Rural Alberta is under attack by Rachel Notley. This time, the Sheerness coal mine and generating station at Hanna, Alberta are her targets.
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Sheerness coal mine and the 700 megawatt power plant are on the chopping block because the NDP government is plowing ahead with its plan to phase out cheap reliable coal fired electrical generation.
Sheerness employs about 200 people in a town of about 2500. That’s huge.
But Notley doesn’t care about coal towns, rural farming communities and small towns who rely on oil and gas because they don’t vote for her. They never will. They vote Wildrose. Some even vote PC.
Imagine if 10 percent of Edmonton's government workers lost their jobs because of a single NDP policy. There would be massive outcry, strikes and marches in the street.
But the NDP would never do that. They need those urban voters.
But they don't need Hanna. Those families in small towns across the province, towns just like Hanna -- well, they're just the latest sacrifice on the Altar of Al Gore. Just more collateral damage in Notely's war on oil and gas.
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Now, imagine if coal, oil, and gas companies took a step back, and realized that what they really should be branding themselves as is energy companies. There is a lot of potential for clean, geothermal energy in deep tunnels, such as the ones already in place from coal mines, oil wells, and I’m sure, natural gas fields.
There is no reason to think that with a little bit of money for retraining (a little short-term pain for long-term gain), the same Albertans who worked in a coal mine could be taught how to work in a geothermal power plant, or any number of renewable options.
Coal, oil, and natural gas are all going to run out some day, and we already know the devastating impact that working in a coal mine has on people’s health. I applaud the phasing out of coal mine activity, as long as replacements that are renewable and put people back to work are put in place.
That should be the next logical step for the NDP in Alberta – to retrain laid off workers so that they don’t have to be laid off for long. That’s where some of the carbon tax money should go.
Unless the energy companies pledge to do this R+D for greener, renewable energy themselves, they shouldn’t get the massive subsidies they are still about to get.
I am a social democrat, and I will not apologize for being so. Conservatives are on the wrong side of history, as usual.
According to many health studies compiled by Forbes and their “deathprint” of US coal plants, the adverse health effects of carbon particulates generated by the Sheerness power plant may kill about 101 people per year. Someone else can check my math. Here are my sources.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-deathprint-a-price-always-paid/
(15,000 deaths per trillion kWh, or 15 deaths/billion kWh
http://www.atcopower.com/Our-Facilities/Our-Power-Technologies/Coal-Fired-Thermal/Sheerness
The Sheerness power plant produces 780 megawatts.
A 1 megawatt power plant produces 8,670,000 kWh per year, assuming no downtime, meaning that Sheerness can produce up to 6,762,600,000 kWh per year. 6.76 billion kWh per year.
(15 deaths/billion kWh) x (6.76 billion kWh per year) = 101 deaths per year.
So true, I wager that most of these folks working dawn to dusk out in the nether regions are not even on Facebook. for them “angry birds” most likely brings to mind angry Flickers chasing the Magpies that just stole eggs out of their nest. I bet their still doing stupid destructive things like plowing the land and chasing poor cows about the hills under the guise of some fictitious construct such “rural culture”. Too bad the cows are sent to those nasty slaughter houses, but good news, I heard that our newly arriving Muslim friends have a way better plan for those cows with the Halal thing, just in time too.
But hey if we can institute enough farm safety regulations and kill those damn little towns and farms of ignorant redneck people out there by suppressing things like the cheap energy industry production in those nether regions we can then set them all in homeless shelters here in Calgary and Edmonton, that will allow us to get on with our real lives in the real world of “Social Media” and “Social License”.
Hey, to hell with worrying about old trivialities like $16 oranges and such, with our new BFF Trudeau we are off to COP21, Going to make it an early Christmas for the the IMF’s Global warming fund, folks all over the world will love us for sure, don’t you just get that fuzzy warm feeling already. Its only paper money with the Queen’s picture on it anyway, and as we have seen recently its quickly becoming worthless. When that is all used up there are plenty of Quebec artists who can make much prettier pictures on the new stuff.
great times ahead.
So true, I wager that most of these folks working dawn to dusk out in the nether regions are not even on Facebook. for them “angry birds” most likely brings to mind angry Flickers chasing the Magpies that just stole eggs out of their nest. I bet there still doing stupid things like plowing the land and chasing poor cows about the hills, oops sorry there are no hills near Hanna.
But hey if we can institute enough farm safety regulations and kill those damn little towns full redneck redneck real people out there by suppressing things like the cheap energy industry in those nether regions we can then set them all in homeless shelters here in Calgary and Edmonton. that will allow us to get on with our real lives in the real world of “Social Media” and “Social License”.
great times ahead.
If not, this headline is misleading. Yellow journalism.
When 1% of the earth’s inhabitants are DOING something about ending pollution, it’s going to take many, many, many years to actually see a difference, and doing it in a economy crushing, socialist way, the people AND the climate suffer.
YOU ARE CONTRIBUTING TO THE END OF THE WORLD. YOUR CHILDREN WILL HAVE TO LEAVE IN PERPETUAL CHAOS BECAUSE OF YOUR IGNORANCE TOWARDS NATURE.
Alberta doesn’t need COAL anymore… Renewable is the way of the future. And to all you ignorant folks out there that still don’t ‘believe’ in global warming- Alberta is the epic center of wasted time and energy. We are the reason the planet is in turmoil right now.
OMG Tammy, I am so sick of msm groupies coming over to the Rebel and whining when they don’t know what they are talking about. The NDP is the sngle handedly destroying Alberta. And by closing down coal producers, is helping to hamper business in the whole country.