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For the first time in more than 150 years, Alberta’s electricity is coal free
(www.theglobeandmail.com)
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Alberta declared solar panels "ugly" so they wont be installing them anymore.
Alberta said that putting it on prime agricultural land needed some restrictions, and rightly so. The amount of good farmland that's under solar panels now in south and central is disconcerting. There's no end of shit land in Alberta that's better suited to solar panels anyway.
It goes to show how little they actually care about capitalism. If farmland is more productive (makes more money) producing solar, then capitalism would say turn it into solar.
They're literally stealing money from the farmers.