Whattagame
Active Member
You could have just said that you don't know what any of those terms mean and saved a lot of keystrokes.
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kcantor
Senior Member
^^
“…the people who vote UCP are a minority in terms of the population, they in no way represent the will of the majority just because the party managed to win an election…”
and you know they in no way represent the will of the majority how??? for all you know they represent an even higher percentage of those who didn’t vote than those who did (except those million or so albertans who aren’t eligible to vote, mostly because most of them are way too young to understand the choices).
“…the people who vote UCP are a minority in terms of the population, they in no way represent the will of the majority just because the party managed to win an election…”
and you know they in no way represent the will of the majority how??? for all you know they represent an even higher percentage of those who didn’t vote than those who did (except those million or so albertans who aren’t eligible to vote, mostly because most of them are way too young to understand the choices).
The_Cat
Senior Member
The UCP voters usually show up in full force. Many seats won by the UCP have higher voter turnouts.
ChazYEG
Senior Member
I'll add that there's a substantial amount of immigrants that can't vote either. I don't remember the exact numbers (but I'll find it and post here), but AB has about 500 thousand permanent residents, a vast majority of which are of voting age, but since they're not citizens (for many reasons, the main one is being faced with the choice between forfeiting their home country citizenship for a Canadian one, or remaining as PRs , such as Chinese and Filipinos).
David A
Senior Member
Older, rural voters do turn out more, but future demographics is not favorable to either group.
The_Cat
Senior Member
TAS
Senior Member
Is it any wonder why we're not meeting targets for carbon emissions. I have such little faith in the oil and gas industry leaders and this provincial government. Then again, how much of the public is willing to make any changes.
"The team looked at 3,500 different oil and gas facilities and 5,600 wells.
It concluded official government and industry estimates of methane emissions from Alberta’s oilpatch are 50 per cent too low."
"The team looked at 3,500 different oil and gas facilities and 5,600 wells.
It concluded official government and industry estimates of methane emissions from Alberta’s oilpatch are 50 per cent too low."
northlands
Senior Member
^ my understanding is a lot of methane emissions are from poorly maintained leaky wellsites/plants and it again highlights a major issue within AB: fly by night upstream producers. It’s a common feature in downtown Calgary, previous senior mgmt from the energy majors set up “resource” companies to buy various productive but close to end of their life wells from their friends at the bigger players who don’t want the liability for pennies on the dollar, then proceed to run the leanest possible operations, extract as much value as they can out of those assets, and then go belly up as their wells become unproductive or energy prices sink, leaving us taxpayers with the mess. You can be your *** they are only doing the absolute most bare minimum maintenance to these assets, if any, because there are so many the AER can never keep up.
Farmers really get the short end of the stick. They get stuck with these wells on their properties with virtually no say in the matter, the asset owning companies are typically always late to pay their pittance they owe the landowners, and their trucks (when they do actually come to a wellhead) spread noxious/invasive weeds onto the landowner’s crops. And this is all before the well becomes unproductive or orphaned. No repercussions for this while these upstream companies rake in millions.
Farmers really get the short end of the stick. They get stuck with these wells on their properties with virtually no say in the matter, the asset owning companies are typically always late to pay their pittance they owe the landowners, and their trucks (when they do actually come to a wellhead) spread noxious/invasive weeds onto the landowner’s crops. And this is all before the well becomes unproductive or orphaned. No repercussions for this while these upstream companies rake in millions.
Whattagame
Active Member
It’s okay, though. We’ll get a moratorium on future projects just like we did with renewables. Our government told us that it was due to many of the same issues you mention, so word should be coming down any day now.
Any day…
Gronk!
Senior Member
Alberta invokes sovereignty act, sets groundwork for Crown corporation to be 'generator of last resort'
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith gave oral notice Monday of a resolution to introduce her government's signature sovereignty act.
edmontonjournal.com
I'm going to take a wild guess that this new crown corporation will be headquartered in her beloved Calgary.
David A
Senior Member
The so called conservatives are setting up a new crown corporation, which I suppose will go nicely all their existing agencies, boards and commissions. And at least one less unsuccessful UCP candidate from the last election unemployed, I guess.
So here is a good question for journalists to ask - will this lead to crown corporation taking over our private power utilities? Like say in our neighbouring provinces of Saskatchewan or BC.
While we are at it, how about public auto insurance too? All this would probably give some of their supporters a stroke!
So here is a good question for journalists to ask - will this lead to crown corporation taking over our private power utilities? Like say in our neighbouring provinces of Saskatchewan or BC.
While we are at it, how about public auto insurance too? All this would probably give some of their supporters a stroke!
Kosy123
Senior Member
Comrade Dani out here doing more to promote state owned corporations than the NDP did. We just gotta get the Feds to commit to a Canada wide auto insurance regulation and we'll get it!
MacLac
Senior Member
Wait, an article from the Journal? I thought all of our news sources were coming out of the Herald? .....lolAlberta invokes sovereignty act, sets groundwork for Crown corporation to be 'generator of last resort'
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith gave oral notice Monday of a resolution to introduce her government's signature sovereignty act.
I'm going to take a wild guess that this new crown corporation will be headquartered in her beloved Calgary.
occidentalcapital
Senior Member
Smith often uses the term "capital region" - I don't think she is as anti-Edmonton as you think.
David A
Senior Member
I really don't find the term capital region very complementary at all. I feel it is another way to marginalize this city, first by not naming it and second by implying it is just a government center which you can then dismiss for not voting for them, because well they must generally be left leaning public servants. Third, if you have a business, don't seriously consider being here it is only a "government city" so locate in a real business center city instead.
Another slightly more generous interpretation, is they like to use capital region a lot, because they can at least say they have a few MLA's in the capital region.