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For the first time in more than 150 years, Alberta’s electricity is coal free
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this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2024
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Great headline but doesn't indicate what replaced it.
Carbon dioxide still getting produced in massive quantities.
Coal and other hydrocarbons still being produced for export. But, hey, if it gets burned in another jurisdiction that isn't our problem, right? We will put up those glass barriers all the way to space so our atmospheres don't mix.
Southern Alberta is probably the best place in Canada for massive scale solar installations. Get on it.
Alberta declared solar panels "ugly" so they wont be installing them anymore.
Alberta said that putting it on prime agricultural land needed some restrictions, and rightly so. The amount of good farmland that's under solar panels now in south and central is disconcerting. There's no end of shit land in Alberta that's better suited to solar panels anyway.
It goes to show how little they actually care about capitalism. If farmland is more productive (makes more money) producing solar, then capitalism would say turn it into solar.
They're literally stealing money from the farmers.
https://renewablesassociation.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/EN-2023-Map.png
Alberta produces 2-3X more energy per capita from wind and solar than any other province, and has almost as much renewable energy storage than the rest of Canada put together.
Thats awesome, but leaves out the fact that BC and Ontario do it by Hydro Electric dams, so solar and wind is less attractive
Manitoba too! Net exporter of hydro.
Quebec does hydro. Ontario just calls it that, but majority comes from nuclear.
It probably wasn't that good for propaganda to call it "Nuclear One" when they've privatized the crown corporation.
Ha yeah, Ontario says it is only 1/3rd actual hydro power
Well, I guess we all work with what we got, huh.
Battery storage, I presume. Many other provinces don't need the storage due to the ability to vary the output from dams.