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 Post subject: Re: The Environment Thread
PostPosted: Fri September 25, 2020 3:57 am 
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Albertans are the worst polluters on the planet!!! Stop Albertan lifestyle!!! Thank goodness other countries, provinces, and states have more dignity than they do - how can you do this to the environment?!!!

Shameless Alberta!!!

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Independent Alberta would be the world’s worst climate polluter

Alberta would overtake Saudi Arabia as the worst climate-polluter on the planet per-person if the province secedes from Canada.

Saudi Arabia currently holds the title for world’s most dangerous nation, regularly ranking dead last in analyses of climate performance.


https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/11/21/analysis/independent-alberta-would-be-worlds-worst-climate-polluter

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PostPosted: Fri September 25, 2020 3:57 am 
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Again, you guys still do pollution better than we do.

But by all means, keep googling.

I knew you spent hours doing it. :)

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 Post subject: Re: The Environment Thread
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great rebuttal!

it really helps to overcome all those articles and facts about how your town is the worst polluter on the planet!

Spoiler: show

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96583UP wrote:

it really helps to overcome all those articles and facts about how your town is the worst polluter on the planet!


Again, you're doing all the heavy work to make yourself look stupid.

My town? You spend hours looking for articles on the oil sands and don't even know where they're at.

Jesus, I'm arguing with a G.E.D.

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It's such a dumb stat they way it is calculated. Any and all carbon or other form of pollution should belong to the end consuming nation.

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Albertans are the worst polluters on the planet!!!

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Independent Alberta would be the world’s worst climate polluter

Alberta would overtake Saudi Arabia as the worst climate-polluter on the planet per-person if the province secedes from Canada.

Saudi Arabia currently holds the title for world’s most dangerous nation, regularly ranking dead last in analyses of climate performance.


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In middle school when we took some trips to Canada, the highways were litter-free. And some of the places we visited were clean too.

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 Post subject: Re: The Environment Thread
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It's such a dumb stat they way it is calculated. Any and all carbon or other form of pollution should belong to the end consuming nation.

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Albertans are the worst polluters on the planet!!!

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Independent Alberta would be the world’s worst climate polluter

Alberta would overtake Saudi Arabia as the worst climate-polluter on the planet per-person if the province secedes from Canada.

Saudi Arabia currently holds the title for world’s most dangerous nation, regularly ranking dead last in analyses of climate performance.




Don't read too much into it. He's reaching pretty hard because he's backed into a corner he can never get out of.

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 Post subject: Re: The Environment Thread
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Interesting move on the distributed grid front:


Mini nuclear reactors with key South Korean parts cleared by US:

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Energy ... ared-by-US




There are much better techs out there, but smaller safe generation could really help speed up coal plant elimination

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"I want to talk about the environment."

"Me too!"

That was a good moment last night.

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 Post subject: Re: The Environment Thread
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Interesting move on the distributed grid front:


Mini nuclear reactors with key South Korean parts cleared by US:

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Energy ... ared-by-US

There are much better techs out there, but smaller safe generation could really help speed up coal plant elimination


Agreed. And nuclear tech has evolved interesting concepts over the years. I saw this earlier this year and has great potential.

Nuclear ‘Power Balls’ May Make Meltdowns a Thing of the Past

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 Post subject: Re: The Environment Thread
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At least 31 have died in the largest wildfires in California history. The east is defending itself against twice the usual number of tropical cyclones. And what may be the highest temperature ever recorded on Earth came in August in the United States. It's a torrid 2020 and it was forecast 32 years ago.

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Stickman wrote:
surfndestroy wrote:
It's such a dumb stat they way it is calculated. Any and all carbon or other form of pollution should belong to the end consuming nation.

96583UP wrote:
Albertans are the worst polluters on the planet!!!

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Independent Alberta would be the world’s worst climate polluter

Alberta would overtake Saudi Arabia as the worst climate-polluter on the planet per-person if the province secedes from Canada.

Saudi Arabia currently holds the title for world’s most dangerous nation, regularly ranking dead last in analyses of climate performance.




Don't read too much into it. He's reaching pretty hard because he's backed into a corner he can never get out of.


you are bashing the US for being a polluter, and you are from Calgary :idea:

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 Post subject: Re: The Environment Thread
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David Attenborough's A Life On Our Planet leaves viewers in tears 

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 Post subject: Re: The Environment Thread
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Heckuva Job, Brownie!

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/16/92449729 ... ldfire-aid

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The White House has rejected a California request for federal disaster relief to help it recover from wildfires that have burned through nearly 3,000 square miles in the state, killing at least three people and destroying nearly 1,000 homes.

In a statement from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, press secretary Lizzie Litzow said that damage assessments conducted by the agency had determined the fires last month "were not of such severity and magnitude to exceed the combined capabilities of the state, affected local governments, voluntary agencies and other responding federal agencies."

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I blame Trump/America

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These Zombies Threaten the Whole Planet

Canada’s oil patch has nearly 100,000 suspended wells, neither active nor capped, and they’re a worrying source of planet-warming methane.


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/climate/oil-wells-leak-canada.html

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That was pretty good. I had to laugh that the plastic bags were made from coal energy rather than something with fewer greenhouse emissions. It also didn't include the environmental cost of cleaning reusable bags nor giving plastic bags recycled to be used for garbage an additional credit for removing denser plastic bags from being used.

I would like to see much of environmental lifecycle accounting on products. Have national/international standards and be displayed on item packaging.

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One big grocer here uses compostable bags for customers to pack their items into. So smart.

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Not awesome. I wish Albertans and Australians had respect for the environment

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As oil prices languish, Alberta sees its future in a 'coal rush'
At least six new or expanded mines could be built as a new conservative provincial government aims to increase coal production for export

With the price of Western Canadian oil languishing around $35 a barrel and Canadian oil sands companies hemorrhaging both workers and money, the province of Alberta sees its future in another fossil fuel: coal.

A “coal rush” in the province could see at least six new or expanded open-pit coal mines built up and down the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, mostly by Australian companies. Together, these projects could industrialize as much as 1,000 sq km of forests, waterways and grasslands, an area the size of Vancouver Island.


https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/15/alberta-canada-coal-rush-mining-exports

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