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Its going down at least. But the last bit is the hardest - displacing natural gas. I have high hope for the Eavor Loop geothermal baseload system, and the Proton Technoligies hydrogen generation tech.
Amazon announced Wednesday it will purchase power from a massive new solar farm in Alberta, marking the e-commerce giant's second renewable energy investment in Canada.
I read somewhere in one of the articles that Amazon will be buying their power from the Travers solar farm near Vulcan, which apparently is going to be the biggest one in Canada, and one of the biggest ones in the world.
Hopefully something will actually get built on that site soon. I'm tired of seeing so many empty lots in East Village. The moment seems to have really slowed.
Damn, that is an alarming stat i didn't know that. Makes the statement Yves Blanchet made about the referendum even funnier and more valid: https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/alberta...itches-green-equalization-in-canada-1.5650984
My understanding is that with natural gas being as cheap as it has been, it didn't make sense to go to nuclear power. That might change if the price of natural gas keeps going up, and if we paid the same price for natural gas as they do in Europe or Japan, other energy sources would get consideration.
It's pretty rich for Alberta to hold the following two positions: (1) The rest of Canada benefits financially from the oil sands, therefore the emissions generated from the oil sands should count for Canada as whole and not just Alberta. (2) The rest of Canada has no business trying to interfere with oil production in Alberta, whether it is capping emissions or blocking pipelines.
I don't think it's rich. Canada has benefited as a whole from the Oil Sands, in the form of billions of dollars, especially Quebec. To my knowledge Western Canada still uses oil from the oil sands, and a large amount of that oil is also being exported to the U.S. Money from those exports gets dispersed around the country in different ways. There's no question that Canada as a country benefits from the oil sands. I'm not saying all of Canada is to blame, but Albertan's aren't the only ones to blame. If the rest of Canada stopped using oil from Alberta, stopped taking any royalties or revenues from Alberta oil, including money made off energy stocks or funds, stopped taking profit from products or services sold to Alberta, stopped having workers from other provinces work in the oil sands... then yeah it would be an Alberta only issue.
That is true. You didn't say that. Though this is basically the rhetorical position of our provincial government. The fact is, the other provinces' responsibility for oil sands emissions is exactly proportional to the amount of control those provinces exercise over the oil sands. Money may flow from the oil sands to Quebec through federal taxes, but the Province of Quebec has little direct control over the oil sands. The emissions equalization scheme that Blanchette is advocating would be a way for Quebec to try to exercise some control over the oil sands.
I could see SMRs in operation in Alberta, and in particular in the oil sands and industrial heartland within 5 years. The benefit is that they can be deployed where required, thereby reducing transmission costs.
Very true. As climate change worsens, I expect we'll see more finger pointing and blame, political battling, etc.. The best thing Alberta can do is speed up the process towards diversification and the use of green energy. O&G will be around for a while yet, but Alberta still needs to begin the transition, and the sooner the better.
I wonder what the stats will look like when coal is completely phased out, and many of these solar projects come online? Even though gas is a carbon emitter it emits less than coal. We'll still be a ways out, but at least we'll be heading in the right direction.
