Tell that to Alberta. Obsessed with rewriting this truth and positioning efforts to reverse the damage that’s been done in the search of short term profits.
Yep. Wind turbines are ugly and can't be built in scenic areas... but I spent my childhood in the foothills there canoe camping with my parents looking at clearcuts, cutlines, oil and gas installations everywhere. And "oil wells in a farm field with the mountains in the background" is a cliche photo/painting/emblem of Alberta since forever, because y'know, somehow an oil well installation is "nice" but a wind turbine is not.
Somehow natural gas flares and pulp mills are okay set against a scenic mountain valley, but a wind turbine is a blight.
These people are broken in the head.
(I live in Ontario these days, but right now in a hotel in Jasper after a day of spring skiing... it's painful to come back to this province sometimes.)
My neighbour is also from the foothills and lives in Ontario now. One of my favourite people, something about the foothills…
Yeah it’s sad, and that’s an amazing point you make. It’s funny when i hear people complain about carbon tax, particularly from Alberta. You know what cuts the tax? Remove the carbon from the price of a kWh. But no, let’s burn coal and gas and have one of the highest carbon per kWh in the country and just complain instead.
Alberta: 778g / kWh
BC: 38.1g
MB: 25.7g
ON: 49.9
SK is just as bad as Alberta, and the territories but that’s mostly because of where they source their energy due to their remote location, not some political decision.
