Where are the scare quotes?

Vincent J. Curtis

16 Aug 23

RE: Alberta rejects plan for clean energy.  News item Bloomberg News.  The Hamilton Spectator 16 Aug 23.

Alberta rejects “plan” for “clean” energy?  Where are the scare quotes in the headline?  Minister of Climate Craziness Steven Guilbeault offered no plan for the Alberta grid: he proposed regulations; the planning he left up to Alberta.  So, there should be scare quotes around ‘plan.’

Alberta’s energy grid is 90+ percent based on clean-burning natural gas.  There’s no air pollution; there’s only CO2 and H2O in the exhaust.  So, where are the scare quotes around ‘clean.’  Just because Guilbeault deems the combustion products of natural gas unclean doesn’t make it so.

What goes unsaid is that there’s no need to force the Chinese unreliables on Albertans, as Guilbeault is trying to do.  SNC-Lavalin, the famous Quebec-based engineering firm, is licensed to build the CANDU SMR, a 300 MW descendent of the famously dependable CANDU reactor.  But, strangely, Guilbeault is not pushing for this Quebec-based Canadian company; he’s pushing unreliable technology from overseas.  Why?

Does the fact that he is an advisor to the Chinese government on climate change have anything to do with it?  He’s certainly acting like the sales agent for the CCP in Canada, with the power to coerce his customers.  How deep does the Chinese scandal go in the Trudeau government?

There’s no proof Canada is causing global warming, and Guilbeault has yet to say by how much his net zero plan will reduce global temperature by 2100.

It’s time for the Canadian media to wake up and start asking questions, not merely republishing Canadian government press releases essentially verbatim.

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