates the bush. Near settlement, wildfire is not so great.....

Not all forest fires are bad by any means, actually a good percentage are beneficial!

 

[petros]

Not all forest fires are bad by any means, actually a good percentage are beneficial!

The vast majority are beneficial.

 

[captain morgan]

So you don't believe the Privately controlled Insurance Companies claim as they are about to raise your insurance rates......?

Excellent point!

Why just like the facts on global war, errr, climate change, insurance companies have never upped premiums for non-justifiable reasons.

... True story.. Really

 

[petros]

Is that why my truck insurance is 100% more in BC than SK? Climate change makes Chinese immigrants sh-tty drivers?

 

[captain morgan]

Insurance in BC has been more expensive for years.. The reason is because AutoPlan (whatever they are calling themselves today) is no more than an ATM for the provincial gvt.

... And they know full well that the average run-of-the-mill green-o-phile will gladly pay through the nose on anything (except their weed and coke) if the eco moniker is attached

 

[JLM]

The vast majority are beneficial.

Actually you are right. The bad ones are where stupid man builds obstacles in the way!

Is that why my truck insurance is 100% more in BC than SK? Climate change makes Chinese immigrants sh-tty drivers?

Are you getting the 43% discount? When you reach 65 there is another discount.

 

[darkbeaver]

I believe I read some few days ago that Russia was also burning here and there.

Could it be GLOB

Global*****ming?

hoarming

haha

 

[petros]

Are you getting the 43% discount? When you reach 65 there is another discount.

Maxed at 40% and 17 years to go to be a senior.

 

[darkbeaver]

17 years, the first bit musta been hard cus you think real slow like an old guy already.

 

[JLM]

17 years, the first bit musta been hard cus you think real slow like an old guy already.

Pete don't gather much moss.

 

[MHz]

There's absolutely no doubt rates will be going up. After the AB flood my insurance for water damage went up several fold. Every year since I've had to increase my deductible so I can afford the premiums.......................BASTARDS!

I thought most claims were denied due to the water coming overland. If that is the case there should have been a 'modest increase' at best.

 

[JLM]

I thought most claims were denied due to the water coming overland. If that is the case there should have been a 'modest increase' at best.

I've never had any claims, denied or un denied! They just keep jacking up the premiums!

 

[taxslave]

The problem with Notley and the NDP is they did not believe climate change was happening so they didn't account for more fires......


From the devastating 2013 floods in southern Alberta, which cost the insurance industry $1.8 billion, to the massive fire that destroyed much of Slave Lake, Alta. in 2011, leading to more than $700 million in damages — there's no denying that climate change is a reality from the perspective of insurers.


“It’s happening,” said Insurance Bureau of Canada expert, Bill Adams, of climate change. “The wake-up call is now.”


Disaster-proof your homes say insurers, climate change is here | National Observer

None of which had anything to do with globull warming and everything to do with lack of planning and incompetent bureaucraps.

There is also the fact that the majority of the fires, including Ft. Mac were human caused.

 

[JLM]

None of which had anything to do with globull warming and everything to do with lack of planning and incompetent bureaucraps.

There is also the fact that the majority of the fires, including Ft. Mac were human caused.

I heard that speculation. Did they prove it?

 

[taxslave]

I heard that speculation. Did they prove it?

Can't say for sure at this time it was arson but definitely human caused.

Some of the fires in the Ft St, John region are being blamed on arson.

 

[darkbeaver]

Russia is experiaancimng similar combustyion events alongh the same lines, so what, it's called climate, you can fight to change it, it loves crushing the opposition.

Pete don't gather much moss.

I.m convinced that you can't support moss.