kelownabomberfan

where is the accountability? These farms keep getting set up and horribly under-producing, and yet no one ever reports this, or if they do, it's dismissed as "Sun News? WTF?!"

LOL - ok fine, shoot the messenger. I get the feeling that no matter what I link I show you it will be poo-pooed. I wish the mainstream media wasn't so married to the narrative about wind farms being a good thing, without ever talking about the down-side, which is extreme, and well documented. Wind farms are really awful. http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/the-untold-ontario-green-energy-scandal-is-that-its-devastating-our-rural-areas

Thanks Mark. I just get a paywall unfortunately.

have to agree. Very optimistic about our defence this year. Offense, not so much until I see our O-Line giving our QB's the time they need.

Do you have a link to that? I read about how wind power is now very cheap in Alberta, but in reality they are just hiding the subsidies in different ways. There is no way alternating power sources can be cheaper than a constant source of power like Hydro. It just doesn't work that way. And the problem with wind, as Ontario has found out, is that it mostly blows at night, when it's not really needed, leading to having to pay for the excess loading of the system. Wind has been a disastrous investment for the province of Ontario, as it's proven to be everywhere it's been tried. I was in Albany Western Australia a few years ago and everyone was complaining about the cost of the wind farm they had there. It generated no where near the power they were promised, and at all the wrong times when it did. Not to mention the bird kills, which I know wind power advocates try to play down by posting stats of birds killed by buildings and cats, but these are rare birds, migratory raptors and eagles.

Justin Holland 2.0.

so what's the deal with Noeller?

You should have stopped there and let it be somewhat of a mystery, rather than continue and remove all doubt.

I saw somewhere that McKenna was launching some $500 million fund for renewable energy. Maybe Google it, if you are interested.

I honestly believe that May is saying these things knowing full well no refinery is going to be built in Canada. If suddenly there was a move to build one, I would bet that she would flip-flop on this issue in two seconds. But only because the Tides Foundation told her to do so.

I am actually a bigger fan of solar than I am of wind power. I just don't see solar being able to meet demand for power. Alternating power sources like wind, solar and tidal are just never going to be able to compete in terms of price with nuclear, hydro and gas cogen. And you can do an Ontario and blow your brains out at the taxpayers' expense, but that's not a long-term strategy for success.

I honestly don't trust her or the Greens. She's at the mercy of her foreign interests that are funding her.

I hear your point on this. Where would you build it? And would you have Elizabeth May and David Suzuki chaining themselves to fences to block workers from building it? Just curious. It's easy to say "just build it" but you wind up dealing with the same band of lunatics no matter what you do. Me personally, if we're really interested in "green power", should be looking seriously at nuclear technology. We have so much uranium, let's use it rather than just handing it to the Chinese.

Yes, part of the problem is that the BC Liberals moved pretty far right, and then back to the center, and so have allowed the Conservatives back into the game. Just enough to sewer the BC Liberals unfortunately. I don't get how the far right here doesn't get it - if you split the vote on the right we just end up with the NDP in power, and then you get this mess.

yeah it's been a nightmare out here. The NDP are falling down all over the place and making us the laughingstock of Canada. I would agree that it was time for a change in provincial government as the BC Liberals were becoming really stagnant. But this is like blowing your head off with a shot-gun to cure a tooth-ache.

The BC Liberals won a minority in the election. They were one seat short of a majority. The BC Liberals then formed a government, and lost a non-confidence vote to the NDP and Greens, who together formed the government with the approval of the lieutenant governor, via a taxpayer-funded "secretariat". The NDP and Greens received a lot of protest votes, and no one fore-saw the awful potential future of these two bozo parties forming a government together, as it was probably too horrific for most people to imagine. But now we are stuck with it. Consequences of voting emotionally rather than logically. So to my point - the BC Conservatives ran 4 candidates in the election. Why no one knows. All they did was split the vote on the right in 4 ridings. One of these ridings was Comox, where the Liberals lost by 100 votes to a real lunatic NDP candidate. The Conservative candidate got over 2,000 votes, most of which would have gone to the BC Liberals if they hadn't run a candidate. The Liberals would have had a majority, and we would have a government that was intent on getting the pipeline built, without interference or taxpayer dollar wasting court challenges. Elizabeth May would be in hoosgow right now where she belongs. There were also rumblings that three traditional BC Liberal ridings went NDP this time because the NDP promised to block Uber from coming to BC. Not sure how accurate that info is.

The BC government is controlled by the LEAP faction of the NDP, and of course, they need the Greens to stay in power so really the Greens are running the show. And that's a scary place to be.

on behalf of the people of BC I apologize. The government we have now in place did not win the election and is representing a minority of the electorate that is radical and can't do math. BC is such a screwed up place. If the Conservatives had had the brains to not run a candidate in the riding of Comox none of this would be happening right now.

Pretty sure eh? What does he sneak into his locker and look at his pay stubs?

And I suggest you can kiss my ass. I hope Simonise is the real deal but we shall see. Quit giving us Kelowna fans a hard time. We are doing the best we can from afar.

yup we will be lucky to get a 2nd rounder in my opinion.

oh ok, fair enough. Most players get to play in exhibition so not sure why this is a big milestone, but ok, let's see what he can do.

I think the main appeal of Henoc was his passport.

not sure what's the obsession with moving Myers. I get it that we have to lose a few guys for cap reasons, and Enstrom is definitely one of those we lose. Not sure who else? Buff/Little/Wheeler one day will have to go too.