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South Lake Tahoe hospitals, fire stations, and emergency services depend on stable power. A 75 percent reduction forces emergency protocols and backup generator reliance.

Ironically, something about this article smells like AI slop to me, be it the sentence above or the “Quick Facts” pane with a totally unnecessary 🔥 in the header, or the random table in the middle, or the overuse of bolding words.

I think producing Ukrainian drone tech in Canada would be an extremely effective and cost-efficient use of defence spending here.

Smith (Premier of Alberta) cribbing Doug Ford’s (fellow Conservative Premier of Ontario) notes when she needs a new wedge issue because her current wedge issues (energy, separatism) aren’t garnering the responses and division the Alberta United Conservative Party needs to stay in power.

In Christianity the sun shining is a metaphor for God’s power and moral righteousness, so why not use it for good instead needing to extract stuff from the ground?

The files are IN the computer!

I checked the data from here in case you’re interested. These are the US intertie flow numbers but they have Alberta numbers that are similar.

• 2021 BC net exported 3.92TWh
• 2022 BC net exported 3.65 TWh
• 2023 BC net imported 9.48 TWh
• 2024 BC net imported 7.57 TWh
• 2025 BC net imported 2.77 TWh
• 2026 Jan to Apr BC net exported 0.48 TWh but importing from AB, and the dry summer months are still ahead of us so we’ll see.
• NB: “net buying” is not the same as “net exporting” even if I think that’s what you meant. The timing and pricing of when our exports are bought and sold mean that BC could make money even if we sold less energy than we bought.

I do worry about the droughts predicted over the next decade, hopefully we can find suitable places to build wind/solar and build there.

I’ll admit I have never thought about it before now.

This is because we bear the cost of oil companies extracting fossil fuels from under our feet, burn it to pollute our air, pollute our water with direct and down-chain products, making us sick and costing taxpayers again. These are called externalities, which in effect becomes a socialized cost and privatized profit. Bankrupt shell companies put the cleanup for their operations on us and the fees Alberta charges to cover end-of-life costs are far too small.

So, a carbon tax is the free-market, economic solution to use price signals to accurately appraise the cost to humanity, which Smith’s government is distorting.

Whatever the quality of her words are, she’s proven herself untrustworthy, passing a direct investment credit barely a week after November’s MoU that would drive down the effective industrial carbon price. My doubts of her government keeping its end of a deal this time is founded on documented past conduct.

Is anyone else in the country seeing their net worth jump 150% since COVID?

Does a net worth going from $100 to $250 count?

Mhm. And despite their pledge to investigate, Microslop fired four of its employees pointing it out to them. https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/microsoft-fires-four-workers-on-site-protests-over-companys-ties-israel-2025-08-29/

He should really be collecting more than $120M in royalties from Republicans using his trademark likeness in naming the Affordable Care Act.

I have a device with Play Services but I’m not going to be installing a stupid app just to read a website.

Not that i expect this to get anywhere, but give it a week or two, she will do something to to undermine it because she needs something to keep the ability to blame the feds for anything that goes wrong in Alberta.

Interesting data but rather disconcerting that Canadians’ and Americans’ cellular devices are being tracked by ad agencies like this.

Sounds like a “Yes, we’d be open to it, but…” to me. I could say the same, however my list of buts would be very long.

Thanks Lebubureau.

As I wrote in another reply, an effective party inspires people to action. Still, a good point.

I’m definitely close with my neighbours, engage in boycots and encourage others to do so, but movement building is more than just me, it involves amassing power of the collective and directing it to projects: that isn’t totally in my skillset at this moment and I presume there are others in a similar situation.

I’m a BCNDP supporter, have volunteered for them, and subscribed to my local riding association’s newsletter, but I’ve not really attached myself to the federal party for reasons I put in my original comment. I’m actively reconsidering it with Avi at the helm.

Great ideas. An effective party inspires people to action for a cause. I think there’s a number of issues we disagree on but I do think that coalition building to effect change is more important in the short term than to make a campaign with flashy but unlikely promises.