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Coal accounted for 80 per cent of Alberta’s electricity grid in the early 2000s and it still amounted to 60 per cent just 10 years ago. When phasing out coal was just an idea being batted around, many said it couldn’t be done. This is not dissimilar to the rhetoric today around decarbonizing the grid. But Alberta’s experience phasing out coal shows environmental progress of this magnitude is possible.

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[–] can@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Meanwhile in Nova Scotia...

[–] Beaver@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago

Dang it, Canada still has a coal addiction.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

NS's power generation is a. Bunch of micro-plants, which lend themselves more easily to upgrade and transformation.

Just gotta get on it.

The fact that their entire infrastructure - roads, water, power, some sewer, data - is all long thin media and throughways twisting along through granite and trees, makes 'status quo' maintenance hard, harder still depending on the leadership, and makes upgrades a hard sell.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

Not to mention it's run by a monopoly that prefer to only fix when broken over pro-active maintenance