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Re:Equivalent of 97% of Scotland’s 2020 electricity consumpt... by einpoklum on Friday March 26, 2021 @09:18AM (#26591752)
> all I hear in Canada is "oh the job, oh the job, what will happen to the jobs...???"

That's your corporate control of mainstream media, I would think.

And not only is there lots of work in renewable energy, but we've just gone through a year in which many large economies simply "bankrolled" a large unemployed fraction of the population, and the sky didn't fall: Prices didn't shoot up, no runs on banks, nothing like that. So the Canadian state, had it so wished, could back the transition with some money-printing if push came to shove. ... if it were so inclined.

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Re:Equivalent of 97% of Scotland’s 2020 electricity consumpt... by neom on Friday March 26, 2021 @09:27AM (#26591851)
The only mainstream media I consume is occasionally CBC. The sentiment I hear is from high school friends in Northwestern Ontario and folks I know out in Alberta and BC. In my personal opinion, we already have lots of crown corps in Canada, using them to put solar farms in Nunavut and offshore wind generation on the East and West coasts are just fine by me, faster we transition that way the better as far as I'm concerned.
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