Amount my family gets from federal climate action incentive this year: $858
Carbon tax costs on one 58-L tank: $6.38 (I might fill up 12 times in a year, so $76.56)
AB's electricity rebate: $150
AB's fuel tax relief: save $7.54/tank
I'll take the climate action incentive, thanks.
One additional point: there are a LOT of Ukrainian-Canadians in Saskatchewan and Alberta. It would be interesting to see how much both provinces and their economies are making off global oil and fertilizer price increases resulting from Ukraine's suffering.
I'd personally like to see our windfall directed to humanitarian relief for Ukrainians.
Double-confirmed #YQL rumour that Kenney was loudly booed at the #Brier2022 in #Lethbridge when he came up on the jumbotron. #ableg
Small-city prairie curling crowds are not a constituency that conservatives can afford to lose (trust me… I know this works well!)
People have speculated that Team Botcher would be booed because Darren Moulding has Coaldale roots. Turns out it took the premier to bring the boos out.
Alberta's multi-billion $ public investment in KXL takes another step toward a write-off. It leaves me wondering: what role did an erroneous understanding of "indemnification of political risk" play in getting us here? #ableg
There is a logic to public investment to indemnify a project against political risk in some situations: where the government making the investment has some control or influence over that risk.
It serves the same function as a change in law provision in a contract with government: the government accepts the losses of the prospective policy change that creates the risk. The losses are allocated to the party who can best avoid them.
My family's experience with private delivery of joint replacement dates back to 2006. #abhealth [1/13]
Then only 24 years old, my brother underwent a Birmingham hip replacement surgery at the Health Resources Centre, a for-profit surgery clinic converted from the old Grace Hospital in Calgary's Hillhurst community. [2/13]
At the time, it was performing around one-third of such surgeries in Calgary. [3/13]
The @CDNEnergyCentre is more active on Facebook, so you may have missed the outright climate science denialism they spouted recently. #ableg#abpoli (Thread)
The science is very strong on the link between climate change and the increasing frequency and severity of natural disasters. ipcc.ch/site/assets/up…
As we know, so-called "skeptics" have decided to reject the preponderance of scientific evidence in favour of the small minority of voices (typically, with direct ties to industry funding) who support their denialist narrative.
As #ableg conservatives flummox us all with a bizarrely coordinated effort to bring back "Dominion Day", I decided to look into what is causing this confusing hive mind behaviour.
I knew it was the historical name and was changed by Parliament in 1982, the same year as patriation of the constitution. And I had a vague sense that it probably related to a maturing country taking baby steps to shed its homogenous, British colonial identity.
And of course — as with the flag debates of two decades earlier — I vaguely knew there was some political dimension to the issue, as conservatives clung to the vestiges of monarchy in Canada.
If you were going to set out a comprehensive strategy to suppress global investment and energy market interest in Alberta's oil and gas products, this would be your plan. #ableg
1. Weaken pipeline review processes to make the resulting approvals vulnerable to environmental and Indigenous opposition and judicial reversal. edmontonjournal.com/business/energ…
2.a. Overhaul existing GHG standards that are affair across sectors, to implement regulations that give massive emissions subsidies to the most polluting facilities, ... cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…