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Sovereignty act may be used to fight 2035 net-zero electricity plan: Alberta premier (www.winnipegfreepress.com)

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[–] kae@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm shocked.

We're in for an interesting few years with Alberta. Anecdotally, some of my friends who live in rural Alberta voted for the UCP because the Alberta NDP allegedly cost them billions in oilfield investment.

When I pointed out that all cars were going to be electric by 2030/35, this was news to them. They had no idea that now was the time to pivot the economy to solar/wind and prepare for the not so distant future.

This is very much a get my friends rich scheme, while the people suffer. There is a precipitous cliff coming for Albertans, and ignorance won't be an option.

[–] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Hydrogen might be the way we go using solar power to produce it. That allows transportation and storage and I think hydrogen vehicles perform better in Alberta winter conditions and have faster refueling times (I am not an expert) but, yes, oil is a dying industry and they are just trying to squeeze every last penny from it instead of going hard in solar and retooling the economy for it from the ground up (training programs, etc).

That's what we get when we elect late stage capitalists masquerading as populist right wing ideologues, I guess.