โprivate schools receive about $5,213 in per pupil grants from Alberta EducationโฆSo each time a student is enrolled in a private school instead of a public school, $5,000 in funding is redirected from the public school to the private schoolโ
#AbElx2023
"If this extreme level of dryness continue, the situation is going to impact all of Alberta. It is a societal issue, not an environmental issue"
#ableg
#cdnpoli
โPremier responds to Globe and Mail report that province directed AHS to remove COVID, flu references in ads
Former chief medical officer of health says it's 'not just outrageous, it's idiotic' ๐ฏ
How dare you not protect the public.โ
#StepDown
๐ ๐จ๐ฆ good morning, are you sick of hearing โTell the Fedsโ or โAlberta Pension Planโ propaganda ads made possible by OUR money on your favorite live stream, radio or tv station? Submit a complaint to
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In letters addressed to the 7 premiers who called on the federal government to pause a planned increase to the carbon price, PM โฆ
@JustinTrudeau
โฉ rejected the demand & reminded them they don't set federal climate policy. Leadership! โ๐ป
#cdnpoli
Southern Alberta wishing for snow as water levels at historic lows | Calgary Herald
Headโs up ๐๐ป wishing is not a strategy. The Ministry of Environment and Protected Areas needs to declare a ๐จstate of emergency๐จusing section 107 of the Water Act. 1/
In November 2019, the
@Alberta_UCP
canceled the Alberta Provincial Rapattack program without any consultation with the program coordinator or its senior members. My husband,
@CYeremiy
worked for Rapattack from 1994-2003. 1/
โMs. Smith appears entirely blind to the massive shifts in the global energy marketplace and the international political landscape that have placed climate change at the top of the agenda for the very industry she thinks she is protecting.โ
#AbPoli
Our premier lies saying industry isnโt using that much water really 220,000,000,000 L a year is more than the city of Calgary borrows which is 186,000,000,000 L a year. That is no small amount & the province wants to increase this amount! ๐ the insanity.
Not true, Alberta is less than 1% secured, has fugitive emissions/100% non-compliance, unreclaimed orphan sites, no sites on timelines (eta of sub-regional plan regulations?!?), and 1.2 trillion liters of oil sands waste water with known seepage.
#AbPoli
Alberta produces the most responsible, reliable, and environmentally friendly energy products on the planet.
It is time that Ottawa supports Alberta in our efforts to reduce emissions while keeping energy accessible and affordable for Canadians.
#Ableg
Danielle Smithโs Gas Tax will cost hard working Alberta families AT LEAST $371.80/year.
Danielle Smith PROMISED to make lives โMore Affordableโ for Albertans
Promises Made
Promises Destroyed
Life under the UCP gets worse.
Thanks Danielle.
#Abpoli
@ABDanielleSmith
@JustinTrudeau
You just went to Ottawa and what? Did you offer to speak with the PM?
Stop lying to Albertans. The carbon tax is a rebate while governments transition us. Stop the oil & gas sham and do the role you were elected to do. Youโre not my premier with the daily lies and red tape.
TC Energy announces layoffs, primarily in Calgary and Houston
More work with less support for those who remain. Oil and gas is not our friend. ๐
via
@BOEReport
โThe Alberta government has plugged its ears to (shifts to renewables) and continues to insist on protecting the petroleum industry no matter the cost to Albertans and the rest of the country.โ
#AbPoli
#AbLeg
The community was held back from a meeting about TRANS healthcare today at the
#ableg
in
#yyc
. 14 police officers were assigned to keep them out.
@YourAlberta
continues not to listen to expertise or community needs. Shame.
1/
#abpoli
@PremierScottMoe
Despicable rhetoric from a Premier. Solutions are here: solar, wind, hydro, battery storage with oil & gas site clean-up & reclamation along with rapid emissions reduction.
Does you o&g industry have a plan to shut off production without using freshwater? You need one!
#SkPoli
โthe frontier aspect of Alberta is over and we need to grow up. Unlimited space & inexhaustible resources are no more. Perhaps last on the list to be recognized is water, especially for southern Alberta.โ
#AbPoli
Opinion: The era of abundant water is over
Earlier today, I was at the City of Calgary Emergency Operations Centre, getting an update on the feedermain break repair. I also heard about the good job Calgarians are doing at conserving water. Keep it up!
โAnother client was a Delaware-based firm named 2254746 Alberta Sub Ltd. Behind the companyโs vague name is a familiar face: Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage.โ
Outgoing environment then energy minister care to comment?
#AbLeg
#AbPoli
Worried about Taxpayer Dollars? Focus on Fossil Fuel Subsidies โA billion here, a few billion there โ all these subsidies add up to a big cost to Canadians. While oil & gas companies boast about record profits, ๐จ๐ฆ taxpayers are footing the bill.โ
@TheTyee
Thank you for your leadership, Corb Lund!
Time for these companies to not only ๐ but clean up and pull out of the headwaters, entirely. Clearly a moratorium is not enough, we must call for clean up, including roads to restore critical habitat now.
#ableg
#JustStopAndCleanUpCoal
The AB govt is allowing foreign coal company Northback to reapply AGAIN to pursue mining interests @ Grassy Mtn after being told NO by the Feds & the Prov AER. WHY?? Makes no sense. Vast maj of ABns DON'T want coal mines in our Rockies.
#Followthemoney
>
I sure hope the renewable sector is ready to sue, perhaps a public class action lawsuit.
This is deliberate market manipulation, risking the energy sovereignty and security for western Canada and neighbouring US States.
#obstructing
#justice
#section139
#criminalcode
#abpoli
Just so weโre clear: Alberta is a place where a landowner canโt legally say NO to O&G development, but also canโt say YES to renewables. Strong and free, right? What a sad joke.
#ableg
Good Morning Alberta, I wrote my MLA the following, this morning. Thank you
@TheBreakdownAB
, for reminding us who our MLAs work for. Here's a look for anyone needing help with words. 1/
#ABLeg
#ABPoli
๐๐๐
Pension Funds Returns last reporting:
CPP: + 10.3%
AIMCo: - 3.4% Thatโs a MINUS
Danielle Smith is spending MILLIONS of your dollars to convince you to choose the
-3.4%.
Instead of blaming the carbon tax, direct your anger appropriately ๐๐ผ
#worldpoli
#usapoli
#cdnpoli
#abpoli
An Oil Price-Fixing Conspiracy Caused 27% of All Inflation Increases in 2021
In support of
@TheRealDKGray
's Alberta electricity market issue, here's what I've learned from Sheldon Fulton (an energy market consultant living in Calgary who has had an active role in the evolution of Albertaโs power market since 1996). ๐งต1/
Wow, the
@NHLFlames
fans booed our mayor? What a pathetic thing to do to someone who is dedicating her life to serve this city. I stand with our mayor. Not my team.
Sorry
@JyotiGondek
for the insult.
No large wildfires that threatened Alberta communities caused by arson | Edmonton Journal
๐ important when weโre expecting a similar year. Iโd like to hear from โฆ
@ABForestryParks
โฉ what preventative planning is underway? ๐๐ป
โThe City of Calgary is putting up $831 million in cash to build a new arena complex in Victoria Parkโnearly three times what the previous council committed to in 2019. The Flames are putting up $40 million.โ
#NotMyArena
#YycCc
Vermont becomes 1st state to enact law requiring oil companies pay for damage from climate change ๐๐ป๐๐ป๐๐ป
Clean up on aisle 14.
#Vermont
#polluterpay
14/50
Stand up all closure and clean up plans to 2050.
#phaseout
โSmithโs decision to involve Carlson in her petty feud with Canadaโs environment minister crossed a clear and bright line.โ
#AbPoli
#AbLeg
Danielle Smithโs dangerous dance with Tucker Carlson via
@NatObserver
@JasonPYYC
My current thinking: do we need provincial governments? They're acting as middle-persons blocking progress and not understanding local issues.
Alberta's Choice โWe can have our natural beauty or increased fossil fuel extraction, but not both.โ- by Jeremy Appel - โฆ
@theorchard
โฉ ๐๐ป
Albertans need to call for an end to fossil fuel extraction in all of its forms.
#JustStopAndCleanUpOil
#abpoli
Of course. โFor the first time, Alberta's oil and gas industry has exceeded the province's own regulatory limit for natural gas flaring.โ
The industry & its regulator,
@aer_news
, are incapable of following rules.
What does
@ab_enviro
say?
#ableg
#abpoli
Danielle Smith is both a libertarian โ and an authoritarian | Calgary Herald
โPremier Danielle Smith has a reputation for listening to โthe people.โ Her policies, however, suggest anything but.โ ๐ฏ๐๐ป
#abpoli
#ableg
โThe Alberta Energy Regulator has warned fossil fuel companies that their access to water, a key resource for extracting and processing hydrocarbons, may be restricted next year because of parched conditions in Western Canada.โ
#JustStopAndCleanUpOil
News Release: Alberta Wilderness Association
โAlbertaโs newly created Drought Advisory Committee does not include any representation from environmental organizations but made room to include industry representatives such as Ian Anderson, former CEO of TMXโ
Globe editorial: How Minnesota is winning โ and Alberta is losing โ the competition for clean power cash โโฆ
@globeandmail
โฉ
Thanks to โฆ
@ABDanielleSmith
โฉ and the โฆ
@UCPCaucus
โฉ, sunny Alberta is sitting on the sidelines.
#abpoli
#ableg
@ABDanielleSmith
@s_guilbeault
Unbelievable, you deny real green solutions available today for LNG nonsense. China has another supplier. Weโve missed that boat! The IEA has told us so! Wake up and serve this province not your buddies.
I would be abandoning the sinking๐ณ๏ธ right now if I were a
@UCPCaucus
MLA. They/them are standing by, or actively supporting loss of treatment rights to children. Either way, itโs operating on the wrong side of history.
@demetriosnAB
speak out, step aside
#StandingBy
=
#supporting
48 UCP MLA'S are not speaking out !
Call your UCP MLA tomorrow & tell them to do what is right for Alberta.
Cross the floor.
How could any ONE of 48 not have integrity, morals & ethics?
How can 48 MLA'S sit back & watch the destruction of this great Province?
Stop Smith!
The critiques of
@AB_Enviro
โs water-sharing non-agmt I gave
@GlobalEdmonton
:
The water sharing announcement is a nothing burger at best or a total free for all, at worst. The province is allowing water diversion licenses at the base of the headwaters at an unsustainable rate.
1/
Our premier lies saying industry isnโt using that much water really 220,000,000,000 L a year is more than the city of Calgary borrows which is 186,000,000,000 L a year. That is no small amount & the province wants to increase this amount! ๐ the insanity.
@CorbLund
Though not as dirty, equally risky to devastating fresh drinking water, is the 1,100 clearcut logging program that may commence as early as December 1, 2023. Please call on the
#UCP
TO stop ALL coal mining and logging programs in southern Alberta.
Alberta farmers vow to keep up the fight against proposed motorsports park ๐๐ป
Absolutely not! It is time to get serious about
#SARA
or we may add human to the list. No more destruction of our province,
#restoration
is the way.
#abpoli
#ableg
@ABDanielleSmith
@sunrickbell
The NDP hasnโt been in power since 2019. The previous government was yours. Have you done nothing in four years, also, address poverty. Lead with prevention in every form. You simply aim to control the backend, when the problem is too far gone.
Alberta government forms committee to prepare for severe drought
Right idea, poor execution. This committee doesnโt include watershed councils and is not broad enough in terms of Indigenous/city/town council engagement. Just declare a
#stateofemergency
!
No, Premier
@ABDanielleSmith
, this is not a policing problem. Itโs a dissociation problem from a system that sets people up for failure. Start with caring in the form of housing and providing basic needs. We have lots of vacant buildings, figure it out.
This clip should make your blood absolutely curdle...
Smith appeared on the Shaun Newman Podcast today and spoke about her plans for addressing homelessness/houselessness.
You're going to want to brace yourself.
Because it's worse than you think.
/1
#abpoli
#ableg
#cdnpoli
And just like that. DEVASTATING NEWS about the Rosebud River. Alberta Environment has gone ahead with approvals for development of a racetrack IN THE RIPARIAN zone. This development will impact listed bat species summer & winter habitat. 1/n
Alberta hired an oil insider to help shape climate policy. โIf you put somebody from CAPP in this position, they're not going to question the government's anti-climate change policy; they're going to reinforce it,โ says Stephen Legault
@envirodefence
๐ฏ 1/
On Nov 7,
@CYeremiy
joined
@shoffmanAB
and current members of the Rapattack program to speak in defense of it. Please note: the
@albertaNDP
acted and supported this program to the best of their ability when they needed to. 2 days after letters were issued.
Wow, I just discovered this North America drought monitor map. Please do not listen to those who are celebrating the recent rain... it is NOT enough. We must plan for less and stop wasting water, there are alternatives for the oil and gas industry.
#abpoli
Our Colonel Irvine-sponsored policy on embedding climate and biodiversity
#education
throughout the K-12 curriculum (incorporating hands-on learning experiences with a focus on critical thinking/equity/wellbeing) passed!
#ASCAConf2024
#abed
#climateliteracy
Opponents cautiously optimistic as clearcut in Kananaskis appears to be on hold -
Again, thank you, Village of Cowley for joining the opposition to logging the headwaters of the Upper Highwood! ๐๐ป
#StateOfEmergency
#s107
#WaterAct
United Conservative members are some of the most principled, passionate, and caring people I've ever met!
Last year, we came together at our AGM to pass meaningful policies that our UCP government is now acting upon. I am looking forward to another great year with all of you as
I just saw 2-3 Recall Jyoti signs on public lands โ is this allowed right now? And if so, why? Can we do โleave our mayor aloneโ signs, then?
#yyc
#abpoli
X/Twitter user
@Martyupnorth
posted to the platform claiming that suggesting that a suite of wildfires that burned down Alberta towns dating back to 2001 were an effort to make Alberta "comply" with a so-called "climate scam."
#abpoli
๐ขCalgary will run out of water 'in the days to come' if current usage doesn't drop, city says
When will
@YourAlberta
declare a stage ๐จ๐จ๐จ๐จ๐จ water emergency? Will it be when Calgary runs out of water?!?
#yyccc
#abpoli
#ableg
โTransAlta,
#abpoli
โs largest power generator, cited provincial rule changes to renewable developments and uncertainty around broader electricity market reforms.โ
WHAT. A. JOKE. โฆ
@TransAlta
โฉ cannot move ๐จ forward, welcome to your end.โ ๏ธ Shameful!
Hey Premier
@ABDanielleSmith
, letโs see a similar program in
#Alberta
! Letโs help low income families break free from the boom-and-bust oil and gas cycles.๐๐ผ
Today, we announced exciting news for homeowners in
#Newfoundland
and
#Labrador
. To help make the shift to heat pumps more affordable, the enhanced Oil to Heat Pump Affordability program is now offering up to $22,000 to successful applicants.
Learn more:
For twenty years, Albertans paid an average of $4.2 billion in electricity per year. In the past ten years $40.7 billionโฆ in the last 3: $37.2 billion. Over-valued by ~85%, should be $20 billion according to our regulator (MSA)!!! This information is ALL PUBLIC. 15/
What guarantee do people living in Alberta have that interbasin transfers and dams won't be dry like the Old Man Dam is right now?! How did the
@UCPCaucus
and
@AB_Enviro
allow the Old Man and St. Mary reservoirs to run dry?
#abpoli
#ableg
#waterislife
Update: the
@AER_news
has approved 172 water diversion licenses for industry, since March 17.
Note: the name water diversion license is
#greenwashing
. It should be called "freshwater theft, never to return" licences.
#abpoli
#ableg
โCan the renewables industry mobilize an โI Love Alberta Wind and Solarโ campaign that would capture the UCPโs attention like the Defend Alberta Parks lawnsigns?โ ๐ค.
#AbPoli
#CdnPoli
Why Did Danielle Smith Block Albertaโs Renewable Energy? | The Tyee
Thank you,
@RachelNotley
, for leading this province through
#LowerForLonger
. I look back at the NDPโs time in office as a time when collaboration occurred across all three levels of government. This must return, we the people must demand better.
#ForOurKids
#AbPoli
#AbLeg
Letโs please move on from Carbon Capture and Storage as a solution to oil and gas production. Just stop and start cleaning up oil. Now, by jurรญdiction.
Saskatchewan's Boundary dam carbon capture project underperforms, report says - BNN Bloomberg
Now, what does any of this have to do with a carbon tax? You got it, nothing! We are all complaining about carbon tax meanwhile the price of electricity is UNREGULATED and overriding any carbon tax-related cost to consumers by a landslide! 18/
Wouldnโt it be nice for
@youralberta
to export excess solar and wind power to BC?
#AbPoli
#AbLeg
Drought conditions force BC Hydro to rely on power purchases - The Globe and Mail
๐ Wut? While Razor Energy, funded by AIMCo, going through the courts for bankruptcy, the very same assets are being sold by Crescent Point for a significant๐ฐto buyer unknown.
1960s liabilities passed down while the assets continue to be abused.
Speaking in opposition to the UCP proposal to give incentives to oil and gas companies that would allow them to avoid their legal obligation to pay for their own cleanup costs. We canโt let corporations off the $260+ billion hook!
#ChooseAlbertansNotRStar
#ABPoli
#ABLeg
Alberta researchers call for public inquiry to ensure oilsands cleanup ๐๐ป
Albertans need to see progressive reclamation of the oil sands today, completion in 2050. An evidence-informed reclamation plan for the 100,000 haโs & 1.6 trillion liters.
#AbPoli
โPremier Danielle Smith has publicly declared war on the energy transition. Alberta is now the place where energy incumbents โ electric utilities, oil and gas producers, coal companies โ are granted the protection of the state.โ
#petrostate
#goingdownwiththeship
#ucpstyle
#abpoli
Danielle Smithโs Alberta, the land of energy dinosaurs
@ABDanielleSmith
doubles down on 20th century by hobbling wind, solar development
Clean, abundant, low cost, reliable electricity is the foundation of the 21st century.
#ABleg
#Alberta
#OOTT
Whereโs the government overreach outrage, now? You need to bring it.
#EnoughIsEnough
#abpoli
Cancel the Arena deal in response, ๐๐ป ๐ค
#yyccc
I need access to the city for all not a billionaireโs playpen.
#yyc
#solidarity
Yesterday, we received a letter from the provincial government outlining a significant scope change to the Green Line project. As a result of that scope change, we are no longer as a city able to afford the cost of this project.
We have been fiscally responsible with Green
๐ฃโResidents in Pearce, Arizona are facing a dystopian crisis: their wells are running dry while a neighboring industrial dairy operation continues to use unprecedented amounts of groundwater.โ
Happening in Alberta folks! ๐ industrial water use!
#abpoli
Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Chief Allan Adam, who served the Alberta Energy Regulator CEO with a $500 million lawsuit for negligence re: Imperial Oilโs tailings spills into the Athabasca River told me he doesnโt believe the AER stating no tailings got into waterways, โI find
Donโt turn the rhetoric down - by Emily Atkin, HEATED
โIf a person poses an existential threat to the planet, itโs OK to say that. In fact, itโs our responsibility to.โ
For you, Premier โฆ
@ABDanielleSmith
โฉ ๐๐ป. I am dialing the โrhetoricโ up ๐ช๐ป๐ค๐ป
ICYMI: โthe Alberta Energy Regulator, the sole regulator of all fossil fuel development in the province, released a new report looking at water use by the oil & gas industry, which showed it consumed 221.4 billion litres of water in 2022.โ
Yyc used 162 b!
The hypocrisy is rich!
The map on the left is where wind turbines will not be allowed. The map on the right shows the concentrations of abandoned & orphaned wells.
๐ to โBerta: drill & orphan sour gas wells on class 1 prime agricultural land w/t security but no windmills pls.