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Letters, Aug. 9: It's rural Alberta's flip to sort out local weather change

Hundreds of thousands of acres of agricultural lands have been was gravel township roads, paved roads and highways, and metropolis areas to serve rural residents and metropolis slickers for the previous 150 years.

I’m fairly certain that present, accredited and deliberate areas for wind and photo voltaic farms are a fraction of the agricultural lands already “stolen” by rural residents.

Decommissioning, web site contaminant cleanup and land reclamation (with prior financial deposit) have been normal Alberta authorities allow necessities for the reason that early Nineteen Nineties underneath laws administered by numerous departments — except for oil and fuel properly websites.

Cities have already accomplished their justifiable share towards decreasing greenhouse fuel emissions, however now want the co-operation of rural municipalities to cut back the general provincial footprint. Wind and photo voltaic farms could also be esthetically displeasing to rural residents, however so are their native township roads, electrical transmission strains and the occasional ugly-looking farmstead constructing they take without any consideration. 

Kurt J. Hansen, Calgary

Double normal on inexperienced power

Re: Alberta publicizes pause on renewable power initiatives, citing rural considerations, Aug. 4

Danielle Smith’s current pause on renewable power initiatives has revealed a damning double normal for the UCP occasion: Housing disaster? Lower the purple tape and make it simpler to construct suburbs. 

Economic system disaster? Lower the purple tape and make it simpler to construct pipelines. 

Local weather disaster? Sorry, for bureaucratic causes we will’t have windmills constructed too quick. 

Mark Taylor, Calgary

Saving farmland is true transfer

There is no such thing as a downside with pausing when a lot is at stake. Travelling across the province you see farmland now coated with generators and photo voltaic panels. The planet is suffocating with individuals it can’t feed, and we’re one of many greatest producers however are decreasing farmland.

Dangerous selections will come to hang-out us. France produces loads of power with nuclear. Why can’t we do the identical and reclaim our farmland?

Louise Bonneau, Calgary

No parade for pension plans

Re: The UCP’s Alberta pension drive is revived and forging forward, Opinion, Aug. 3

I’m reminded of former premier Ralph Klein’s musing that, moderately than seeking to persuade the general public of the necessity for some authorities ideological initiative, he and his authorities of the day merely tried to “discover a parade and get in entrance of it.”

With solely 21 per cent of Albertans in help of a provincial pension plan, I discover it baffling that the UCP authorities is hanging on to this like “a canine with a bone.”

Premier Danielle Smith, there isn’t a “parade” to steer right here. Please spend your time and assets on addressing health-care points, inflation, crime and public security, our power transition, habit points and the schooling wants of our kids.

Peter Teppler, Calgary