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I assume the same "pristine viewscapes" bullshit will apply to oil & gas and coal mines etc. (of course it won't)
There's nothing prettier than a swath of land stripped bare with the barren limestone exposed, the pristine reflections of the sun on the undisturbed tailing ponds, the piles of black mud with lines of tire tracks running through it, with the silence broken only by intermittent booms to keep the birds from landing in the toxic sludge.
Or how about the oil derricks in the north, placed delicately in the middle of the boreal forest, within a clearcut square of stripped down below the soil, creating a beautiful bare patch 100m in every direction from the derricks.
The year is 6000BCE. Time traveling Danielle Smith rallies against planting farms to preserve natural beauty. Insists hunting is a much more practical food source and will continue to serve humanity's needs indefinitely.
That would actually be less dumb. Being a peasant sucks, yo.
Being a hunter-gather sucks more.
Does it? You still might starve, but at least you spend your time wandering beautiful wilds and practicing your hunting skills. Depending on which biome you're in you might even have considerable leisure time.
If you think about it, so many of our videogames are like hunting and gathering. I think we evolved to like that lifestyle. Few people enjoy smacking plants to get seeds off all day, on the other hand. Or getting dicked around by a local noble.
In my opinion, renewables, especially wind mills, look incredibly aesthetically pleasing on a landscape. They are extra pretty because you know they are replacing coal/oil and how can clean energy not be amazingly beautiful in that regard?
But it will be perfectly acceptable to put an oil well there which will be abandoned and left to rot after a few years I bet.
QUIT ELECTING MORONS, you morons.
Literally nobody in the public voted for her in the first term at least.
Edit: WTF, Lemmy. I'm factually correct. Look at her Wikipedia page if you don't believe me.
She was appointed when Jason Kenney resigned. She won in the second term, not the first term. In the first term, the public was not given a chance to vote for her or not.
Interesting. Politicians just come in to existence already in power? This explains so much.
Nope. Originally her party was elected when somebody else was at the helm, and then when Jason Kenney retired, she was just kind of put there.
Literally no one in the public voted for her originally.
I'm in Alberta but I vote NDP.
Before he left, Kenney was actually warning that the crazies were trying to take over. Hell, we thought Kenney was crazy. Turns out he was right about this one thing.
Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!
Because when the oil industry does it to more than 140 thousand square kilometers that's fine.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The decision, announced by the premier, Danielle Smith, and utilities minister, Nathan Neudorf, on Wednesday, follows a controversial six-month ban on new renewable energy projects that is due to expire on 29 February.
Alberta’s moratorium, announced in August, left energy companies uncertain about billions in future investment, even as the region, with its clear skies and an abundance of wind, led the country in new renewable projects.
Smith said that the new rules reflect what she called “errors” in the way liability for oil and gas companies was structured in the past – and has since led to mounting crisis in the province as officials contend with roughly 170,000 “orphaned” oilwell sites.
In order to preserve its vast open prairie landscapes and sight lines of the Rocky Mountains, the province will put in buffer zones at least 35 kilometres (22 miles) separating what the government believes is a “pristine viewscape” and wind turbines.
Neudorf admitted there was no “universal definition” of the term, but cited other jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom, with rules surrounding buffer zones.
Neudorf also said the policy would apply to the “vertical footprint” of all wind turbines – but that other industries that physically alter the landscape, such as coal projects or clearcut logging, would be assessed on a case-by-case basis.
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Wow, so not only is this a direct attack on renewables, but non renewables that fall under the same situation are too be reviewed case by case?
Wild