Hi Dittmar,
I hope you heard earlier during the webcast that we've seen 10 Alberta Cities and Towns write letters to the Premier's Office, asking for a task force or expert panel to look at our renewable power potential and the best policies to develop it, as well as a public consultation with Albertans on renewables.
Where do you live? Has your municipality written yet? You could write as an individual as well, of course.
I'm glad for the work being done out of the AUMA, with it's $2 million program to help municipalities on conservation, efficiency, and renewables. It is valuable and will in all likelihood be effective.
But this is not the expert panel that has been requested. It doesn't touch Provincial energy policy in Alberta. It doesn't support the family that wants solar panels on their home, nor the farmer who would like to install a digester to capture methane off of cattle manure and generate electricity for the farm and to export the excess out onto the grid, as is done on a large scale by HighMark Renewables outside of Vegreville.
And compare their $2 million budget to the $2 BILLION that our gov't gave to carbon capture and storage.
ROGER GAGNE — 12 MAR 2010 - 04:18 PM MT
Hi Dittmar, I hope you heard earlier during the webcast that we've seen 10 Alberta Cities and Towns write letters to the Premier's Office, asking for a task force or expert panel to look at our renewable power potential and the best policies to develop it, as well as a public consultation with Albertans on renewables. Where do you live? Has your municipality written yet? You could write as an individual as well, of course. I'm glad for the work being done out of the AUMA, with it's $2 million program to help municipalities on conservation, efficiency, and renewables. It is valuable and will in all likelihood be effective. But this is not the expert panel that has been requested. It doesn't touch Provincial energy policy in Alberta. It doesn't support the family that wants solar panels on their home, nor the farmer who would like to install a digester to capture methane off of cattle manure and generate electricity for the farm and to export the excess out onto the grid, as is done on a large scale by HighMark Renewables outside of Vegreville. And compare their $2 million budget to the $2 BILLION that our gov't gave to carbon capture and storage.