The Official Contempt for Alberta Thread

[B00Mer]

Re: Oil price drops below US$30, bringing down loonie and Toronto stock market

Justin. He's just not ready. Except for a selfie. He's always ready for that.

:lol:

 

[Rick A]

Re: Oil price drops below US$30, bringing down loonie and Toronto stock market

The loss of oil revenue to Canada is worth about $50 billion a year for the next 5 years. Okay so lets start resourcefulness and uh say whatever the hell we can to keep the momentum going until we can get pot on the shelves. Yes, uh, then we can, uh, do a budget and it will balance itself.

 

[MHz]

Re: Oil price drops below US$30, bringing down loonie and Toronto stock market

Justin. He's just not ready. Except for a selfie. He's always ready for that.

:lol:

You have odd looking feet Bloomer, at least you got your title right, loonie.

 

[Murphy]

Re: Oil price drops below US$30, bringing down loonie and Toronto stock market

Okay, this is like, Jody from Justin's office again. K? I think that you are being really, really mean to Justin. He would like, never kill a bird! He wouldn't kill anything! So please stop saying things like that.

He's hired people to live in the basement of his house. They will go around gently catching and removing all the insects and stuff from the inside his house - when it's finished being renovated that is. Killers and haters don't do stuff like that! In the meantime, he has them working at the Parliament buildings. Cool, eh?

And he's decided to rename the street from 24 Sussex to 1 Succès Drive, because it sort of sounds the same, but it's like, French for success. He's so imaginative!

But anyway, Justin doesn't kill things like birds, and he wants to be your friend too. And yes, you can have your picture taken with him, but it's like, free! K?

 

[Rick A]

Re: Oil price drops below US$30, bringing down loonie and Toronto stock market

Dead right up to the point where you run out and gas-up your car... Then it's resurrected until the next time, right?

PS - what the fukk is the enforceable future

Okay, so that like, brought tears to my eyes. Do the roaches qualify for the insect welfare package a swell.

Dead right up to the point where you run out and gas-up your car... Then it's resurrected until the next time, right?

PS - what the fukk is the enforceable future

Just a maybe, we will import at a lower cost, but the damage of low il prices is going to hurt.

 

[petros]

Re: Alberta's economic diversification plan wins praise from industry

This isn't an NDP idea. It's reannouncing what was announced quite some time ago. Just like Justin's crew reannouncing ActionPlan projects set in motion damn near a decade ago as fresh "innovative challenges facing our diverse sustainable,multicultural economy".

Williams announced its plans for a $900-million propylene plant in March 2013. The plant, with annual production capacity of 525 kilotonnes of polymer grade propylene, would be built near Redwater in the Industrial Heartland

Jeepers!

The reason they are going to pollute Alberta and increase Canadian emissions is because there is no feedstock going the Gulf Coast from Canada.


Green

Oklahoma company moves forward on building Alberta propylene plant | Edmonton Journal

Gullibility

 

[mentalfloss]

Alberta's coal phase-out: How the province plans to kick carbon to the curb

Alberta's coal phase-out: How the province plans to kick carbon to the curb

Alberta is literally and figuratively built on a mountain of coal.

For the past 100 years, coal from mines peppered across the province have kept the lights on here. A cheap and reliable source of power that gave the province's industries an edge and kept power bills low.

It's a long tradition that continues today.

On a crisp winter day along the sun-kissed banks of Battle River, in central Alberta, the province's oldest coal-fired power plant chugs along. Originally built in 1954, ATCO Power's aptly named Battle River Generating Station can turn out 689 megawatts of power.

Fuel for the plant is provided by the nearby Paintearth mine, operated by the Colorado-based Westmoreland Coal Company. The mine consists of two open pits, where coal is scraped from just below the ground's surface, and hauled down the narrow country road to the station.

Westmoreland has a contract to supply the Battle River plant with coal until 2022, just eight years before the provincial government has committed to eliminating coal-fired power plants in Alberta.

On the surface, the goal sounds simple enough. But for Alberta's government, achieving that target by 2030 is anything but straightforward.

Coal currently accounts for more than half of the province's electricity and is the lifeblood of many communities and industries across Alberta.

Alberta's coal phase-out: How the province plans to kick carbon to the curb - Calgary - CBC News

 

[petros]

Re: Alberta's coal phase-out: How the province plans to kick carbon to the curb

Kick carbon to the curb or start capturing it for EOR instead of buying it from SK?

Coal is too valuable for the future. It's not about emissions at all.

 

[JamesBondo]

Re: Alberta's coal phase-out: How the province plans to kick carbon to the curb

Here's the dilemma.

Coal furnaces take a while to get up to full temperature, so the furnaces run hot even when the electricity demand is low so that the heat is available for additional power generation whenever a peak in demand is experienced.

Alas, sources like wind and solar run their own power cycles, you just can't turn up the sun or turn on more wind when you need it.

 

[MHz]

Re: Alberta's coal phase-out: How the province plans to kick carbon to the curb

By 2030 they may have some real scientists doing the assessments.

 

[Toro]

Re: Alberta's coal phase-out: How the province plans to kick carbon to the curb

Have the socialists totally destroyed Alberta yet?

 

[eh1eh]

Re: Alberta's coal phase-out: How the province plans to kick carbon to the curb

Have the socialists totally destroyed Alberta yet?

No, it is that stupid American dollar.

 

[Toro]

Re: Alberta's coal phase-out: How the province plans to kick carbon to the curb

I'm making a fortune.

Hooray for me!

 

[Toro]

Re: Oil price drops below US$30, bringing down loonie and Toronto stock market

The energy industry is going to go through a depression.

 

[MHz]

Re: Oil price drops below US$30, bringing down loonie and Toronto stock market

Do you really think depressions happen all on their own??

 

[Cannuck]

Re: Alberta's coal phase-out: How the province plans to kick carbon to the curb

Have the socialists totally destroyed Alberta yet?

They are going to try their damnedest but they won't have enough time. They'll be punted in the next election.


Germany is building new coal fired generating stations after realizing renewable aren't anywhere near ready to replace non-renewable. Mentalfloss is going to be awfully salty in a year or two

 

[Bar Sinister]

Re: Alberta's economic diversification plan wins praise from industry

Of course he won't own any of his lies and mistakes, ideologues never do.
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As per the OP, the only Revolution going on here is related to the proven and extreme socialism that is evidenced by this Notley Crew.

The inexperience is evidenced through the wildly foolish move to raise taxes and threaten royalty reviews when the sector was already reeling with low commodity prices.

No doubt that the author of the article loathes to mention that capital spending in the province has been slashed to near non-existent levels and investment is running away to other jurisdictions... The aforementioned is far too inconvenient to mention during this exercise in the gubmint congratulating themselves

I've asked this question before and you have conveniently ignored it, but just how do you account for the same outflow of jobs and investment happening in Saskatchewan, which has a right-wing government? Let me guess - you're going to ignore it this time as well.

 

[Bar Sinister]

Re: Alberta's coal phase-out: How the province plans to kick carbon to the curb

Germany is building new coal fired generating stations after realizing renewable aren't anywhere near ready to replace non-renewable. Mentalfloss is going to be awfully salty in a year or two

You forget to mention that the new German coal-fired plants are to be used as back-up only. Most of the time they will be shut down or run at a reduced level as per this dictum. German coal-fired power plants are being designed and modified so they can be increasingly flexible to support the fluctuations resulting from increased renewable energy. Existing power plants in Germany are designed operate flexibly. Load following is achieved by German natural gas combined cycle plants and coal-fired power plants. New coal-fired power plants have a minimum load capability of approximately 40%, with further potential to reduce this to 20–25%.

And then there is this article:
Germany to mothball largest coal power plants to meet climate targets | Environment | The Guardian

 

[mentalfloss]

Re: Alberta's economic diversification plan wins praise from industry

That's why I post the NDP bike comic.

Conservatives are on their way out and the worse it gets, the more they turn into empty blow hards.

 

[petros]

Re: Alberta's economic diversification plan wins praise from industry

That's why I post the NDP bike comic.

Conservatives are on their way out and the worse it gets, the more they turn into empty blow hards.

It is fun to watch you praise the ActionPlan and AB Conservative iniatives.

You have no idea how fun.