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Alberta is the main player in Canada’s shale oil and gas industry. The outcome of this power struggle over climate ideology and its claimed consequences will be, let’s say, interesting.
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Alberta’s Premier has invoked a controversial piece of legislation to protect its citizens from the federal government’s Clean Electricity Regulation, reports OilPrice.com.
This is the first time the Sovereignty Act has been invoked in Alberta. The move involved Premier Smith tabling a resolution at the Alberta legislature that instructed provincial agencies such as the Alberta Electric System Operator to ignore the Clean Electricity Regulations when they came into effect, “to the extent legally permissible,” CBC reported.
The Sovereignty Act was enacted last year and its purpose was exactly the purpose it was used this week by the government: to protect the province from federal laws that the provincial government considers unconstitutional.
According to Premier Smith, the Clean Electricity Regulations will lead to energy shortages and grid instability. According to federal environment minister Steven Guilbeault, there was no legal basis for the Albertan government’s actions.
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“Alberta’s government will not put Albertans and their businesses at risk of freezing in the dark at -30C due to the federal government’s proposed unaffordable, unreliable and unconstitutional Clean Electricity Regulations (CERs),” Premier Smith told media.
She added that the provincial government had been forced to resort to the Sovereignty Act by federal minister Guilbeault who has taken to threatening provincial leaders with prosecution and imprisonment for refusing to implement the CERs.
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“These measures are not something that we want to do,” Smith said in Edmonton while laying out a motion to be debated under the Sovereignty Act. “They are a plan to counteract the absurd, illogical, unscientific and unconstitutional interference in Alberta’s electrical grid by a federal government that simply doesn’t care what happens to our province so long as they have a good virtue-signalling story to tell their leftist friends and special interests.”
The clean electricity regulations still only exist in draft form and are subject to revision; the federal government has invited feedback from provincial governments and other stakeholders. Strictly speaking, the proposed rules won’t be enforced until 2035.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/climate-electricity-danielle-smith-sovereignty-1.7041515
Well put, “oldbrew”… real scientists know the war on CO2 (and by extent fossil fuel usage) isn’t even good science fiction… it’s utter nonsense and displays the complete ignorance of those who fall for the narrative. Atmospheric CO2 could double and there would be no correlation with naturally changing climate. There hasn’t been any correlation over the past half-billion (plus) years and there won’t be any over the next half billion years.
The evidence in nature is clear. The only thing “settled” about “human-caused climate change science” is that it is complete fantasy concocted to expand government control.
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