Maybe everyone should decarbonize? Why should Alberta get special treatment and get to be the last ones in the world to get off of fossil fuels? This is a GLOBAL problem, not an Ontario, BC, Quebec, Alberta problem.

Anyway Alberta is being dumb. There are companies that want to develop wind energy in Alberta, but Danielle Smith blocks them. What happened to letting the market decide? Maybe Alberta could at minimum just let the market decide. But their leaders are in the pocket of oil companies... American oil companies. They're willing to sell out their own country to get the last scraps of oil revenue and then they'll move to the US leaving their province to economic depression in the future.

Peak oil for electricity was last year. Peak oil for transportation is coming soon. It's all downhill for fossil fuels.

It's an economic imperative for Alberta to transition it's economy. But they've been scammed by the oil industry into thinking they'll be making big money from oil forever and Global Warming was invented by Justin Trudeau or some such bullshit. If they continue to believe everything the oil companies say, they will be left behind by the world and become the poorest and most backwards part of Canada.

[–] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes. Everyone must decarbonize asap, Alberta included. However, as I mentioned this is not easy, nor are we close to doing it. I provided a link for quebec's fossil fuel consumption and even they are no where near ending fossil fuels. If they haven't yet, how can anyone else. It takes time. Yes we must move at all haste.

My concern, is that as a general rule politicians are great at pointing fingers as a useless misdirection. A city councillor taking a strong stance on federal gun control is a great way to appear to be doing something, while really just doing nothing. Feds and provinces bark at each other all the time rather than doing the right thing in their jurisdiction.

This is much the same. I want Alberta to shut down the fossil fuel economy, but I'm not Albertan and resources are provincial. I'm in Ontario and I want us to shut down gas power plants, home furnaces and cars and keep our industrial heartlands with cool clean electricity. That is where my fight is.

Worry about shutting down the Alberta fossil fuel economy when my province doesn't depend on it.

We are in a national housing crisis, and we aren't building homes/neighbourhoods/cities ready for the fossil fuel free future. Our economies can't do it, because we aren't ready.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Peak oil for electricity generation was last year. Peak oil for transportation is soon, and the Iran war has hastened the timetable since ending dependency on oil is now strategically imperative for every country in the world.

You keep banging on about the fact that some gas is still used, trying to cling to some "hypocrisy" narrative. The fact is Alberta is trying to cling on to a dying industry and there is no hypocrisy to say that they need to transition from a dying industry. People still own horse and buggies today, that's not evidence that it's not obsolete technology.

We are in a national housing crisis, and we aren’t building homes/neighbourhoods/cities ready for the fossil fuel free future.

What are you talking about? We're spending billions on transit. We're building high speed rail. We're expanding electricity generation. There are tax incentives for converting to a heat pump. See here: https://natural-resources.canada.ca/energy-efficiency/home-energy-efficiency/canada-greener-homes-initiative/canada-greener-homes-initiative

Everyone in my family has converted to heat pumps. Considering the rebates the government provides, it doesn't take too long to pay off an investment in a heat pump.

Though maybe Ontario sucks at this because of Doug Ford sucks.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Doug Ford sucks because Ontario sucks.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And Ontario sucks because Doug Ford sucks. It's a vicious cycle that needs to be broken somewhere.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Doug Ford did not take over Queens park in a coup d'etat, he was elected in, twice. Doug is not the disease, he's a symptom.

[–] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Good for you. Provincially no one is ready for the post fossil fuel world.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I can see you're very attached to this false narrative and no amount of facts will make you let go of it.

[–] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

That's barely an opinion let alone an argument. Saying "na anh!" isn't the discussion you think it is.

and no amount of facts will make you let go of it.

Try one. You might like it