Alberta NDP Polling at 100%

[OTown]

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/don-...-now-1.5650802

"Canada’s oil emissions problem isn’t domestic production as much as internal combustion.

If we could reduce emissions to zero by shutting down the oilsands, 80 per cent of Canada’s emissions would still be belched out by burning imported oil in cars and trucks. The only tangible result would be the loss of almost half a million direct or indirect Canadian jobs and about $10 billion in government revenue." [...]

"So we’re left with a Trudeau attack on domestic oil that is counterbalanced by an equal and opposite benefit for foreign oil exporters like Saudi Arabia." [...]

"Trudeau surely knows it’s pointless in the grand global scheme of things to block the tailpipe of a Canadian economic engine like the oilsands, which generates 0.1 of global emissions, when China belches out more greenhouse gases than the rest of the developed world combined and doesn’t even show up for the COP 26 conference."

[killramos]

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Don’t blame ya haha.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elective_surgery

If he or she wasn’t in immediate need, it was cancelled. Not sure if they cancelled all electives or not tho.

Cancer treatment isn’t really surgery, and I think all that came from the risks of exposing severely immune compromised people (cancer patients) to crowded treatment facilities (which have all had outbreaks of some kind over the last year) being deemed a greater risk than forgoing treatments. At least those are the conversations I have had with people I know who were in that situation.

Not a great situation, but one essentially no amount of excess healthcare capacity would solve.

[killramos]

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https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/don-...-now-1.5650802

Shhhh. Everyone knows canadas environmental record is entirely Alberta’s fault, and has nothing to do with us living in an enormous sparsely population arctic territory who’s only real industrial sector has always been resource extraction of some kind or another.

[LilDrunkenSmurf]

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Fwiw, I know one person who's cancer treatment was postponed. I'd say that's reasonably serious, and not going as planned.

My stepdad's pacemaker has been postponed for 18 months. He's experienced issues with low blood pressure because of it, and passed out and smashed his head. They're trying to get it moved up.

[rage2]

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https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/don-...-now-1.5650802

Is that really true though? Ontario has 3.5x our population (I’d assume roughly the same for vehicles) but Alberta emissions are way higher than Ontario.

https://www.canada.ca/en/environment...emissions.html

Don’t have the time to drill down into what’s being used in the calculations. I do know BC forest fires, for example, isn’t included in this and is a significant contributor.

[davidI]

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Is that really true though? Ontario has 3.5x our population (I’d assume roughly the same for vehicles) but Alberta emissions are way higher than Ontario.

https://www.canada.ca/en/environment...emissions.html

Don’t have the time to drill down into what’s being used in the calculations. I do know BC forest fires, for example, isn’t included in this and is a significant contributor.

Exporting 2.5MM boed means burning 500k boed if the 80% of emissions coming from combustion calculation is true. Of course, if Alberta doesn't produce 2.5MM boed, someone else will (while true their production emissions may only amount to 10% of total GHG instead of 20%, if they spend the money and use the energy on wars, building skyscrapers and malls that require air conditioning and desalinated water plants, it's hard to see the full-cycle savings.

Beyond forest fires, which most would argue are part of natural environmental cycles - hydroelectric dams actually cause large releases of methane as all of the flooded biomass degrades.

I'm not sure why Canada doesn't just adopt Euro 6 style vehicle emission standards. The technology already exists... and it might incentivize more efficient vehicle sales in the US/Mexico as well.

[ExtraSlow]

Every drop of oil produced in Alberta lowers global emissions. Canadian LNG exports are probably the single largest positive impact Canada could have on global CO2 emissions.
But it's not about that. It's never been about that.

[killramos]

Canada doesn’t incent the us to do anything. It works the other way around.

Our market is a rounding error on the world stage, a 51st state to most international auto makers.

[Buster]

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Every drop of oil produced in Alberta lowers global emissions. Canadian LNG exports are probably the single largest positive impact Canada could have on global CO2 emissions.
But it's not about that. It's never been about that.

It's almost like we need an out of the box political solution to the problem...

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I was citing this on BC. Stumbled on it last year.

https://sierraclub.bc.ca/wp-content/...ort-Jan-19.pdf

So basically we dunno how to hide our emissions better? Haha

[kenny]

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The only medical system delay was surgeries. Had friends go to emergency during the absolute peak and was just fine. One had a heart condition and spent a week in hospital. Another with a broken arm. Visiting was a PITA but that's always been the case with the 2 people rule. I mean it's anecdotal but yea the fear was hilariously real. Always found the you ain't getting emergency care narrative funny. AHS seems to have scaled up as needed and was perfectly fine. Don't think they ever went into Triage.

I think the big thing here is that people don't understand that Emergency Dept is not the same as ICU.

They didn't need to scale up Emergency dept because people were staying away from hospitals during the height of Covid and were going to urgent care centres (where they're supposed to go).

[Xtrema]

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Every drop of oil produced in Alberta lowers global emissions. Canadian LNG exports are probably the single largest positive impact Canada could have on global CO2 emissions.
But it's not about that. It's never been about that.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/...ect-countries/

China's emission won't slow down. India is coming up next. The 2 countries alone probably will cause 60-70% of the world's emission in very short time.

We are paying for something that no one else in the world is willing to, especially the 2 most populist countries . China won't be onboard because we already see the social shit show they ran into when a few coal mines got flooded out. In the end, our emission won't matter in the whole scheme of things.

We may become a leader in green tech but as we all know for the last 2 decade, IP means nothing and you can't really profit off it. China will just steal it or reverse engineer it and muscle you out of the biz.

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Let’s just get rid of cows.

[Buster]

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https://www.statista.com/statistics/...ect-countries/

China's emission won't slow down. India is coming up next. The 2 countries alone probably will cause 60-70% of the world's emission in very short time.

We are paying for something that no one else in the world is willing to, especially the 2 most populist countries . China won't be onboard because we already see the social shit show they ran into when a few coal mines got flooded out. In the end, our emission won't matter in the whole scheme of things.

We may become a leader in green tech but as we all know for the last 2 decade, IP means nothing and you can't really profit off it. China will just steal it or reverse engineer it and muscle you out of the biz.

Canadians are ritards with delusions of grandeur.

[kenny]

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Let’s just get rid of cows.

At the provincial level, Alberta is leading the total number of slaughtered cattle with 67% of the entire beef market. Ontario is Canada's second largest beef producer with 20% of total slaughters and Quebec is third with 12%.

Yep, this cut is approved.

[ThePenIsMightier]

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At the provincial level, Alberta is leading the total number of slaughtered cattle with 67% of the entire beef market. Ontario is Canada's second largest beef producer with 20% of total slaughters and Quebec is third with 12%.

Yep, this cut is approved.

But if we're killing them, aren't we global pioneers in the reduction of them carbons??

[Tik-Tok]

Can't we send them to Residential Bovine University and teach them the ways of the modern virtue signaling world and to forget their methane emission culture?

[redline]

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Let’s just get rid of cows.

fuck that... you communist

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Can't we send them to Residential Bovine University and teach them the ways of the modern virtue signaling world and to forget their methane emission culture?

apparently feeding them sushi reduces the methane ...

[ThePenIsMightier]

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Can't we send them to Residential Bovine University and teach them the ways of the modern virtue signaling world and to forget their methane emission culture?

^Wins internet for 2021^

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[finboy]

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Canadians are ritards with delusions of grandeur.

I always thought of it as more of an inferiority complex about our neighbours being the most powerful country in the world and not being able to measure up in basically any way (aside from average citizen weight). General reaction I get from many Canadians when a comparison is drawn is “well at least we aren’t Americans” like their response doesn’t drip with self consciousness