[djforsberg]

Originally Posted by PhotoJim

Not to justify our level of CO2 emission, but how do we compare to, say, North Dakota? (And their climate is noticeably milder than ours.)

We don't have a lot of hydroelectric production and no nuclear production, and we live in a very cold climate with hot summers, so we are going to use a lot of energy until how we generate electricity changes. (Electric cars, in our climate, are not going to be the solution.)

I'll give the Sask Party credit for pushing nuclear early in their tenure but I feel they didn't go far enough in quelling the unsubstantiated fear of it. We should have converted the coal fired generators to natural gas long ago and we can still use a lot more wind and solar to fill in the gaps.