It is easy for Liberal Leader Mark Carney to promise that under his leadership Canada will become an energy superpower when he doesn’t have to provide any details of how this will happen. The devil is in the details. Read More
It is easy for Liberal Leader Mark Carney to promise that under his leadership Canada will become an energy superpower when he doesn’t have to provide any details of how this will happen. The devil is in the details. Carney promises to promote conventional oil and gas, but only if it is lower carbon. Easy
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It is easy for Liberal Leader Mark Carney to promise that under his leadership Canada will become an energy superpower when he doesn’t have to provide any details of how this will happen. The devil is in the details.
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Carney promises to promote conventional oil and gas, but only if it is lower carbon. Easy to say, but the economic and technical viability of carbon capture and storage are being questioned. He promises to promote the development of clean energy, but has he considered all the limitations of solar and wind power? Does he have a plan for nuclear power?
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A major part of clean energy is the use of electric vehicles. The transition to them has been much more difficult than what many expected and EV sales have been dropping. Many problems remain with availability of materials for batteries.
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Carney simply does not understand (or ignores) the issues that will slow down the transition to clean energy. Canada will be stuck with conventional energy longer than he assumes, even though it will not be as clean as he wants it to be.
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After the election, this will certainly be an issue.
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Peter Mannistu, Calgary
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Take Trump at his word
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I believe that Chris Nelson missed the mark in his latest opinion column.
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While the jokes that Trump made can be ignored or treated as light banter, he didn’t stop there. Blaming the Liberals for stoking all of the additional anti-Canada rhetoric to improve voter support ignores such comments as: “We’ll take over Canada by economic force”; “We don’t need their cars, oil or lumber,”; “Canada has been ripping off the U.S. for decades,”; etc.
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Canadians are rightly voicing their anger at these comments. And the Liberal party has tapped into this sentiment.
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Using another political entity as a bogeyman to mobilize voters or help cover one’s own mistakes is pretty common. Various Alberta leaders have elevated this practice to an art form.
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To blame all of the ongoing rhetoric on a party that you don’t happen to support is disingenuous. But worse is the fact that by blaming everything on the Liberal leader, you have given the orange-haired child a free pass for all of his ignorant and inflammatory comments about this country.
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Ken Bax, Airdrie
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A testament to immigrants
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Re: The winding path to find home in Calgary, April 5
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What a well-written column, and what a testament to the importance of immigrants to Calgary, Alberta and Canada.
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My family were immigrants here themselves in 1914.
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Robert Mitchell, Calgary
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