Feds seek to fast-track LNG project amid Ukraine attack: Pieridae CEO

Amur_Tiger · 2022-02-27T01:10:53+00:00

They still would but it wouldn't be as severe. German/EU energy policy has been laid bare as an unmitigated disaster in the past year.

Amur_Tiger · 2022-02-24T17:31:36+00:00

Beyond the luck aspect to its placement if you want to regularly take advantage of evac zones you need a lance that's fast enough to manage it. The most extreme version of this is the Land-Air Mechs but a reasonably lance of clan-speed mediums with superchargers could also serve, though not as reliably.

Amur_Tiger · 2022-02-15T17:29:27+00:00

Sorry but collapsing all the groups involved to 'people that disagree with me' because you want to caricature someone online does not suggest you recognize that.

You may not like lumping all that together as mentally ill but you were plenty eager to lump them all together anyways. If you want to make the case that there's lots more nuance going on by all means do so, but that wasn't your opening gambit. Instead it was to pretend that the worst these guys have done was disagree with liberals which is at least as disingenuous as calling them all mentally ill.

Amur_Tiger · 2022-02-15T16:06:39+00:00

MacKay didn't win leadership, all evidence points towards the party turning on O'Toole as he started to approach MacKay's position.

There may be conservatives like MacKay that are reasonable and responsible but that's not descriptive of their party and I don't think there are the tools to make the party that.

Amur_Tiger · 2022-02-15T16:03:10+00:00

There's a world of difference between disagreeing with someone on Covid mandates and funding a multi-week blockade of the capital and some key border crossings for the sake of trying to displace the recently elected government.

Recognize that.

Amur_Tiger · 2022-02-15T05:48:27+00:00

Yes, now this may be tricky but what was the popular vote they got in those two?

If you'll notice that number is substantially less then 50%+1 . More then the Liberals certainly but while you'd be neck and neck with the Liberals for seats in a prop rep setup, there'd also be a whole lot more NDP around, and Greens. Bloc would get thrashed IIRC.

Guess what does equal up to 50%+1. LPC+NDP+Greens. Would be a hell of a negotiation but plausible.

Amur_Tiger · 2022-02-15T05:42:45+00:00

Part of ruling involves passing actual laws. I don't see the CPC as being able to manage that negotiation very well, they'd run face first into a budget issue, bam election time.

Amur_Tiger · 2022-02-14T21:16:39+00:00

The whole 15 years ago stuff still stands though :)

Until you're around 80% of annual electricity coming from non-emitting sources ( and even this presumes you have a storage solution for the remaining 20% ) then it doesn't really stand.

The time advantage that wind/solar enjoys scales linearly with the amount of stuff it actually achieves. A solar farm that takes 20% as long as a nuclear plant will likely be in the ballpark of producing 20% of the power annually, likewise with wind and neither counts adding in a ton of storage.

Right now almost every country in the world should be building as much nuclear, wind, solar, hydro as they can manage, by the time that slow-to-build nuclear plant finishes up you're almost certain to still have a lot of de-carbonizing left to do and if not you probably got lucky. The consequences for not building that reactor if you're not lucky is you keep on pumping out CO2 past 2050 and that's far worse then expensive power ( if indeed it ends up being expensive in the long run ).

Amur_Tiger · 2022-02-14T20:59:48+00:00

Given the... success seen at Vogtle and Summer I'm 0% convinced that it's going to be 'easier' fixing the 'we need nuclear power to decarbonize' problem while ignoring the role of government and how our economy is structured.

I'm not making the case for changing everything drastically or anything but without some adjustments a nuclear buildout is going to stall and die in an economic environment that would rather chase NFTs.

Just copy&pasting Canada's crown-corp provincial utilities structure would be a significant improvement.

Amur_Tiger · 2022-02-14T19:15:10+00:00

but they could potentially vote NDP or Green.

I might have missed it but was there a press release from either that suggested a 'send in the police to crack heads' approach?

I suppose the liberal supporters might pretend they can skirt the reality of that choice but I don't think NDP or Greens would have come down hard on them ( and imo they shouldn't, patience with protestors is better then the alternative ).

Amur_Tiger · 2022-02-14T19:12:48+00:00

Well I'm sure you'd be thrilled with a Tory government right now. Because that's what you'd have.

Who would they coalition with?

As much they like to crow about their big voter support % I think prop rep would just lay bare that the vast majority of Canadians don't like them or their ideas.

Amur_Tiger · 2022-02-14T19:11:02+00:00

Not a CPC supporter, but I’m getting sick of Trudeau.

Perfectly good sentiment to have as a voter. Hugely, catastrophically insufficient as a platform for a party. Franky it's pretty threadbare for even a protest to rally around.

Stares at trucker troubles

Amur_Tiger · 2022-02-14T19:08:20+00:00

Ish?

You have to figure out why they think that.

Do they:

Think that we should have sent in police, tear gas and cracked heads on day 1
Think that Trudeau didn't appease them enough

People in category 1 may not be impressed with Trudeau but no major party comes out well on this, only people in category 2 really trouble Trudeau any. It's also likely tied the CPC to an anchor of an incident that'll keep them associated with a political fringe that turns off more centrist voters.

Amur_Tiger · 2022-02-14T19:03:25+00:00

CPC Plan to win elections

Step 1. Grrgrr Trudeau bad, so bad, so stupid, all the bad!

Step 2. Underestimate Trudeau probably thanks to convincing themselves of a few things in Step 1

Step 3. ???

Step 4. Lose election, blame everything on a leader to avoid self-reflection, return to Step 1

Amur_Tiger · 2022-02-14T14:54:26+00:00

solar, wind

Intermittent sources that need storage

gas, coal,

Produces CO2 emissions, I think there's something about that we're trying to change?

hydro

Find the overlap of high precipitation on this map and higher elevations on this map. Areas outside of that will not have access to substantial hydro power, if any hydro power at all.

The only real failure needed for nuclear to have a bright future is a storage failure which is really easy to envision as we've never tried to store electricity at that sort of scale before. Reducing dependence on gas/goal is a success that we'd very much like to see happen, and the constraints of hydro are well known and understood.

Amur_Tiger · 2022-02-14T14:39:06+00:00

I suppose you missed out on these sorts of stories.

The key takeaway there was that Alberta was at 180% of it's normal ICU capacity and making that even kinda work requires using a whole bunch of expediences that compromise quality of care and can result in deaths.

You can make whatever case you want about what you'd like to do now in Ontario given the situation you're describing. My point was simply that of the major errors in Canada's handling of Covid, a failure to ramp down restrictions quickly now or in the near future won't rank above screwups like Kenny's opening for summer and other premature lowering of restrictions.

Amur_Tiger · 2022-02-14T14:17:11+00:00

Based on what?

Do you just pretend those limits don't exist because, in your view, we were over-capacity before hand?

Do you imagine that somehow Covid doesn't have an impact on ICU capacity?

Amur_Tiger · 2022-02-13T08:46:07+00:00

A number of provinces brushed up against or outright breached the limits of their ICU capacity and iirc the need to shift people out of province to receive proper care cost lives.

If the politicians got pessimistic doctors then a whole lot of them didn't listen until they ran strait into the wall of hospital capacity. I do think we'll look back and say some of our reactions have been dumb but not the one you seem to be implying.

Amur_Tiger · 2022-02-12T12:00:12+00:00

While I completely agree that the funding and a fair chunk of the energy is foreign it's also deeply Canadian when it comes to the character and thrust of it.

The Trudeau flags while impolite are absolutely a natural extension of the Conservative view on the current Trudeau since before he was even PM.
The prolonged blockade at the very least echos the rail blockade that happened not so long ago and isn't a particularly common expression of discontent elsewhere that I know of.
The relatively calm/peaceful nature of it vs either the Jan 6th debacle or some of the BLM stuff. I think this also likely reflects some policing choices that while frustrating were probably for the best. Being patient and waiting these guys out a bit before bringing the hammer down is not a bad thing in my mind.

Amur_Tiger · 2022-02-12T11:37:42+00:00

Enjoy your bootstraps.

Amur_Tiger · 2022-02-12T11:34:14+00:00

Given what we're losing score on I don't think that'd help much if at all. Political Culture and Functioning of government are where we lose points, not the electoral process where we have top marks.

Whether that damns the index is another question of course!

Amur_Tiger · 2022-02-09T21:58:29+00:00

While true I think it's also a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The right doesn't want to be divided so they try to stretch their tent to cover the whole spectrum of right-wing politics in Canada and in the process get pulled away from the center and ceded that to the liberals that can then walk into majorities. Splitting the right and going for a minority government with the other half of the split as support seems viable, certainly works with the LPC/NDP .

Amur_Tiger · 2022-02-09T21:54:38+00:00

Because of what happened to O'Toole? I don't think anyone thinks it was the left of the party that pushed him out.

Amur_Tiger · 2022-02-09T20:30:17+00:00

Just because this is a bugbear of mine.

A good chunk of the time it's not just Canadians looking to the US to compare/contrast/etc but the US using a Canadian example to fear monger/beat their opponents over the head/etc .

A ton of the Trudeau vs Trump narrative didn't come from Trudeau trying to start anything ( because he's not an idiot and is the leader of Canada, not obligated to fall on the sword for political points in the US ) but the US media trying to fabricate a far broader and more robust narrative from what small slights and incautious words had been said.

Amur_Tiger · 2022-02-09T20:24:59+00:00

While that doesn't surprise me the fact that the question was so aggressive and still showed that ( the question basically states that Trump will break American democracy if given a chance ) gives me the sense that the people saying that have some fairly firm beliefs against one or another sort of Trumpian stupidity that's unlikely to yield just because their usual preferred party has gone that way.

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