Alberta Premier Danielle Smith insisted Alberta Electric Systems Operator asked for a pause on renewables. In fact, internal emails show the AESO head was 'not comfortable' with the plan but was told to 'support the minister without reservation'
“The desire to halt the new project pipeline is a very troubling message for me, and is something we need to provide good messaging against…when we have the opportunity,” the AESO head wrote to colleagues in June 2023. Does that sound like a man who asked for the pause?
The AESO head said the renewables pause would send industry into a "tailspin," send a "closed-for-business message" and be "reputationally very challenging" for Alberta.
So. looks like the Greedy Oil Barons pulling Danielle Smiths strings have been caught in rather duplicitous behaviour... Quelle Surprise...
Episode 377 Wed, May 8, 2024, Here, We, GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Well, hel-looo Kits ‘n’ Kubs!
On Episode 377 of our show, we explore Danielle Smith reflexively lying when asked about her having claimed that the Alberta Electric System Operator was on board with her decision the impose a moratorium on renewables when the truth is AESO's CEO Mike Law was not at all on board with the pause, saying it would throw the industry into a tailspin.
Also, we talk about:
Smith's Lies: AESO
Pre-Born?!?
Abortion
Anti-Semitism
Realpolitik on Netanyahu
Realpolitik on Activism
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