Alberta introduces strict new rules for future renewable energy projects | Power & Politics
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- Alberta’s Utilities Minister Nathan Neudorf explains the province's new rules for future wind and solar development in the province, including how much of the province could be included in new buffer zones around protected areas. The rules come a day before a pause on approvals for new wind and solar projects, announced in August 2023, is set to be lifted.
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I live in Calgary and I can't see the mountains in the summer anymore because of smoke from forest fires. Maybe something should be done about that "view scape".
Get used to it. Our boreal forest burns on roughly a 80 year cycle to regenerate itself. Humans have done a great job preventing it the past 50 years. Now mother nature is over coming our efforts. So yes we will see more fires no matter what we do. Mother nature will not be denied.
Stop the environmentalists setting fires
When I lived in Calgary, I couldn't see the mountains because of smog.
@@barktwid Never known Calgary to be very smoggy, maybe living downtown I guess. I'm not downtown. Clear as bell today, always clear on a sunny days. They disappear when the smoke rolls in where I live.
@@djs164 do you know why you don't see smog anymore?
If only Alberta had the same "RULES" for fossil fuel projects.
Many former tobacco lobbyists went to work for the fossil fuel industry, though not many got to be premier of a province dedicated to fossil fuels.
BINGO! $60B DEFICIT ON CLEAN UP COSTS ALONE!
We need a completely unregulated green energy industry. I want windmills in every back yard. Who cares that they rely on massive amounts of concrete and are unrecyclable? They last 10 to 25 years and don’t work in -25°C. They look great, and it gets rid of all those pesky birds and bees. No rules at all, that’s what I say. Who cares about the view anyways.
Parks all have buffer zones for other projects
@@BlueTeamRedTeamexactly. It’s not about whether they work and if they’re environmentally friendly. It’s just how they look and what amount of virtue signalling we can all get out of it.
Yup, ucp made their position clear. Renewable energy has no place in Alberta. Only industry that they support here is oil and gas, anything else can go elsewhere. They can take theie 33 billion elsewhere. Surprised she didnt straight up ban renewable energy altogether.
Well, if you start using alternative energy, you no longer need China's Albertan deposits of oil sands and Alberta just won the court case allowing them to sell the 3% China needed to own a majority stake in it.
Notice it's only been since then that she's become unreasonable?
I did.
yeah its pretty sad. Alberta is going to be in a horrible position 20 years from now when they're cash cow has died...
@@3184Patrick with the upcoming years of drought, she has the authority to decide where the bulk of the water should go. Oil and gas, or farmers. She didn't tell oil and gas to restrict thier water consumption, produce other forms of fuel, or reduce thier quantity. She did with farmers.
How about a story on the Australian billionaire trying to get an open pit coal mine in our Rockies approved. Where is that story?
It is in the internet.
Since you know this story why not tell us?
Thanks for the whataboutism.
Told and forgotten. Canadians don't care enough.
Saw it on CTV yesterday - it's getting coverage too.
Q: how can you tell that a government is in the pockets of
the zombie fuel cartels?
A: (see video above)
Q: How can you tell a man lives in his parents basement and has no understanding about the real world, as he types on a keyboard that was made with oil.
A:See the comment above
@@Myopinion789 did mommy forget to make you a hotpocket today?
@@anneteefah4857no but your mom did me a nice favour this morning 😉👍🏻
it was great.
Hey 👋🏻 go get 5 safe and effectives today 👍🏻
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@@Myopinion789 both my parents have been dead for 15 years.
Q: how can you tell someone is an agent of the zombie fuel cartels?
@@kidmohair8151how can you tell when someone is brainwashed and believes there is a replacement for oil….when there isn’t….yet.
Don't need to watch this. Smith wants to RULE, not REPRESENT. Imagine if she put a halt on all drilling for 6 months? Perish the thought. Oh, and by the way, rejecting the Pharmacare plan before ever READING IT, shows her authoritarian tendencies. Good luck Alberta, you reap what you sow.
Liberal/NDP troll! She is sticking up for us. This global warming bullshit needs to go!
We are quite happy, just take care of your own backyard..
I am so incredibly happy with her ruling!! You obviously haven’t been exposed to Notley’s disgusting anarchy.
What a blatantly dishonest policy and a whole load of meaningless words by Nathan Neudorf that didn't clarify a thing. Props to the interviewer for pressing him, not that it amounted to much.
Don't come crying to your neighbouring provinces who invested in renewable energy when you have to import all your power from them once the oil gravy train dries up.
Will they have strict new rules restricting oil and gas developments in the same way as well?
I hope not!!! Drill baby drill!
We already do, and we had them long before these godawful windmills were set up everywhere.
Nope, because those Neanderthals are addicted to oil and gas. The views are better on the BC side of the mountains anyway :-)
Windmills don't work. It's a sham for people to feel good 😢
Why would they have to be new rules an impact assessment has been a thing in oil and gas for a long time many project that have been set forward have been shut down. In most cases it takes years to approve oil and gas projects witch is good. This took a few months and the same people who say they are all for the environment are flipping over making sure the environment is protected I am lost how people who say they care for environment are mad at this
we have to protect the scenic view of the white caps on the rocky mountains... by making it harder to invest in renewables?
That kind of logic is lost on them.
Canada is carbon neutral doesn’t matter what we do it’s not gonna affect climate change
@@eyeexaggerate7687that’s the point it’s so illogical but they don’t even try to hide it. It’s so obvious so the con base can see what they’re doing
Or at least have some rules for where these awful industrial parks are being build, yes.
@@Canadianwithacat I don't associate with political parties, mostly because I have a functioning brain - but if you think that solar panels and wind turbines are a way to change the climate, you're sadly mistaken; liberal or conservative.
what an embarrassment
Been a dupe from the beginning.
How's having the most renewables in Canada an embarrassment
@@rogergiddy2634Not for long after these rules. This excludes 63% of Alberta.
@@cherrytreepermaculture756 According to Ottawa, and they don't live there.
Blame Ottawa for not allowing you to own a fourth skidoo.
Alberta never stopped burning this winter, the fires merely went dormant, and are going to flare up immediately after the spring thaw.
This is normal for fires that burn in areas were peat is located
Yep. And no plan for it.
Ground fires have been happening for thousands of years.
over 55 percent of fires last year human started
Enjoy the drought!
Just when you thought the Conservatives in Alberta couldn't get any dumber.
Wind and solar isn’t the answer either.
@@semkim9209 yes it is. I run multiple homes off solar and battery storage.
@@semkim9209 I mean, it so clearly is the answer. Anyone that denies that is high on copium.
@@AUG_XZABER what's wrong with natural gas home heating? All your solar panels don't magically manufacture themselves and appear on your roof without using a ton of energy either you know
@@iceman18211oh wow a home uses so much power! Solar power cannot sustain businesses, public services and infrastructure aka hospitals, schools etc. It can’t even generate enough energy for a block of homes that are charging their electric vehicles. My conclusion is you live somewhere else than Canada.
Yet the tarsands and oli well sure will continue oh and pipelines sure dont count either. The hypocrisy of Alberta for criticizing BC when they do the same....
The Alberta government and the oil lobby want renewables to stop and I can understand why… It is getting really hard to come up with silly legislation.
The oil company lobbyists have spoken.
Better than the wind and solar lobbyists. At least oil is a reliable energy source.
Actually it's more the people who have to put up with these windmills and solarpanel farms that finally have been heard.
Coal too*
@@NotjustGreyContrary to Wildrose rhetoric, the existence of night time does not in fact make solar unreliable. Stop pretending that batteries don't exist. We've been storing energy with pumped hydro for a century and there are plenty more options than that.
More Conservative over-regulation!
lol. Do you have any idea the liberal over regulation of all fossil fuel production?? Do you know what hypocrisy means?
Big gubbamint NoW!
More regulation for green and renewable energy quickly!
Carbonservative logic is astounding sometimes.
Heaven forbid we would put up our own power generation and not have to pay the existing power suppliers who maintain power transmission lines everywhere one looks.
Most of the infrastructure was built by the taxpayers and then eventually sold off to private companies for pennies on the dollar.
Going backwards is a direction
I don't think you understand energy density. Infrastructure scale wind and solar make no sense. The only way the energy amortization calculation works on either wind or solar is if you exclude the manufacture, installation and end of life issues; and use maximum possible energy output instead of what they actually produce.
Go ahead and drive through Pitcher creek and you can witness most turbines standing still at peak hours. This is coming from someone who uses wind and solar in my personal installations. Politicians and companies are very dishonest about the efficiency and efficacy of this type of power generation.
Aged out turbine blades are now being burnt in combination with coal for concrete production, and it's being seen as a win because up to this point they just get buried. Food for thought.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Armchair economics from a dotarded troll? Yeah You're a real expert! LOL@@RealityGutPunch
@@stickynorth nowhere did I mention economics. I'm sorry about your disability. Please do work to understand what a killowatt hour is.
@@RealityGutPunch I don't think you understand long-term issues. This would have been trivial if we'd addressed it 40-50 years ago. Complaining about renewable energy economics at this point is embarrassing, just stick your head back in the sand and let the adults tackle the problems
@TheJerbol long term issues such as what exactly...be specific
Sheep literally tend the land at most of the solar farms that I’ve seen in AB.
@@schrempskynate8944 I have photos that I wish I could post, one really good one from Innisfail. I titled it “power to the sheeple”
@@schrempskynate8944 I replied to this but I don’t see it. Anyway, Innisfail is a good example.
There are ALOT of sheep in alaberta. You will find them muttering "freedom" and crying about Trudeau
Why not put solar cells on top of warehouse roofs?
That's up to the warehouse now isn't it ?
Why not put 50k worth of solar on the roof of your house ?
@@MrSilvertech Yes. And it would be wise of them to do so. Use their own electricity.
@@MrSilvertech If I had the money that the warehouses have, I certainly would. :)
@@19king14 if you had their money you would do the math and probably not do it either
so long as oil and mines projects follow the same rules then OK. It is interesting they want to control the talks with Ottawa ( think prescription recently)but they also don't want to talk to the communities affected.
Never seen a moratorium for pipelines
Also throwing this out there, your spokesperson probably shouldn't be grinding his teeth through an interview when he is being filmed. Tends to make a person look crazy.
Typical CBC so called journalism. Not trying to get clarification just pushing liberal talking points.
I think the area around Fort Mac was a “Pristine Viewscape”.
It used to be beautiful. The place where suncor is used to be prime hunting grounds for moose. You could drink out of the rivers and lakes. Now it's a cesspool of pollution and leaking tailing ponds with sick forests and people
@@myliege6223it was always contaminated goofball, that pristine land around it was created by the oil companies 😜
oh but that doesn't count... lol what a joke Alberta has become. pretty sad, i use to be proud to say i grew up in Alberta now im embarrassed.
Well, we know whose paying off the Alberta politicians at least lol.
We need nuclear
100%
Never happen with cons. Oil and gas only here. Made her position clear.
@bigmike6461 Why not go nuclear. It's cleaner, cheaper and far more effective than fossil fuels ever would be. Even Saskatchewan is looking into it. Ontario sells energy from it's nuclear power plant.
@@SpectacularDisaster because smith has made it clear, they only supposed oil and gas in Alberta. No one else is welcome.
@@BlueTorch888 Nuclear waste is encased in led and doesn't pump a bunch of CO2 into the atmosphere. It could power way more than fossil fuels until nuclear fusion is ready to be mass marketed.
“We are Albertans. We won’t make any sacrifices to save the world from our corrupt godfather Big Oil”
The corrupt authoritarian Trudeau regime is the villain here, Einstein
lol
Quit driving you car, heating your home and using the thousands of things made from oil.
@@theowoytowich9959 EXACTLY. Stop using your oil made phone. IGNORANCE IS NOT BLISS.
Yeah yeah kiss the ring on the finger of big oil
The tar sands are one hell of a viewscape, literally
Fort McMordor
Don't forget the open pit mine in our pristine mountains.
Have you seen the reclaimed portions?
@schrempskynate8944 I've seen it, too. It is beautiful, and the plant life is healthier. Those areas don't leach crude into the Athabasca River anymore either.
you don't know what you're talking about
Yes. Well, not sure I have any clarity on where renewables fit in the Alberta plan. Seems like the good old UCP has a pretty restrictive plan laid out for us…..or maybe not, according to the minister here….not very helpful, perhaps even less clear…..but “don’t worry, we’ll be approving the projects”. As a farmland owner…I bet we could make more $ as an energy generator…sounds like approval will be tough to get!
Guess I’ll stick to gas wells….oh and canola, wheat-oats-barley-peas…..hay too. Very renewable energy… “Land….the’re not making any more….SC
You know what else isn't being made anymore ? Clean air. Once CO2 is released into the atmosphere it stays there for a long time. And with CO2 comes climate change. Edmonton didn't get any snow in November this year. You can have all the land you want... if it is burnt to a crisp it won't matter.
Just wait when they find out no one recycles wind farm turbines
They do, it gets shredded and mixed into concrete. The blades last around 20 years, plenty of time to continue finding new ways. Someone here mentioned nuclear, so, let’s use that as an example. Chernobyl is encased in concrete with around 100 years of time to figure out what to do with it.
@@eyeexaggerate7687 explain to me the field in Texas with thousands of turbine blades not being recycled . You can web search it
If it doesn't burn it doesn't earn in Alberta. Can you even see a wind mill from 35 miles away.
How won't renewable developers bring cases to courts demanding the same standard being applied to other developments.
Oil pumps, gas pipes and the forest clearance for the same, electrical lines, roads bridges, airfields, ditches, parking lots, commercial and industrial buildings, chemical processing and storage, etc.
All of those do have strict regulations. How about we demand that the renewable companies guarantee a certain level of power at all times? Why do we let them on the grid without knowing that if we need power they will be able to provide power. The rest of the power generation have very strict regulations and they need to report if a plant will be down. The gas plants are running between 90-99% of the time. Wind and Solar are between 20-35%.
And what strict regulations do they have?The tar sands don't appear to have any. As for renewably generated energy, it's always been considered desirable by those who run the power grid. As they expand the better contribution they will make and the increase in battery power storage will make all power production more consistant..@@pin65371
There are far more restrictive regulations for oil and gas goofball
But, bizarrely, you can't mention any of them.@@MrSilvertech
@@glennmartin6492 I'm not your Google. The field deals with many thousands of ridiculous and redundant regulations
When we were expanding the Dow Fort Saskatchewan site back in the 80's, -there was none of this...agricultural/tourism/vista stuff...yeah nothing like Chemical plants to draw the tourists to see the beautiful vista of stacks, bermed wastewater ponds and smoke plumes...and same in Calgary and Red Deer and fort McMurray and...and...and...
Imagine complaining about minimal agricultural impacts, debatably MORE tourism dollars and BETTER viewscapes when you sell your province off wholesale to oil/gas
Minimal agricultural impacts?? Do you know anything at all about farming?
Alberta is a classic example of what happens when you elect clowns: you get a circus.
Oh I see so solar panels and wind turbines that are above ground are bad but pit mining below ground is ok providing you don't fall in looking at the mountains.
It's pretty much Captain Planet villainy at this point, just an utter hatred of the environment lol
PS. BC is the largest exporter of coal in North America. Why don’t you care about that? Hypocrite.
An extra hour in the therapist chair for you this week. Hang in there, buddy, the world doesn’t really hate you.
@MikeJones50911braindead liberal alert
@MikeJones50911 you make a number of silly and false assumptions.
You’re a hypocrite if you push for wind but excuse BCs coal production.
Give your head a shake and try some consistency. 😘
@MikeJones50911 “deny climate reality” tells me you’ lack basic reading comprehension skills. You just settle for what cbc tells you to think. My other post did not deny anything to do with climate change. I simply pointed out the reality that the current failed policies do nothing other than make life more expensive for Canadians.
You are pro-poverty and anti-Canadian
Climate changes. Wind and solar are not going to solve that. Phasing out coal might help.
Absolutely asinine. Moving backwards for sure.
Yes, protecting the environment is terrible. Responding to the concerns of your constituents is regressive. We need unfettered development of giant unreliable, unrecyclable turbines that have short lifespans and depend on massive amounts of concrete and heavy industry to build. How else can we save the planet and protect the environment?
We could simply go with nuclear and use about 95% less land, and the power generated would be 24/7.
A bit of a cost and development time issue though. Why not harness the most abundant and cheaply available energies on the planet first? Do humans always need to do everything the most difficult and risky way?
Oh Alberta you will never learn.
The powers that be don't give a damn, they spend more time out of the province anyhow.
It is totally NOT like putting the CN tower in your backyard... oh god. Its like people dont want cheap energy...
Nothing cheap or reliable about it.
Stop supporting policies that make good and energy unaffordable.
You are supporting the impoverishment and starvation of Canadians.
You support inefficient and harmful “renewable” tech which does not supply reliable energy. All it does is make life more expensive.
@@chadtosh6831I see you drink the insane Texas Koolaid…🙄
@@TheTechnoPilot I do not. I would love to not have a diesel bill anymore, but these renewables are not there yet. Why push the technology when it isn’t ready yet to cause a bunch of misery? My tractors and kenworth have no viable alternatives yet.
@@TheTechnoPilot Germans are paying 40cents USD per killowatt hour. That's 4-6 times as expensive as any Canadian. You don't understand the difference between getting multi-national companies to lobby your politicians to install a wildly inefficient wind or solar farm; then sending you power at obscene rates - and you putting in your own wind and solar.
Not to mention that none of the mining or manufacturing for said turbines will happen in this country, so even when they break down we're relying on those same multinationals to come to the rescue with parts. And they don't. See the Nordex wind turbine farm in P.E.I. where 6/10 of them don't operate, and the German company that operates out of Spain can't seem to muster the parts for 60 million.
Your opinion does not at all align with reality. Your screen name is betrayed by your lack of technical knowledge.
Just a way to Scuttle any kind of Alternate Energy, so as to please the O&G Industry that Owns the Alberta Government
Letting individual provinces decide how quickly they react to climate change is like letting your children set their own bedtime.
yes lets leave it up to narcissistic turdope, im sure they have canadas best interest in mind
Pretending windmills will solve climate issues is like believing that the budget will balance itself.
@@BlueTeamRedTeamDon’t be ridiculous. No one is saying windmills will solve the climate crisis. A suite of various initiatives, including using renewable energy sources is what’s required.
Yeah, but in this scenario, Ottawa is the deadbeat dad who only shows up to yell and smack the kids around, and hold his hand out to collect undeserved child support.
@@maplejames6992Moronic take.
Children can fight in court for a clean and future in Alberta ... where is the intelligence in Alberta ?
let's worry about the million abandoned holes in the country.
or even the oil industries delinquent taxes to municipalities in the province.
got a deposit to clean up oil sands yet?
nope.
and just like with oil, tell farmers they can't do want they want with their land again to have income.
big business became big brother.
considering the millions in taxpayer funding that continues into it's own war room propaganda machine started with kenney.
It's ok to cut the top off a mointain and pollute the surrounding waterways, but heaven forbid a windfarm that has the same footprint as an oil well without the pollution in a farmers field. The level of ignorance and stupidity is beyond comprehension. What are the UCP and their overlords, TBA, smoking?
Well, if you look at Toronto, they don't even allow developers to build houses on farmland. And we housing is an essential need. Then Alberta is completely justified to not allow solar panels on farmland.
Does Calgary or Edmonton allow rooftop turbines?
I'm not aware of one Canadian city that allows turbines.
They're popping up all over Europe, small rooftop units that incorporate wind and solar.
Also, farmland in Toronto?
clickbait much?
Sure. Just ignore the devastation the fossil fuels have done to the land. Killing the land and you're talking about views. Wind and solar are not intrusive if placed in industrial parks. Just another asinine RW nonsense.
Shouldnt that be up to the farmers who own that land? in either case?
Farmlands in Toronto!! Did you mean firms because Toronto is a business hub 😂
@@SPAMMAN123456789 maybe, but as much as I hate government I think governments true role should be looking out for the country and its citizens not only now but in the future.
Destroying farmland is a very short term gain. If we don't start making legislation to protect our country from its self at a more rapid pace this country's going to fall apart built off short term gain and single interests, which we currently have a terrible track record of since JT got into Power...
They made the rule that it had to be a huge tri-blade wind turbine, it had to be big, by making the rule that it couldn't be small.
You don't mind the old garage vent whirly birds, do you? A forest of cute little different turbines would be as effective as a single enormous eyesore of one and they could feed the not transformers but batteries, not needing transformer oil but batteries instead.
I know what I'd do for a battery, Drill a hole 400 feet deep, 8 inches across, 100 feet x 8 inch of tungsten or that really heavy steel they use to make dies(it's like $500 for a 6 inch cube of this stuff), and use the wind or solar to pressurize an air chamber under the massive capstone of tungsten or that other thing. Use the pressurized air to drive the compressor, minus the hoist assist for the capstone, generate more electricity according to newton.
Then repeat that however many times I can under my 1/4 acre. Sell the excess to the grid.
Now all I need is the 1/4 acre and the $175 000 000 I'll need for the capstones.
It takes a whole lotta coal to make a Chinese solar panel.
True, then you get clean decentralized power for 20-40 yrs off them, well maintained. I certainly would rather have panels on my roof, than a generator in the back.
@@TheNewMediaoftheDawn then you are oblivious to what it takes to produce, install, and replace / recycle, these "renewables"
This is the cbc mouthpiece that labelled the Alberta government as a lower level government so one should keep that in mind when watching him.
As Alberta increased Fossil Fuels to our world the pretty mountain forest burn and the snow and glaciers disappear. The irony is criminal.
The climate right now has nothing to do with oil and gas time to use the brain you were born with if it still works... hint hint, it's the sun that's driving the climate to act as it is that, and the geo engineering, you have extreme weather patterns going on
Our current weather is by no means extreme, the earth had warmer average temperatures during the Roman Empire, it's an inconvenient truth I suppose.
@@jamessykes2760 ok boomer
@@FernieSenders A 1986 analysis of Alpine glaciers concluded that the period from AD 100 to 400 was significantly warmer than earlier and later centuries. Artifacts recovered from the retreating Schnidejoch glacier have been taken as evidence for the Bronze Age, Roman, and Medieval Warm Periods.
@@jamessykes2760well our glaciers are going bye bye, you should be thrilled.
... save taxpayers money by cutting up and privatization of the CBC ... billions upon billions of savings
Yah, its tuff when they report the truth
Most records say cbc receives around 1.2 billion of funding. That's not billions and billions. I wonder how much tax oil companies dodged by using shell companies to purposely bankrupt and leave the orphaned wells to the alberta govt.
Cbc gets about 1.2 billion in govt funding. That's not billions and billions. Why don't we talk about the billions and billions oil companies saved, and will cost the alberta government, which has to clean up the orphaned wells?
This all makes good sense. As a man who works estimating power projects I can tell you that without government (taxpayer) infusions these projects are cancelled following the RFP process. Those are the simple facts. relate it to the failing EV programs and what is happening with manufacturers. Government can want it all they want but they cannot force consumers to like it nor buy it or into it. Solar and wind will never support a sustainable electric grid... NEVER. Maybe years down the road technology may change but today it is not feasible. I worked on solar projects years back for about 4 years. Long story short after monitoring every system for two years... the then, Energy Mines and resources finding were "not fit for the Canadian climate. Very little has changed since that time.
All power projects get government (taxpayer) infusions. That makes no sense.
Solar and wind will never support a sustainable electric grid. That's an all or nothing fallacy.
How much did they cost vs how much did they produce. Compare that to fossil fuels. Then compare the other factors. Facts don't care about your feelings.
Whew, finally an expert opinion on the CZcams comments sections. Just where we need to go for thoughtful, evidence based analysis. 🙄
Pristine viewscapes, I couldn't see Stantec Tower from my window in my old apartment for half the of the summer and I was 8 blocks away. I was at work one day talking to a guy who was terrified his house was going to burn down because the wildfires were so close he could see the glow from his front porch. I feel for rural Albertans who support this person. Danielle Smith doesn't believe in climate change or hiring firefighters and doesn't care about your homes.
A large number of these fires were stated by humans
But, Im sure she cares about her home.
Canada is already net negative in terms of C02 production, despite our very high per capita output. Solar and wind installation do nothing to address increasing population density.
Fires ravaged the southern Rocky Mountains in the 1910's and again in the mid 50's. It is curious that climate cycles never get factored in the over politicized discussion.
In your view, how many years after Canada moving to mostly renewable would wild fires cease to be an issue?
Also, do you have a firm understanding of the environmental impact in the mining, manufacture, shipping and installation of solar and wind power generation? I am willing to bet few would be willing to consider them renewable.
An iPhone does't get created in the Apple store, yet people often ignore the fact that our modern products; including solar panels or turbines, do not simply appear - we just get to ignore the environmental impact because we don't have to see it.
We frequently have long documentaries criticizing the petroleum industries practices, and rightly so. When have we seen CBC do a concerned documentary regarding the mining processes for the base minerals of solar panels, batteries or turbines?
She has no real reason to set this plan in motion other than the fact that she CAN! Her myopic view of environmental pressures on our planet has stopped Alberta's doing its part to aid in our country's renewable energies. How very American, Trumpian almost! 😢
@@nadineware9874 calling something "Trumpian" here in 2024 is determinate of an over emotional response to an issue you understand poorly.
But the flare stacks from sour gas wells are OKAY anywhere. Got it, thanks for clarifying Danielle. Smart.
There are many more wind mills than flare stacks from gas wells
If you new anything you would be dangerous.
@@theowoytowich9959 Guaranteed not so I looked both up - AB has ~6000 sour gas wells and just under ~1000 wind turbines. If protecting the pristine viewscapes in the foothills is really the critical goal, why doesn't the 35km radius ban include oilfield infrastructure in those same areas? It's a joke.
@@Dennis-ff2pf Google synonyms "new" and "knew" - not really sure what your point is.
Most gas well locations are the size of a personal resident lot. They do not stick up 60 to 100 meters like wind turbines.@@Langhorstiness
DOTARDED HOT MESS. JUST LIKE THE PREMIER!
Conservative Government over-reach. What happened to letting the market decide or not picking winners? Hypocrisy!
Meanwhile the place is riddled with contaminated dis-used oil wells which the Alberta government is not forcing the FF industry to clean up
lmao her opening lines about protecting agricultural, scenic lands....yeah those pump Jack's everywhere and oil and gas infrastructure, tar sand really benefited the farms and beauty of alberta...what a load of horse sh*t
Actually the tar sands are no where near the agricultural land of Alberta. Do you know how they were discovered? They were found along the Athabasca river leaching crude into the water ways naturally. The development there is actually cleaning up mother natures oil spill. The mined areas are reclaimed back to trees and grassy areas. It is actually nicer than what they were before the mining. It is the mining that is an eyesore, but it is a means to an end.
All sounds highly arbitrary and subject to abuse. Not to mention endless litigation.
AFAIK, solar & wind farms will need major retrofits every 25 years or so. Will we be able to successfully recycle the solar panels & the blades of the wind turbines? Forget about the relatively tiny volumes of nuclear waste - where will all the dead fibreglass blades be piling up 25, 50, 75, 100 years from now? Never forget how BIG (long) they are! The steel gear drives & copper-containing alternators & switchgear are no problem - they might even have longer lives than the blades.
And all this because some untestable computer models are predicting hard-to-detect rises in average global temperatures? I'd think Alberta farmers would welcome longer/warmer growing seasons. So many questions, so few answers...
Alberta already leading Canada in renewables,
Not for long after this.
And we will continue to lead@@cherrytreepermaculture756
@@cherrytreepermaculture756 Why not, Alberta has the best investment climate in Canada, didn't ban renewables , just where they can be built, Alberta leading the way in renewables that's a fact, and has been for 30 years
@@rogergiddy2634 Have you seen the map that shows the exclusion areas?
Breathtaking views?
Alberta names their sloughs.
Banff, jasper and basically anything west of Calgary. And the largest national wildlife reserve/park. Buffalo park.
look I condemn this government barely using this fig leaf of 'preserving pristine land' as an excuse to hobble renewables for oil companies. But alberta does genuinely have some gorgeous areas to see.
@@SPAMMAN123456789 Yes they do. It was just a jab at the claim Alberta is a scenic wonderland.
I vacation in the mountains and there’s not many places in the world that compare.
The Tar sands are so pretty.
That’s why they’re being cleaned up. And it’s Oil, not tar. Tar is man made.
They aren't talking about the tar sands, they are talking about the rocky mountains
The man made park right next to it was created by oil companies. It's far nicer and cleaner than it was originally
Bullshit title. Alberta has much stricter rules for clean fossil fuel projects.
When are they going to Ban the oil derricks ?????
IF IT IS CBC ,I WILL DISLIKE, but totally support Alberta
Thank you, UCP for protecting agricultural lands!!! One hail storm and all those solar panels are buried!!! Terrible!! NOTHING is RENEWABLE!!!
Education and expertise on a topic before voicing an opinion contrary to experts is essential, sadly you seem to fail that basic fundamental action.
Growing up in Alberta i loved seeing windfarms. not sure how burning coal or natural gas and melting the snow in the mountains and killing off the environment will leave a better view lol.
tourism like camping is pretty much only for locals though... plus WTF is going on in that gong show now???
Wooohooo thank you Danielle you are awesome awesome awesome....f u CTV!!!!!
The only negative to renewable energy is less money for the big guys. Anything good for us they will make any reason to say it is bad, cost too much etc.
Your ignorance of how renewables failed Germany and California is showing. Oil and gas is the best thing for us
in Alberta we love oil soo much, we're prejudice against the Dutch now...
This is what they call hillbilly justice. Short sighted, aggressive single minded.
Ironic coming from a sheltered collage snob.
@@Mark_J_on_guitar With a record like that, you'd think one would have more appreciation for the rural prairies.
Oh well, not like the east has ever been friends to the west.
You have had over 6 MONTHS!!! You are killing an industry with uncertainty just like the NDP did with the oil and gas sector.
At last a voice of sanity...even if they dont meet the approval of the media.. some protection for the natural habitat and animals...Common sense finally prevails..
Great Policy !
For fossil fuel corporations
@@Method9 what’s your problem with cheap, reliable energy? You wanna freeze in the dark because the direction these environmental lunatics are taking Canada.
So much for Alberta being company friendly. I guess they didn't pay Smith enough.
Only company friendly to oil and gas. Anything else you're not welcome.
as the oil sands production continues ...
and Alberta is pushing the oil pipeline through BC ...
_right_
Put wind mills in downtown toronto it used to be farmland
Protect those property values for the high profiles...
When? When will AB governments start to face reality? Drought? O and G! , agricultural vs energy? Back to coal?
Working HARD for BIG OIL.....our next employer when we retire as politicians ....and now the UPC has legalized GRAFT and Gifts for Politicians......to a amount they will decide !......you can't NOT be a Corrupt Politician in the Province of Alberta, even if you try !
CBC is so infatuated with Daniel Smith. This just means she is 100% right.
Actually, no. They are disgusted with her, as are most Canadians.
@@checkfactschecking , let’s take a poll so far you are 1 and I have 11 thumbs up. You were saying Dufus?
@@daytonfunk1835 Read the room look at the rest of the comments...
Russian bot account.
@@daytonfunk1835 Dufus? You think you can do a survey on one post on YT??? LOL.
Once this fire season hits you wont have any "pristine viewscapes" to look at anyways. But sure keep kicking the can down the road.
Renewable is just a buzzword. No renewable power can be used as a base load as of today in Canada. Nuclear power is the future, especially in Alberta.
Agree
although i agree with you, i dont think you have the water needed for nuclear power
They're letting Alberta burn 🔥😢. He can be the Minister of Ashes....
You climate luddites starting forest fires.
Alberta isn’t burning. It’s f*cking winter time. Some hold over fires in deep peat soils that are fire guarded. They will not take off in the spring. Very common. Plus our boreal forest is designed by nature to burn off every 80 years roughly to regenerate itself. Humans have done a good job stopping a lot of fire the past 50 years. Now Mother Nature is simply overcoming our efforts to control fire. Politicians and media need to do a better job of describing how our forest functions. I do have a degree in forestry if you are interested.
I hear a reporter that's never seen Alberta and doesn't understand that Alberta isn't a desolate s*** hole in the middle of Canada and we would like to keep Alberta beautiful.....
As some one from Alberta, If the government rep said, the plan is to protect mostly the view of the Rockies and the west of the province, fine id have no more quarrels. But he doesnt say that, and also doesnt deny that the coal project in the same area is also still under consideration. It wreaks of once again, the conservative government bending over backwards for oil. They put the pause on to develop a concrete plan, and as the government rep is fumbling his questions like a politician with their feet to the flame, its clear they dont have a concrete plan, and he even says 'we are still considering things on a case by case basis'. And that when pressed that the regulations are meant to cover any energy project, he doesnt just say 'yes' he says' it depends on the regulator'. Which ones? third party reps from oil companies making a case? Again it wreaks of oil company brown nosing.
Each provence should be able to opt in or out of the liberal oil shell game . More backt to you is Trudeau math.1+1 =3 .
w e a k s a u c e
Good questioning and Neudorf is dancing to distract from his lack of actually answering.
All these comments made by people that hate oil and gas cbc! Give up all the objects in your world made possible from oil. Hypocrites!!!!
Alberta full of hypocrites, no wonder trudue is punishing them. Hate has no place in Canada
But you are ok with billons of taxes the oil industry pays for your healthcare and education
@theowoytowich9959 are you ok with the billions the alberta govt is gonna have to shell over to clean up orphaned wells that the older conservative govts allowed these oil companies to purposely leave behind
But i thought conservatives hated those pesky regulations
Turn the taps off for the sake of climate change of course
so good
Imagine being against renewables in 2024. Backwards thinking
Viewscapes, like they don't want to block people's view of their mass of oil rigs? 😂🤦♀️
If anything she’s trolling the CBC
Good for you Alberta. You are on the right track.
F CBC .... awesome awesome awesome...60 percent at least saved from this bs!!!!!