ValueSubtracted

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[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I agree, but also this was a 2700 km trip, as the crow flies.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 6 points 1 week ago (6 children)

The boos came later when she asked if they were more comfortable in Canada than they were a few days ago.

And the pipeline deal is why she was asking, so what's the difference, exactly?

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 13 points 1 week ago (5 children)

What are the chances that Alberta just agreed to an increased industrial carbon tax in exchange for a pipeline that never gets built?

 

The agreement stresses that this pipeline will be privately constructed and financed — unlike the publicly owned Trans Mountain — and the intention is to have some Indigenous co-ownership.

That ["project of 'national interest'"] designation means the pipeline — and possibly the tankers associated with transporting the oil — could be exempted from some federal laws. Those include the Fisheries Act, the Species At Risk Act and the Impact Assessment Act, among others.

Canada is committing to "collaborate with Alberta to provide a clear and efficient approval process for the Alberta bitumen pipeline."

Importantly, Alberta is promising to "collaborate with B.C. to ensure British Columbians share substantial economic and financial benefits of the proposed pipeline."

Ottawa will also suspend the proposed federal oil and gas emissions cap and Alberta's requirements under the Clean Electricity Regulations (CER).

But the two sides are committed to increasing the industrial carbon price in the province — moving it from $95 a tonne now to a minimum of $130 a tonne. The federal government had previously demanded that price rise to $170 a tonne by 2030.

Both sides say they are committed to net-zero by 2050, despite the MOU that has the potential to turbocharge conventional energy production.

To help achieve that goal, both Canada and Alberta are moving ahead with Pathways Plus, an Alberta-based carbon capture, utilization and storage project, which could reduce the emissions intensity of exports from the province's oilsands.

The two sides are also agreeing to dramatically lower methane emissions associated with the oil patch — a 75 per cent reduction target relative to 2014 emissions levels by 2035.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 45 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

Well, euthanizing 1/3 of the population would certainly help alleviate the housing crisis...

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Agreed - it's pretty unlikely that you'd be able to prove something like that.

I suppose you could try to apply precedents surrounding HIV disclosure, but I think it'd be a tough sell.

Edit: And to be clear, even in that situation, we're talking about disclosure, not actual treatment-related choices.

Not a big shock - there have been allegations surrounding the guy for years.

It was certainly the case when I was in school, and that was decades ago.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think that's pretty universal, and it's been the case for decades.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago (6 children)

It's the perfect crime! The feds create a problem with a solution that's under provincial jurisdiction...

Yeah, I lucked out in having nothing better to do at the time. I'm not sure if I'll be able to catch all of the rest of the series, but I'm definitely going to keep an eye on it!

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't really follow baseball at all, and haven't watched any of the playoffs to date. But I did watch this.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"As the labour movement in this province, our leaders have made a commitment to rise to that challenge, defend the teachers and their rights, defend worker rights more broadly, and to defend our democracy. We have no choice."

[Gil McGowan, president of the Alberta Federation of Labour] stopped short of confirming whether that response would include a provincewide strike, but said, “it’s one of the things that's actively under consideration."

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