🧵Alberta & Canadian taxpayer dollars earmarked for CCS or "blue" hydrogen production need to cease IMMEDIATELY.

The Pathways Alliance's move to scrub their sites before "anti-greenwashing" rule enforcement, is a very telling action.
#abpoli #ableg
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thelogic.co/news/oil-sands… "The law exposes companies to legal action should they make claims about the environmental benefits of any of their activities or technologies 'that [are] not based on an adequate and proper test' or 'the proof of which lies on the person making the representation.'"
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Ok, IMMA weigh-in on this gaslighting, pun intended,⛽️conversation on Alberta's future hydrogen economy. 🧵
1⃣ 10:00 we basically "crack" natural gas apart to hydrogen.
✖️no mention of water
✅a process that uses MORE energy than using natural gas alone.

https://x.com/RealTalkRJ/status/1776346687952527773

2⃣ "We sequester the carbon dioxide and provide hydrogen to whoever needs it"
✖️First of all, we DO NOT sequester much CO2 at all.
✅CCS, ANOTHER process that uses MORE energy and MORE water than using natural gas alone.

Wowza, some incredible collaborative work by @blair_fix and @RKBtoo to expose the amount of editing on @mikedesouza’s @PostmediaNews environmental reporting carried out by the @calgaryherald relative to @edmontonjournal and the @OttawaCitizen
#AbPoli
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economicsfromthetopdown.com/2023/12/22/mas… Left to right: Original, Ottawa Citizen, Edmonton Journal, and Calgary Herald
Fig 2: articles published 20, 14, 12, 11
Figure 3: word count 13,000, 5,300, 4,800, 4,300
Fig 4: page # 1-7, 1-17, 4-45
😂 so the @calgaryherald reports the least, demotes, with the fewest words
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Great webinar on the privatization of health care in Canada. The important distinctions between private pay and delivery, for-profit and non-profit. The Cambie trial in BC is an important ruling that upheld the Health Canada Act against private pay. 1/
Virtual care and travel across jurisdictions triggering private pay or annual payments to access primary care need to be addressed. 2/

In support of @TheRealDKGray's Alberta electricity market issue, here's what I've learned from Sheldon Fulton (an energy market consultant living in Calgary who has had an active role in the evolution of Alberta’s power market since 1996). 🧵1/ Remember: the UCP “Alberta Affordability Action Plan” included a price cap and deferral for individual homes on the variable regulated rate (RRO) option in cents/kWh. If you’re on a fixed contract, this program has not impacted you. 2/

In November 2019, the @Alberta_UCP canceled the Alberta Provincial Rapattack program without any consultation with the program coordinator or its senior members. My husband, @CYeremiy worked for Rapattack from 1994-2003. 1/ On Nov 5, Chris issued an email to the Agriculture and Forestry Minister, @DevinDVote explaining his concerns about the cancellation of the program. And forwarded the email to @demetriosnAB, @jkenney, and @shoffmanAB. Both @demetriosnAB and @shoffmanAB responded. 2/

Good Morning @AdrianaLaGrange and @neudorf_ab, in the month of April did you bypass the process for converting schools from public to charter in Edmonton and Calgary? 1/ @CBCNews @CTVNews @TheBreakdownAB @GlobalEdmonton @edmontonjournal @GlobalCalgary Was St. Patrick's School in Edmonton converted from a public school to a charter school in the month of April 2023 without analysis & review, without accommodation planning, and without anyone in the Department of Infrastructure's approval aside from @neudorf_ab? 2/

This is a great article, supportive of it.

What's missing though is the coordinated effort across industries requires an analysis of the impact on air, water, land, life and the resources required (life-cycle). 1/ #AbLeg #AbPoli calgaryherald.com/opinion/column… In other words economics across industries. We need to aim to sustain our resources and a net profitable position. The gov and regulator have important roles to layout the goals and regulations, respectively. 2/

From January to October of 2022, the @AER_news and @AlbertaEnviron1 carried out a review of the Mine Financial Security Program (MFSP). MFSP is the AER tool used to collect security in order to cover oilsands mine liabilities. 1/
alberta.ca/assets/documen… The 2022 review stems from a 2015 Office of the Auditor General’s (OAG) report on the MFSP, concluding: improvements to “the design and operation of the MFSP… are needed to both how security is calculated and how security amounts are monitored.”2/ oag.ab.ca/wp-content/upl…

Speaking in opposition to the UCP proposal to give incentives to oil and gas companies that would allow them to avoid their legal obligation to pay for their own cleanup costs. We can’t let corporations off the $260+ billion hook! #ChooseAlbertansNotRStar #ABPoli #ABLeg The “precedent setting” Bistcho Lake and Cold Lake Sub-Regional Plans offer an ALL INCLUSIVE approach to land management in Alberta. It aims for transparency and collaboration between stakeholders and industries to restore Alberta while continuing to develop. 2/