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Letters, Aug. 10: Moratorium on inexperienced energy initiatives defies Conservative logic

Re: UCP’s six-month moratorium on new inexperienced power initiatives is baffling, Opinion, Aug. 5

The optics of this mind-bending determination are cringeworthy. It’s so opposite to bedrock Conservative rules. Since when does this province encourage funding to flee?

The long run is now. This province must embrace it and lead the cost (pun supposed).

Janice Reynolds, Calgary

Take motion to ease energy worth ache

Re: Energy ache for Calgarians; Utility franchise charges result in income bonanza for metropolis coffers as shoppers really feel the pinch, Opinion, Aug. 5

It’s shocking how little consideration shoppers pay to the price of utilities till costs go ridiculously excessive. Because of this column, there are some things to mitigate that value.

First, get off the government-regulated charge (RRO), which is double a aggressive fastened charge with an Alberta retailer — Alberta Utilities Advocate (https://ucahelps.alberta.ca/retailers.aspx). The second is the Calgary franchise payment, which is double that of Edmonton and greater than different municipalities within the province.

Additionally, it needs to be a set payment nevertheless it follows the value of energy at round 10 per cent.

It is a money seize by the town and councillors needs to be ashamed for letting it perpetuate, so allow them to know your disapproval.

David Birkby, Calgary

Think about high quality of lifetime of polar bears

Because of a letter author who wrote about polar bears coming to Calgary. He has began the dialog.

I keep in mind the polar bears that wanted medicine to maintain them from indescribable psychological hardships again after they had been captivated within the zoo, pacing backwards and forwards on the concrete.

Please, no extra. I do know the zoo is getting ready a brand new location for these polar bears however an enclosure continues to be a confined house. We don’t want them to be entrapped for the general public to stare at them in a pen. I perceive they’re seven and eight years outdated which were dwelling in one other zoo for a number of years.

Fairly than two bears dwelling in captivity for a few years so the general public can see them for instance of wildlife in Northern Canada, take into account the general public doesn’t have the best to see them in such a tragic and unhealthy scenario. They’re dwelling wildlife that don’t need to be handled like circus animals.

If bear cubs are taken into rehab, launch them the place discovered when they’re sufficiently old to fend for themselves. If they aren’t releasable, euthanasia is preferable to a life in confinement.

Lynda Alderman, Cochrane

Zoo saves lives of orphaned animals

Sure, polar bears do belong within the wild, nevertheless, they will’t all survive within the wild. Polar bear cubs want their mom till they’re 30 months outdated earlier than they will survive on their very own.

Sadly, the 2 bears coming to Calgary had been orphans and so they weren’t studying life survival expertise.

Much better to be alive and in a zoo educating folks than to be put down as a “downside bear.”

Marion Chambers, Calgary