Green Waste Sinking Canada

[blackpowder]

Suncor's Millenium operation! Real pretty aint it!

U need to update your Greenpeace notes.
Of the 142,000 km2, barely 2.6% touched in any way.

[chuckChuck]

Read it folks instead of falling for the lies about land use and renewable energy in Alberta!

Double standard Danny is all concerned about solar and wind and land use but not the impact of the oil industry? She might as well be a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry!

She has closed Alberta for business she doesn't like! What a hippo crit!

"Alberta's utilities regulator has released a report saying the province's booming renewables industry poses little threat to its agriculture or the environment.
"Assuming all renewable development locates on [some of Alberta's best] land, the percentage of [such] agricultural land loss is estimated to be less than one per cent by 2041," says the Alberta Utilities Commission report, released Wednesday.
The commission takes a similar view of concerns that solar and wind facilities could leave landowners and the public with big bills for reclamation at the end of their lives.

"Compared to some other forms of industrial development, renewable power plant projects have well-understood and relatively contained reclamation risks," it says. "The risks associated with groundwater and off-site contamination are generally low."
The report is the first of two the United Conservative government asked the commission to produce as part of its inquiry into the province's booming solar and wind power industry. The release of the report comes shortly after the government removed its six-month moratorium on approvals for new renewables generation.
The current report deals with agricultural and environmental impacts, as well as funding for reclamation and effects on what the government has called "pristine viewscapes."

It found that renewable power is much less of a threat to the province's farmland than other forms of energy development and urban spread.
"From 2019 to 2021, the largest driver of agricultural land loss was expansion of pipelines and industrial sites," it says. "Other key drivers… include urban residential development, mines and wells, and roads."

The report said the proliferation of wind and solar projects will likely be more concentrated in some parts of the province than others.
The report notes that the vast majority of wind and solar sites are located on poorer land. It also points out that wind farms use about five per cent of their lease area, leaving the rest available for grazing or suitable crops.
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[AlbertaFarmer5]

"From 2019 to 2021, the largest driver of agricultural land loss was expansion of pipelines and industrial sites,"
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Do you remember the last time you brought up this ill-informed article? And I ridiculed you for your concern about buried pipelines consuming farmland?

The half section I am seeding this morning has 16 buried utilities on it. 15 of which are pipelines.
Total loss of farmland to these buried utilities is zero acres.
Thanks to global warming, there isn't much permafrost around here, so pipelines tend to be underground.

But you can go ahead and post the picture of an above ground pipeline in fort McMurray where there is no farmland again to support your case if you want.