The Globe and Mail - Alberta to pause new solar and wind power projects for six months amid review of end-of-life rules: https://archive.ph/34fwm
Alberta announced Thursday morning that it was putting on hold all applications for wind and solar projects that would produce more than one megawatt of power, so it can review where they can be built and how they will affect the province’s power grid. The province also plans to consider rules to guide what happens to these installations when they reach the ends of their lives.
The province’s United Conservative Party government argues that a recent surge in wind and solar projects means policies need updating, but the industry says the move will spook investors, put jobs at risk, create chaos in Alberta’s regulatory environment and undercut economic growth at a time when global investment in clean energy is increasing worldwide.
Calgary Herald official opinion piece, not much different than the "news" article above - "With green energy halt, UCP declares a moratorium on Alberta's reputation": https://archive.is/R7Z3E
https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1687847232496631808
Think of it as a “just transition”. Or “net zero”. Or waiting for “social license”. Or whatever euphemisms the regime media has used to attack oil and gas for years.
Carrie Tait, Reporter in The Globe and Mail's Calgary bureau: https://archive.is/Ue5x8
No, really, Alberta did this.
https://twitter.com/SheilaGunnReid/status/1688225561964101632
Urban pavement dwellers are mad that the concerns of farmers are being acknowledged. These heavily subsidized green energy debacles should at least have the same reclamation requirements that oil sands projects do.
https://twitter.com/wohskraps/status/1688228143658934272
They should just be placed in the city backyards. Let them have what they want. Take their land away & fill it with solar panels.
https://twitter.com/SheilaGunnReid/status/1688229643667828736
And make them live off the energy (or lack of it) produced by their boutique electricity plant.
Run? Probably. Maintain? Probably not.