Alberta is under the climate change microscope always and Alberta never gets the credit or the “credits” for providing natural gas to other provinces for heating.
Eastern Canada receives our natural gas every day to assist in residential/commercial heating and some power generation. Quebec has hydro, the ‘enviro-friendly’ energy source, and Ontario has nuclear, the ’scary not in my backyard’ super-generator and yet both need to rely heavily on Alberta’s natural gas to meet their energy needs.
If carbon credits are seen as a viable method of offsetting/mitigating/reducing carbon footprints should Alberta receive credits from our daily deliveries of natural gas to Eastern Canada? Of course, we should! Oh, maybe from the U.S. also!
Brian McConaghy, Foothills County
Trumped out
Thank you for not putting a story of the Trump shooting on the front page of the Calgary Herald. I never thought I would be happy to see a story about water restrictions as a cover story but after being inundated all weekend with stories, conspiracy theories and talking head analysis, I was very happy to read that half of Albertans still feel they give more to Canada than it gets.
Rob Butler, Calgary
Does the City of Calgary want to kill our lawns?
As a homeowner and owner of a few rental properties, I was thinking the City would get this water system malfunction under control before it caused irreparable damage to lawns. When we got a few weeks of intermittent rain, I was relieved, thinking this would tied us over until they fixed it. With the hot weather now here, I am again worried about the future of our lawns. I have also heard it could be September before they move us out of Stage 3 water restrictions.
Meanwhile, Stampede went off without a problem. Pools and spray parks are open. I even saw the city watering trees. I am starting to wonder if our mayor and council want all of our lawns to die. Perhaps they are setting the stage for future ongoing exterior water reductions? Given how they forced the new rezoning laws on us, I am highly suspicious that isn’t another one of their manipulative plans. Time will tell.
Karen Hope, Calgary
Wishing and hoping and no real solutions
Here’s an idea: Since the city no longer cuts the grass along the roads before it is two feet tall, they should plant hay (I hear there’s a drought variety), bale it up in the fall and sell it. The profits could go to replacing the failed water lines. They could use all the BS from City Hall to fertilize the hay.
Water limits until September? What happens next spring? More limits and a lot of dead trees, that’s their idea of a solution?
We need real leaders who look after the city first, not pie-in-the-blue-sky wish lists.
Randy Chomistek, Calgary