Under the federal clean electricity plan Albertans can expect heating costs to rise and the provincial energy job market to shrink.
Yes, they admit that even in their manipulated formulas, “the national average household energy bill will increase by $35 to $61 per year if the regulations are adopted.” But the higher costs for home heating and electricity, they assure us, will be more than made up by the amounts we will save “as people move away from fossil fuels to heat their homes, cook food or power vehicles.”
Here’s a little hidden gem in the proposed regulations, expected to come into full effect by 2035: the Trudeau government wants Canadians to get over their dependence on natural gas furnaces and stovetops. They want us to move to heat pumps and electric ranges. Do you, dear fellow Prairie resident, want to give up your gas furnace when the northwesterly winds start to blow on a January night and it’s -35 outside, just so Justin Trudeau and Steven Guilbeault can feel smug about their efforts to save the planet?Article contentAlso, because the Liberals control all the variables in their eco planning, they can overlook practical drawbacks and fallacies.
They can ignore the fact that Canada would have to build the equivalent of another 100 power plants between now and 2035 if they want to eliminate fossil fuel electricity and the internal combustion engine, simultaneously. Where are those new plants coming from? Since they won’t allow new natural gas plants and its unlikely they have the political will to build a dozen or more nuclear plants, just imagine how many wind turbines and solar panels they are going to have to erect in every park, on every farm and in every grazing pasture in the country.
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