Alberta and Saskatchewan can't be the only ones to tell Ottawa to stick it:
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she’s using the province’s Sovereignty Act for the first time to challenge Ottawa’s requirements to have a net-zero electricity grid by 2035.
Smith said she wanted to invoke the act to send a message that her government is serious about pushing back against Ottawa’s plan to green Canada’s electricity grid by 2035, a plan she says could wreak havoc on Alberta’s natural gas-based grid.
“We’re creating an opportunity for the federal government to do the right thing and back down,” Smith told reporters.
“We’re sending the message: ‘Keep working with us on our 2050 target.'”
(Sidebar: the green plans are utter garbage that will ultimately end up wrecking the environment rather than saving it. Carry on ...)
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This is an immediate crisis for Ottawa, compared to Smith’s more distant alarm.
By New Year’s Day, unless somebody blinks, one province will formally defy the carbon tax, with sympathy from several others.
That could be the snowball that starts an anti-tax avalanche.
Moe’s pledge follows the Liberals’ exemption of home heating oil from carbon tax. They admitted it was done for political gain in Atlantic Canada, then refused to allow a similar break for natural gas.
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Steven Guilbeault and the angry voice in his head are not at all pleased:
Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said he was surprised by Alberta invoking provincial legislation aimed at blocking his attempts to eliminate fossil fuels from its electricity grid, but said he will not be deterred from pushing ahead with his plan.
Because this fanatic is sure that he will get his way.
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Oil simply must remain in the ground!:
Alberta's New Democrat Opposition and a prominent First Nations leader are calling for a review of the province's energy regulator to be held in public, with public input.
Opposition Environment critic Jodi Calahoo Stonehouse says the current review, led by a longtime conservative activist and oilpatch executive, is too secretive.
Calahoo Stonehouse says the review of one of the most important agencies in Alberta has been handed over in a sole-source contract to a friend of the government, with no information as to its mandate or who it will meet with.
She's calling for a revamped regulator with new leadership, particularly in light of repeated releases of wastewater from oilsands operations.
Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation says his people have lost faith in the regulator and the federal government should step in to replace it.
The regulator did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the review.
No one has any plans to update ailing infrastructure, use the resources we already have to heat homes and fuel cares, and there are far too few people invoking a province's right to function without the interference of know-nothing autocrats who end up having to revise their poorly thought out ideologies.
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