tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1892827037183316611.post3247415551653626471..comments2023-10-09T08:27:03.515-04:00Comments on Runesmith's Canadian Content: The Never-Ending Conservative Obstructionism Over Climate ChangeJennifer Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14610902519752808810noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1892827037183316611.post-14048214198155433982009-11-05T00:39:52.000-05:002009-11-05T00:39:52.000-05:00Excellent post Jennifer. What a cesspool of greed ...Excellent post Jennifer. What a cesspool of greed this country has become.Talk about a country going nowhere.<br />This is also another aspect to this story that particularly interests me. If in fact the government did tax the oil pimps and slow down development in the oil sands, it would mitigate the effects of the so-called Dutch Disease, and help keep the dollar under control both of which are responsible for wrecking our manufacturing base.<br />If the Progresive parties were smart they would use the following argument to gang up on Alberta.<br />They are WRECKING the Ontario and Quebec economies, because the Cons won't do ANYTHING to Big Oil. They are taking the bread out out the mouths of our children because they aren't willing to grow even a little bit slower. Those greedy bastards of the Calgary Gang.<br />The way I see it there are no progressive seats to lose in Alberta, and this could have the same effect on us as the NEP had for Alberta sometime in the last century. Unite us against a common enemy.<br />Needless to say I'll be working on this one... :)Simonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1892827037183316611.post-28081775887704684142009-11-02T01:06:33.000-05:002009-11-02T01:06:33.000-05:00Charlene - I never said that CCS was equally as di...Charlene - I never said that CCS was equally as discredited as corn ethanol. And to be sure, the problems with these two technologies couldn't be more different.<br /><br />In the case of CCS, it isn't the technology itself that has been discredited so much as the <a href="http://www.nrcan-rncan.gc.ca/media/newcom/2009/200998-eng.php" rel="nofollow">Canadian government's claims for it</a>. CCS could - maybe, someday - provide a partial bridge to a post-carbon world. But claiming that it could make 3/4 of our carbon emissions magically disappear - let alone in a reasonable timeframe or at a feasible cost - is yet another example of their complete divorce from reality.runesmithnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1892827037183316611.post-34768956731255004862009-11-01T23:37:53.000-05:002009-11-01T23:37:53.000-05:00Perhaps this report will make those Liberals who s...Perhaps this report will make those Liberals who sided with the Cons to delay passage of Bill C-311 reconsider their position?LMAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1892827037183316611.post-35903382730958790382009-11-01T20:43:41.000-05:002009-11-01T20:43:41.000-05:00Harper's got his firewall for the Alberta oil ...Harper's got his firewall for the Alberta oil and coal trade now and he's not giving up control of it without a fight. The firewall in question is, after all, the federal government.DwightWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1892827037183316611.post-4219567118902317832009-11-01T19:19:40.000-05:002009-11-01T19:19:40.000-05:00Clean coal costs dearly to get it that way..it wou...Clean coal costs dearly to get it that way..it would be cheaper to use natural gas.Carinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1892827037183316611.post-15918310639283041712009-11-01T17:01:44.000-05:002009-11-01T17:01:44.000-05:00I can't believe you condsider carbon capture t...I can't believe you condsider carbon capture to be as highly discredited as corn ethanol, which is worse than useless for reducing carbon emissions.<br /><br />Your link to the Canadian Press aricle on carbon capture ends with the almost flippant statement 'Groups such as Greenpeace say instead of sinking money into propping up emissions from coal-fired power plants and oilsands operations, government should pump the cash into renewable energy, like solar and wind projects.' Of course we'd all prefer solar and wind technology, but the world will continue to use coal, because it's there and it's cheap -- we need clean coal technology.Charlene Brownnoreply@blogger.com