• BlueN1te@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Can’t wait to hear all the folks here in Alberta whinging about gas prices going up cause of this. 😑🔫

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    Good. Why do we subsidize companies that gouge us while reporting record profits? Had they done this 20 years ago maybe the country wouldn’t be on fire.

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      1 year ago

      Had the o&g companies published their 1970’s findings that their continued existence meant the end of ours, maybe the whole planet wouldn’t be, either.

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    I hate the word “soon”.

    We’ve been saying “soon” for decades. Just rip the bandaid off & fscking do it!

    Incrementalism will literally be the death of us - by wild fire or drowning.

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      Wait what do you mean?

      Its only all the qualified experts and scientists (AKA nerds) who think that climate change will end us all.

      My uncle and some oil/gas execs say otherwise 🤔

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      The Federal Minister making the announcement in the article specifically talks about other ways oil and gas can access other subsidies. It’s just not oil & gas specific subsidies.

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    Environment groups want such technology excluded because they say anything that encourages continued fossil-fuel production is harmful.

    Environment groups want Alberta’s economy to collapse. Take the win, ffs. If companies are dumping more money into carbon capture, maybe it’ll actually be useful.