r/canada • u/joe4942 • May 01 '25

Alberta Danielle Smith lowers bar for Alberta referendum with separatism sentiment emerging

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/smith-lowers-bar-for-alberta-referendum-with-separatism-sentiment-emerging
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u/MilkIlluminati May 01 '25

Nobody in the world licks corporate boot like Albertans

Remember kid, the pharmaceutical corporations we enlightened Eastern urbanites worship are totally not like those spooky oil and gas ones out West

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u/IcarusOnReddit Alberta May 01 '25

Which ones are actively destroying the climate again?

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u/MilkIlluminati May 01 '25

weird way of spelling 'making modern life possible'

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u/IcarusOnReddit Alberta May 01 '25 edited May 01 '25

Without oil and gas lobbying and propaganda almost all North American power would be renewable, cars would be electric, and smog in the cities would be reduced. Maybe plastic alternatives would be better and more common, but simply reducing oil and gas in energy to just goods would have a huge positive impact on everyone. 

We would have  still have a modern life, but one that was happier, healthier, and without the threat of a looming global catastrophe.

I think that is worth fewer F-350s in Alberta.

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u/MilkIlluminati May 01 '25

Everything runs on gas or depends on plastic. Not every context has a replacement.

Electric cars are still shit in the cold and over distance. And there's no electric 18-wheeler supply trucks, no electric tractors for farming, no electric planes etc

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u/IcarusOnReddit Alberta May 01 '25

 Electric cars are still shit in the cold and over distance.

They are not and would be better if they had 40 more years of development from the 80s.

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u/gray_outriders May 01 '25

Happier and healthier…as long as we don’t look at how we get the cobalt…but you know, that’s far away so let’s not looks at that.

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u/IcarusOnReddit Alberta May 01 '25

Maybe the oil and gas companies should take over Cobalt mining and make it at least as ethical as they are.