Letters, Aug. 5: Inexperienced Line LRT is a community-building mission

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Re: Residents group gaining momentum to ‘rethink’ Inexperienced Line building, July 27

Frequent patrons of Calgary Transit might imagine town has prepared options to deal with considerations raised by Jim Grey and his group.

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It was acknowledged that the proposed Eau Claire station will solely be used for individuals to get on the LRT to go to the seventh Avenue station. That’s baffling.

The Eau Claire station can be a vacation spot cease for the Bow River Pathway, Prince’s Island Park, Eau Claire, Chinatown and factors downtown, to not point out the long run high-density growth to interchange the Eau Claire Market.

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Grey could also be shocked that individuals who get on a practice at Eau Claire might get off elsewhere than the seventh Avenue station. They may go to the BMO Centre, Stampede grounds, the long run Calgary occasion centre, any residential neighbourhood or industrial park and employment centre north and south of downtown served by the Inexperienced Line.

Most name the Inexperienced Line a neighborhood and metropolis builder, serving to to develop the areas it serves. Apparently, there are some who name it a line that goes from nowhere to nowhere. The Metropolis of Calgary and the Inexperienced Line staff took years of intensive effort to contain the communities to specific their views.

Some individuals appear to actually want to have a failed Inexperienced Line as an alternative of working towards a profitable mission.

Ray Ho, Calgary

Don’t blame renewable power for prime energy costs

Re: Calgary prepares for power charges to hit document excessive, July 31

The latest article pointed to renewable power and the federal carbon tax as components growing Alberta electrical energy charges. That’s incorrect: the federal carbon value doesn’t apply to electrical energy in Alberta.

And analysis from Calgary’s Faculty of Public Coverage reveals the overwhelming majority of latest fee will increase in Alberta resulted from corporations altering how they mark up energy costs after twenty years of energy buying agreements resulted in 2021.

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Including renewable electrical energy capability isn’t in charge. In reality, new photo voltaic and wind energy (together with power storage) is already cost-competitive with gas-fired era in Alberta, and demand is rising. 

Increasing clear electrical energy can appeal to new development, assist diversify the financial system, and energy a aggressive future for Albertans. 

Rick Smith, president of the Canadian Local weather Institute

Liberal MP’s assault on Stampede out of line

I attended the final day of this yr’s Calgary Stampede. Everybody I noticed was having fun with the normalcy once more of the Stampede.

George Chahal advocating for the elimination of any additional help for the Stampede is an instance of somebody making an attempt to raise his political profile together with his chief and inside his get together. He misplaced Calgarians’ belief when he filched opponents’ leaflets from mailboxes in the course of the 2021 federal election marketing campaign, and he shouldn’t be utilizing the unlucky victims of sexual crimes to salvage his personal model.

George, given your disdain for the Calgary Stampede, you clearly plan to by no means seem in any occasion sooner or later related to the Stampede; to do in any other case can be completely disingenuous.

Mary Anne Clarke, Calgary

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