Comments on: No price too high for appeasing climate alarmists http://lce.folc.ca/2010/11/06/no-price-too-high-for-appeasing-climate-alarmists/ In support of residents, business and friends of Lamont County Tue, 22 May 2012 05:06:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Walter Schneider http://lce.folc.ca/2010/11/06/no-price-too-high-for-appeasing-climate-alarmists/#comment-406 Walter Schneider Sat, 06 Nov 2010 16:45:42 +0000 http://lce.folc.ca/2010/11/06/no-price-too-high-for-appeasing-climate-alarmists/#comment-406 The front page of today’s Edmonton Journal carries an article that castigates Alberta’s reluctant performance in regard to helping to blow CO2 up Mother Earth’s derriere and thereby doing nothing more than an agonizingly slow part in doing the impossible: turning down the global CO2 thermostat (a billion dollars a project). The author of the article, Graham Thompson, will without a doubt have a lot of egg on his face when the current alarmism of the day has run its course. He and his editorial board should look for a good buy on tissue paper to lay in when the wiping begins, just a few years down the road. Graham Thompson complains that at the rate the Alberta Government is spending our money on what he obviously sees as a worth-while undertaking to keep the globe from burning to a crisp, it will be another 6,000 years before all of the $2 billion promised to be thrown at the CCS insanity (although in his eyes an insanity it is not) will be spent. By his figuring only about $288.80 a day has been spent so far of taxpayers money. It seems that he cannot wait to see to have that multiplied by a factor of ten-thousand, which is about exactly what the result will be when we begin to go full-bore on the CCS insanity alone on Shell’s CCS project. Curiously, for someone so intent on castigating the Alberta Government for its laggardly performance in helping to turn down the global thermostat, Graham Thompson stands out amongst parties so concerned by ignoring the $700 million dollars which will be Alberta’s contribution to Shell’s CCS Project now in the process of being launched and to be completed in short order. (See the commentary at the beginning of this posting.) Shell and its staff would be well advised to drag their heels as much as they can on “their” (in actuality the government’s) intention to blow in excess of a billion dollars in their attempt to buy indulgences with which to gain concessions through appeasing government- and media-alarmists. At least they can make an informed decision and do the right thing, while consumers, taxpayers, and their children cannot do but pay for such white elephants and suffer the consequences. Read the Edmonton Journal article: <a href="http://www.edmontonjournal.com/technology/Province%2Bwill%2Bneed%2Byears%2Bspend%2Bcarbon%2Bcapture%2Bmoney%2Bcurrent%2Brate/3788023/story.html rel="nofollow">Province will need 6,000 years to spend $2B carbon-capture money at its current rate</a> No, it won’t. The money slated for CCS will be piddled away much faster, at a rate of about a billion dollars a year. If only that were not so. The front page of today’s Edmonton Journal carries an article that castigates Alberta’s reluctant performance in regard to helping to blow CO2 up Mother Earth’s derriere and thereby doing nothing more than an agonizingly slow part in doing the impossible: turning down the global CO2 thermostat (a billion dollars a project).

The author of the article, Graham Thompson, will without a doubt have a lot of egg on his face when the current alarmism of the day has run its course. He and his editorial board should look for a good buy on tissue paper to lay in when the wiping begins, just a few years down the road.

Graham Thompson complains that at the rate the Alberta Government is spending our money on what he obviously sees as a worth-while undertaking to keep the globe from burning to a crisp, it will be another 6,000 years before all of the $2 billion promised to be thrown at the CCS insanity (although in his eyes an insanity it is not) will be spent.

By his figuring only about $288.80 a day has been spent so far of taxpayers money. It seems that he cannot wait to see to have that multiplied by a factor of ten-thousand, which is about exactly what the result will be when we begin to go full-bore on the CCS insanity alone on Shell’s CCS project.

Curiously, for someone so intent on castigating the Alberta Government for its laggardly performance in helping to turn down the global thermostat, Graham Thompson stands out amongst parties so concerned by ignoring the $700 million dollars which will be Alberta’s contribution to Shell’s CCS Project now in the process of being launched and to be completed in short order. (See the commentary at the beginning of this posting.)

Shell and its staff would be well advised to drag their heels as much as they can on “their” (in actuality the government’s) intention to blow in excess of a billion dollars in their attempt to buy indulgences with which to gain concessions through appeasing government- and media-alarmists. At least they can make an informed decision and do the right thing, while consumers, taxpayers, and their children cannot do but pay for such white elephants and suffer the consequences.

Read the Edmonton Journal article: Province will need 6,000 years to spend $2B carbon-capture money at its current rate

No, it won’t. The money slated for CCS will be piddled away much faster, at a rate of about a billion dollars a year. If only that were not so.

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