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Re:Air pollution over Alberta oil sands up to 6,300% higher ... by obsoletehippo on Friday January 26, 2024 @07:58AM (#39142118)
So your faith in the competence of government oversight is what primarily prevents you from believing this piece of research is correct? That's an unusual stance for HN. :-) Both the companies and the government obviously have a financial/economic interest in not finding this out, if it's true. I find it pretty easy to believe, and I am a fairly pro-govt lefty type.
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Re:Air pollution over Alberta oil sands up to 6,300% higher ... by ActionHank on Friday January 26, 2024 @08:07AM (#39142198)
Even the government (federal) didn't trust these numbers. Provincial government is heavily biased towards supporting anything related to fossil fuels and their political leadership deny climate change as often as possible.
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Re:Air pollution over Alberta oil sands up to 6,300% higher ... by itsoktocry on Friday January 26, 2024 @10:26AM (#39143711)
>Provincial government is heavily biased towards supporting anything related to fossil fuels and their political leadership deny climate change as often as possible.

Fighting against stupid climate change policies isn't "denying climate change". Policies like, I don't know, clamping down on our oil extraction and pipelines locally, and instead buying the resources from adversarial countries.

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Re:Air pollution over Alberta oil sands up to 6,300% higher ... by eldaisfish on Friday January 26, 2024 @11:50AM (#39144758)
Are you able to point to legislation from the current Alberta government that does the following - one - accept that climate change is happening and worsening, and two - that the Alberta oil sands are making the problem worse?
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Re:Air pollution over Alberta oil sands up to 6,300% higher ... by itsoktocry on Friday January 26, 2024 @10:22AM (#39143667)
>So your faith in the competence of government oversight is what primarily prevents you from believing this piece of research is correct? That's an unusual stance for HN. :-)

Yeah, it feels strange!

But the numbers are just too drastically different that it's impossible for me to reconcile.

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