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Without government subsidies there would be no wind or solar power in Canada. They cannot survive without heavy subsidies. Unlike the oil industry.

It’s continued extortionate scam and hustle, driving away investment that would lift many communities. This is the real story: Fringe Green Fascists hijack Indigenous democratic decision-making and shut down economic opportunities. A small minority of uninformed and manipulated elderly are empowered by this fringe to lean on their hereditary authority to bring down the interests of the impacted communities and the will of the majority of Indigenous.

Fiddling with methane leaks while the world burns ... ya, no. There isn't time. There are better choices. You contradict yourself, because supporting one faction against another is a colonialist divide and conquer strategy, and you definitely do "presume to tell indigenous people what is best for them." Indigenous communities will decide for themselves, in their own way. CGL's bribes are hard to turn down in intentionally impoverished communities, but the ancient pull of solidarity and cultural continuity among their people is very strong too. It remains to be seen. 'Elected' Band Council members all belong to a Clan too, so all have input through the traditional governance model too. I think it is very likely that a united nation will emerge behind the hereditary Chiefs in the current (overdue) Federal government task of clarifying Wet'suet'en rights and title. Then we'll see what they collectively decide about the pipeline. An alternate route avoiding ecologically and culturally sensitive areas may still provide the necessary way forward.

Natural gas is substantially cleaner that burning coal or oil. Just switching coal burning power generation to natural gas would slash greenhouse gasses significantly. You can’t provide that amount of reliable power with renewables unless your patch of Earth is blessed with multiple watercourses and changes in elevation. Government are the leaders that voters decide should lead, nothing more nor less.

seriously, with all of Trumps failings.... it appears that his man/baby fear that anything that goes wrong in the US is some kind of blemish on his reputation may be the most offensive to even his supporters. nobody is about to blame Trump for the Coronovirus. its not his fault that its happening. but it would appear that his ultra thin skin and fragile ego can't allow him to even comprehend or mentally accept that the US is on the verge of an un-contained epidemic that will kill hundreds of thousands. all he can comprehend is his usual tactic of telling people "there is no problem" or making it some kind of liberal conspiracy. except that it doesn't work in this situation. and his delay to even consider the issue because "its just the flu" is about to cost thousands of lives. Trump calls Inslee a 'snake' over criticism of coronavirus rhetoric Trump rallies his base to treat coronavirus as a ‘hoax’

Not sure where this belongs so I'm putting it here. It does talk about how serial monogomy has led to fewer marriages and children and thus loneliness so I think this is a decent fit. I've encountered a couple of stories in the last two days about loneliness, which seems to be a product of our changing society. It's especially bad among the young, many of whom have no friends whatsoever. But it's widespread among the elderly too, whose friends have died and who never had children. This is a western thing. We've all, I think, become fixated with consumerism and careers (the better to get ahead so we can buy more). We've all moved much of out lives online, which can be entertaining but does little to satisfy a need for human contact. The breakdown of families, with many having no kids or just one, means many people are now growing up without siblings, without uncles and aunts, and because of the way society has moved online, without friends. Humans are tribal, and familial. Without any tribe or clan or family a lot of us are lost and adrift. I read somewhere that 25 of the 26 largest mass shooters had no fathers in their lives. I'm not surprised. The breakdown of families has done nothing good for society. In August of 2003, a dreadful heat wave washed across Europe. Some 35,000 people died; most of them fit the above profile. A disproportion of the deaths — 14,000 —occurred in France, prompting investigation, which revealed the uncomfortable fact that it was not material poverty that was the key factor in many of these deaths. Rather it was a form of social poverty; the victims had nobody who cared enough about them to check up on them and alleviate their distress. This new form of social poverty is, paradoxically, most evident in the world’s richest nations. A May 2018 Cigna poll cited by the author found that nearly half of all Americans report “sometimes or always” feeling alone, and that Generation Z — adults aged 18 to 22 — is the loneliest generation of all. Loneliness is sad in itself, but it also has public health implications. Eberstadt cites studies showing a causal link between loneliness and overeating, higher stress levels, cardiovascular conditions and immune dysfunction https://nationalpost.com/opinion/barbara-kay-loneliness-is-a-human-catastrophe-and-its-getting-worse 31% of millenials and 28% of GenXers have no friends. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-05/22-millennials-say-they-have-no-friends

I personal don't really give a rats ass about BC, I mean if you take a look at the damage the tree huggers have done to their own economy there it becomes very clear to the rest of the nation we do not want your Poison to spread beyond your borders, nor do we want one province to dictate to the rest of the country what they can and can not do... Here we go again "You People" speech. The Left has already wrapped getting our resources to market under a thick coat of regulation , and dipped it all in accountability to the point where elected band councils do not have any more authority than the cleaner at MacDonald's. Now some appointed persons under some other term, " which have forced the women in their group to resign their positions well because it is 2015 baby"..... well they call the shots now, want to talk about accountability, where is the millions of dollars already given to these bands, money given to them as a sign of good faith....money given to the wrong group I guess.... Accountability indeed.... where is the accountability for the new jobs, that are going to be sunk, where is the accountability of new standard of living for not only first nations but the rest of the province....there is now...because both sides of this issue are unwilling to meet in the middle....and each one will not stop until one side is destroyed.... You hide all this under the banner of climate change, we need to commit economical suicide in order to meet our goals, and do our part.....But you have yet to wrap your head around this fact....the world is not ready to commit to all the changes needed to make a difference in climate change....and they won't until it is to late...that has got nothing to do with accountability or being on the right or left....it has got to do with the lack of leadership . lack of will, lack of drive, not just here in Canada , but across most of the globe... You can scream or march, or protest all you want, until there is a magical solution to the climate change that will allow countries to remain prosperous, then your stuck with knowing it is not going to happen, you can have millions of scientists lay it all out in crayon, but the world is not ready to make those sacrifices...

If they had the support of the people , then there should be no water/ housing problems on northern reserves. And of all the footage released by the media todate, not many citizens stopped and gave praise or support, most were angry at the blockaders. If you want the government do act , first you must have the support of the people, ask Vets how they are doing in their quest to get equal treatment....just because you have a few white environments in the crowd does not mean they support the first nations cause nor does it mean the rest of Canada gives a shit, I mean the answer is right there in your face, why else do they have to protest ?.

We are not going to replace fossil fuels with wind and solar. Period. It cannot work. If more environmentalists, like this guy, actually studied the numbers, that would be come patently obvious.

Not true. We spend 10’s of billions on health, education, services and infrastructure on reserves, and collect very little tax revenue in return. That’s the fundamental fact that makes true self- determination impossible. Most reserves aren’t self-sustaining, and they never will be without resource development, which is why Jacee’s brand of radical green activism is so detrimental to Indigenous.

So the creation of numerous race based Bantustans with hereditary succession (kings) that Canada pays for?

No, the assertion is simply unproven, one need only cite evidence if one cares to prove something. I didn't say you were a Liberal, but the Liberals discredited your agenda to the point that Ontario actually elected Doug Ford, nuff said

We know you’re at the green radical end of NDP

Obviously she cares not a whit for anyone but herself........a real Marie Antoinette but instead of 'let them eat cake' with her it's 'let them freeze, I'm just fine. Ah the humanity.

Environmental Defence Canada is a well known propaganda shop funded by the infamous American Tides Foundation in cahoots with the thugs at Unifor. Environmental group still being investigated by Revenue Canada Next month marks five years that Environmental Defence has been under audit for its political activities Protester in Vanvouver opposing the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project. Environmental Defence, a Toronto charity that also opposes Kinder Morgan, remains under threat by the Canada Revenue Agency. A small environmental group opposed to Liberal pipeline policies is still under threat by the Canada Revenue Agency – almost five years after getting into trouble with the taxman for opposing Conservative pipeline policies. The tax agency has notified Environmental Defence Canada Inc. in writing that it plans to revoke its charitable status because the group is too political — a contravention of current rules for charities. So far the Toronto charity's appeal of that decision has not been successful, even after spending up to $500,000 in legal and other fees to deal with a political-activity audit that begin in early 2012.

The upside is that the leftists are bankrupting their own bloated welfare states and it is clear they won't be able to tax their way out of it, so ultimately this will result in less public sector unionized employees as the governments of the future are swamped by the Green Debt, so it all works out for the right in the long run.

I read and support all your posts C2015.

What the Green Plan in Ontario has done is subsidize with what are called Feed-in-Tariffs, which is paid for with a tax they call the Global Adjustment This tax was so unpopular the Greentards have had to try to hide it from the rate payers by taking it off the books Really Ontario is going to be paying rates vastly above market prices for decades to come, so Ontario will never make the money back, it really is a disaster.

You’re so clueless it’s laughable. You couldn’t set up a profitable green energy supply if your life depended on it. Keep trying to Google your way to success. I’m a small energy producer in the green economy and speak from experience. Put your money where your mouth is and talk to me in 20 years.

I'm asking what YOU have to replace it with and the answer is NOTHING. Can't heat with nothing. So...we need natural gas is what you're saying. Well, let's go get some.

And you trust the Chinese Communist Party, do you?

I’m extremely interested in technology to transmit electricity through sound waves. Wireless electricity transmission. A California company is working on it. It would literally end the combustion economy and, with our own portable power receptacles, we could become superhuman. I’m writing a sci-fi book about it.

That switch is much harder than you think for many reasons. It’s not just about inconsistent supply and storage (capacitor/battery), nor is it about building the infrastructure, it’s about the sheer megawatt volume required to power our economy, including electric vehicles. Tesla-type roofs and batteries, if properly added to the building code and incentivized through retrofit tax breaks/subsidies could really help, but that will take time. The environmental toll taken in battery production is another issue. The chemical extraction for those batteries is problematic. Nuclear is a relatively clean non-renewable power source, but it is expensive to build and maintain. Canada does have a big uranium supply.

It's -20 C this morning. What do you propose to do about that besides having warm thoughts again?

“If that much gets away into the atmosphere” ”If” is the keyword. The new regulations brought in by Canada as of January, 2020 should prevent this problem. Read the article about this on the International Energy Agency website you cited. Here is a passage: ”In addition, upstream facilities that produce or receive at least 60,000 standard m3(around 45 metric tonnes) of natural gas each year must inspect particular components three times a year for leaks, using a portable monitoring or optical gas-imaging instrument. Operators must repair actionable leaks within 30 days or during the next planned shutdown. Offshore facilities must monitor leaks in real-time with a gas detection system.” Just because problems may emerge doesn’t mean they can’t be solved. You don’t shut down an important component of our economy because of fixable problems.

Back in 2016 a lot of people wondered how Trump would deal with any kind of world crisis. I guess this is how they find out.

GHG's that are up to 25 times more potent.

Natural gas produces half the greenhouse gasses of coal. Period.

Americans don't trust government to solve all their problems...it is not like it is in Canada. Trumpers know the damn govmint usually hoses things up anyway. Just need canned food, water, toilet paper, and ammunition !

Canada would be even safer if travel was curtailed to hot zones like Iran and Italy in addition to China. We just got the first confirmed COVID-19 case from another cruise ship. I do not understand why people keep flocking to those massive floating "petri dishes" (cruise ships).

Some authoritarian sentiment when you go far enough... It sure doesn't look like it took you long to get there when you started calling for the scoop-trucks on day one or two when it came to blockades. There's a good reason why people refer to the term reactionary when describing right-wing conservatives. What's really funny is listening to you people going on about how out of control and compulsive left wingers are.

You haven't said a word about methane. Why is that? You don't believe it, don't care, don't know what? Whatever it is why do I get the sense you'll happily spend the next 30 years denying it quibbling over it prevaricating about it and of course leaking, flaring and ignoring it?

You are wrong about gas. This is recent information. Google it. It's leaking, not burning that is the problem. The tide is turning against gas. I don't presume to tell Indigenous people what is best for them. That's a very patronizing and authoritarian manner. A lot of evil has been done that way. I support Indigenous concerns and actions because our governments are the problem.

Natural gas is a fossil fuel, though theglobal warming emissions from its combustion are much lower than those from coal or oil. Natural gas emits 50 to 60 percent less carbon dioxide (CO2) when combusted in a new, efficient natural gas power plant compared with emissions from a typical new coal plant. It’s not just about greenhouse gasses. Coal includes nitrous oxides and additional toxins that have negative respiratory effects.

Grow up. Natural gas is much cleaner than coal. One paragraph referencing leaks doesn’t replace 1000’s of well documented articles. Go back to school. Stop pretending to speak for Indigenous. You’re their grim reeper, keeping them poor under your favoured reserve apartheid with no resource development jobs.

Trudeau Senior had a different Canada in mind. We should be proud of the English, French, and Indigenous histories, recognizing the constitutional protections of the founding cultures. Multiculturalism is supplemental to this, not a replacement. We need to stop privileging diversity. That’s the equity scam. It should be about equality, not trying to assess how much access and money someone deserves based on their level of historic victimhood, at least with regard to past generations who are no longer alive.

The stupid thing that Trudeau did was to call Canada a "post national state". Who the hell ever told this buffoon that he could go over the heads of the taxpayer's of Canada and call Canada a PNS country? Our politicians appear to have this air of arrogance about them where they have always been allowed to treat the taxpayer's of this country with contempt and have acted like the taxpayer's of the country know nothing and they are nothing more than a a bunch of stupid infants that must be told what to do and how this country will run and no one dare question their stupid and silly programs or motives. The PNS is stupid and silly. But then again, that is what Canada has become today. A post national stupid and silly state. Those pipeline protester terrorists are proving that alright. Our politicians appear to not know what to do when they see anarchy happening right in front of their silly and stupid faces. What else can anyone say about Canada except that it has truly become stupid and silly. Just my opinion of course.

The Post National State is not so much stupid as it is silly It's not a question of intellect, "Canada" has simply become infantilizing

I have decided to commemorate the slide into alt right chaos by declaring myself a conservative. I care about the environment, taking care of people as Jesus taught, and good morals.

I’m all for sensible policies that fight climate change whilst serving other purposes, such as helping us cut commute times, move people and goods more efficiently, create energy efficient complete communities where workplaces, retail, nature, and agriculture are available locally to residents in vibrant walkable streets. We want a more productive economy and a higher quality of life. Changing building codes to incorporate green energy will cut energy usage and create greater energy security. Natural gas will still play an important role, however, because it’s abundant and relatively clean. Coal should be phased out. As electric vehicles become cheaper, battery ranges increase, and clean forms of energy production (to charge those batteries) become more widespread, the demand for oil will decrease somewhat, but that supply is finite anyway. Nuclear will have to be part of the mix. The most advanced green economies can’t currently get to 50% of energy production through green renewable energy without vast available waterways for hydro, and such projects still take an environmental toll, given the masses of concrete and forest/flora clearance. Wind and sun are inconsistent and we don’t have the capacitor tech to store all the energy we don’t use when the sun and wind are full bore. As we transition, let’s use pipelines instead of dirtier and more dangerous rail and trucks. Let’s create economic opportunities through high tech resource development in the hinterland and for Indigenous. That’s Canada’s bread and butter. Use some of the revenue to build the green economy of the future.

Canada is a bit player in the climate change fight. We will pay a huge economic price for fighting it on our own, and we won’t get results. Climate has no borders. Without the superpowers on the task, especially the US and China, the structure of the economy won’t fundamentally change. The current US administration won’t sign onto the Paris Accord because China faces much more lenient targets under the pact. Already the US can’t compete on labour costs. The country doesn’t want to have to take on added regulation and taxation costs. I want those superpowers to sign onto the same targets, and for all countries to sign onto reducing emissions, so that industry regulations require the same compliance and Canada is playing on a level playing field with similar climate policy. This farce of radical activists shutting down cleaner energy distribution such as pipelines, and killing relatively clean energy options like natural gas, will delay real greenhouse gas emissions reductions and eliminate job opportunities for the country’s most vulnerable, including the Indigenous. Without tax revenue from business there simply won’t be jobs, social programs, or self-sustainability on poorer reserves.

Lol Dougie have you ever stayed on topic, not that I care..I love your energy on talking about everything. Go for it.

One of my favorite songs, Canadian Railroad Trilogy, I believe was written for this show:

People are lonely because we have no common mold like before where individuals had a predeterminated role in society. It also is because we do not depend on others like before.

I think I'm out of the norm here, but I do have two friends outside my immediate family, who I only see a few times a year even though we live less than 30 minutes apart. I find it difficult to maintain friendships because I am, by nature, a loner. Even with my immediate family, we communicate rather sporadically, sometimes not talking for weeks or months. I have been with partners who were very social and it was fine, but I wasn't any happier having a busy social life than a virtually non-existent one. I enjoyed being single, having my life to myself as much as I enjoy having a partner. I fill most of my "social" needs through work, and perhaps if that were missing I'd find more desire for friends outside my partner and family. Perhaps if I were widowed and not working, I'd experience being alone differently. Its not that I've never felt lonely, but it's been very transient and occurred not just when I've been completely bereft of friends and single, but also during the most "connected" times of my life. Sometimes I think media portrayal friendships is misleading and raises unrealistic expectations. I've yet to find an article that addresses what I feel is my natural inclination; instead I'm expected to die younger and be less healthy mentally and physically, even though I find trying to maintain friendships somewhat more stressful and tiring than being alone. I know I'm not the only person who feels this way, but it's like we're invisible to experts who are concerned with human social habits. I recently came across a post by a young guy who planned a trip, but had no friends to travel with so his sister shamed him about traveling alone to the point he looked to the internet for validation of his comfort level with being alone. That's kind of sad, imo. Why can't his preferences be accepted as normal?

Today young people are brought up in the world of the internet, and many think of it as some kind of blessed oracle. Just ask a question of the Googler, he will tell you everything. In fact, much more than you want to know. And yet I learned so much more in my childhood than my kids did. My kids didn't go outside as much as I did. They didn't go skating. They didn't hang out and play tag all day with other kids. They don't know how to tie a fishing knot, nor will they likely ever need to. Their main portal to reality is the web browser, and for that I pity them. We unleashed the internet, a total revolution without considering the social impact it would have on us. We need to put the genie back in the bottle.

Seriously doubt that has any truth to it. I remember reading somewhere that people pretty much make all the friends they're going to by 30. After that, it's very hard to make friends because everyone is busy in their lives, and most jobs don't have enough continuing social interaction with people to form tight bonds. You have to make a deliberate effort to try to go out to something regularly, like joining a sports team, say, in the hopes that you meet someone there to become a friend. Plus there are shy people, people who spent all their time playing video games and online as children (not allowed out alone), and never developed the social skills to make friends.

That's precisely ... nonsense: You've made that up. Where's your linky proof? Lol https://environmentaldefence.ca/2019/06/06/cleaner-cheaper-growing-renewables-ready-canadian-policy-isnt/ We’ve seen that recently in Alberta. Over the last 18 months, renewable energy companies signed contracts to feed green power to the grid that will be cheaper than natural gas plants. Despite common perceptions, those low costs are possible without subsidies. In fact, it is fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas that get the bulk of government handouts. Renewable energy, already cheaper, becomes more profitable than fossil fuel energy when we switch just 30% of fossil fuel subsidies to renewable energy, level the playing field, free the energy market: Investment money goes where the profits are ... and the green shift is done! It's really very simple. We just have to break the fossil fuel industry's dependency on massive public welfare. They can sink or swim without our money.

Gas is not cleaner than coal. (See above, google 'methane leaks', etc) Stop your pretense of speaking for Indigenous people. You speak nonsense. It's extremely offensive.