MOST OR ALL OF OUR POLITICIANS ARE SO IGNORANT THEY SHOULD NOT EVEN VOICE THE WORD ENERGY, LET ALONE FORMULATE ENERGY POLICY - REPRISE
The lost opportunity cost when you have imbecilic politicians who have no scientific skills thinking they can drive energy policy.
MOST OR ALL OF OUR POLITICIANS ARE SO IGNORANT THEY SHOULD NOT EVEN VOICE THE WORD ENERGY, LET ALONE FORMULATE ENERGY POLICY - REPRISE
When I was about 40, I initiated and proposed policies that were successfully implemented that revitalized the Canadian Oil sands industry. The result was over one trillion dollars in benefits to the Canadian and Alberta economies. These policies included new Tax terms, new Crown Royalty terms, and production increases that reduced operating costs from $18 to $12 per barrel. I included these changes in a Strategic Plan that was successfully implemented, 500,000 jobs were created across the country, Canada became the 4th largest oil producer in the world, and for many years had the strongest economy of the G8 countries.
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All of my positive oil sands policies were since destroyed by ignorant politicians. We are still the #4 oil producer in the world, but major growth has stopped, downtown Calgary is empty and our educated kids have to travel elsewhere to get good jobs.
In the 1990’s I published articles in major Alberta newspapers strongly advising against the move to energy deregulation, which could only increase electricity costs. Since then, electricity costs have needlessly increased ~tenfold and grid reliability has seriously declined.
In 2002 my eminent co-authors and I published strong advice that there was no real
Global Warming (Climate) crisis and that Green Energy would be a costly debacle. All our statements have proved correct. Globally, many trillions of dollars have been wasted, and many millions of lives have been squandered.
These are the disastrous results when ignorant politicians who are climate-and-energy imbeciles set energy policy. The cost to Alberta totals many billions of dollars squandered and many thousands of jobs lost.
It is now time for a reckoning of accounts.
Every Alberta MLA on both sides of the legislature should forfeit their pensions for their role in these energy debacles. Some of them should go to jail.
Albertans have paid a heavy price for the energy-incompetence of our politicians.
It’s time our politicians shared the blame and the burden for the harm they’ve done.
ALLAN MACRAE FEB 25, 2024
A decade ago the Harper government were seeking input for their new Budget. I wrote them through my Calgary Centre MP and recommended a 100% CCA rate for manufacturing, to revitalize the Quebec and Ontario economies They then decided on a 50% CCA rate for manufacturing, which was not nearly as good as 100% but better than nothing.
My vision was that IF Canadian provinces could hold the line on electricity costs, we could attract a significant share of the world-class German manufacturing industry that was even then being driven out of Germany by excessive power costs, due to the Climate scam.
Germany and Britain were rapidly making electricity unaffordable due to the installation of excessive amounts of intermittent wind power.
Unfortunately, most of our Canadian politicians were almost-as-stupid as the Germans and Brits, and took costly, foolish steps to install excessive wind power, driving up our electricity costs and making us less globally competitive.
IF we could punch the UNDO button on Alberta Electricity Deregulation and return our grid to it’s 1990’s counterpart, with power costs just 10% or 20% of our current Alberta rates, we could have attracted a significant portion of Germany’s world-class manufacturing capabilities and infrastructure.
That result would comprise hundreds of millions of capital invested in Canadian manufacturing and a major revitalization of that industry.
That is the lost opportunity cost when you have imbecilic politicians who have no scientific skills but think they can drive energy policy.
Most or all of our politicians are so ignorant they should not even voice the word ENERGY, let alone formulate Energy Policy,
Regards, Allan MacRae
I sent this open letter 11 years ago to Britain’s climate czar - she was far too stupid to listen. Now it has all happened, just as predicted. [Insert strong expletive here].
AN OPEN LETTER TO BARONESS VERMA, BRITISH UNDERSECRETARY FOR ENERGY
By Allan MacRae, October 31, 2013
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So here is my real concern:
IF the Sun does indeed drive temperature, as I suspect, Baroness Verma, then you and your colleagues on both sides of the House may have brewed the perfect storm.
You are claiming that global cooling will NOT happen, AND you have crippled your energy systems with excessive reliance on ineffective grid-connected “green energy” schemes.
I suggest that global cooling probably WILL happen within the next decade or sooner, and Britain will get colder.
I also suggest that the IPCC and the Met Office have NO track record of successful prediction (or “projection”) of global temperature and thus have no scientific credibility.
I suggest that winter deaths will increase in the UK as cooling progresses.
I suggest that Excess Winter Mortality, the British rate of which is about double the rate in the Scandinavian countries, should provide an estimate of this unfolding tragedy.
MacRae’s 2013 Open Letter was verified in 2021, with extreme cold winter forecasts and a green-energy-crippled electrical grid in Britain and Germany:
EUROPE IS SWITCHING BACK TO COAL TO SURVIVE BLEAK WINTER
GWPF International September 25, 2021
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The European energy crisis deepened in 2022, especially in Britain and German which over-relied on intermittent wind power generation.
https://calgarysun.com/opinion/alberta-could-have-a-wealth-fund-like-norways-if-ottawa-stopped-picking-its-pockets
SMITH: ALBERTA IS A FINANCIAL DISGRACE. WE NEED TO HIT THE RESET BUTTON
Author of the article:: Danielle Smith
Published Sep 04, 2020
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/smith-alberta-is-a-financial-disgrace-we-need-to-hit-the-reset-button/
The above article was written by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith in 2020 when she was a broadcaster. It is harsh, but it doesn't go nearly far enough.
Alberta politicians of all stripes have squandered our wealth and destroyed growth in our economy by the most remarkable incompetence.
We had the strongest economy in the G8 countries for decades. Then Ralph Klein ruined our electricity system through "de-regulation", actually green nonsense and corruption.
Then Ed Stelmach destroyed growth in the oil sands by killing my Royalty system. That is why downtown Calgary offices are empty and our educated kids have to leave to get good jobs.
Then Rachel Notley converted our coal-fired power plants to natural gas, driving up costs, reducing grid reliability and doing nothing for the environment. Air quality in Alberta is affected 1000 times more by forest fires than coal plants.
If we had even moderately competent governments, Alberta would have a sovereign wealth fund bigger than Norway's - trillions of dollars have been wasted, much of it supporting idle people who chose not to work.
A few colleagues and I created the decades-long prosperity that we enjoyed until recently - all our idiot politicians needed to do was "leave it alone"! We are governed by imbeciles.
Regards, Allan MacRae, Calgary
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