Can Alberta clean up its energy production?The Pembina Institute released a major report today outlining a strategy for Alberta to switch its main source of electricity from coal to cleaner renewable energy within 20 years. Pembina's Jeff Bell and Tim Weis will be presenting and discussing the report tonight at an event hosted by the University of Alberta Energy Club.
Where & When
Humanities Centre Lecture 1, University of Alberta
January 14, 2009 at 6:30 p.m.
Only need 4 reactors and one run of river project on the Slave River to green electricity in this province without staking everything on the fluctuating price of natural gas or the speed of the wind.
ReplyDeleteWas there anything about transmission lines, because that's the real make or break. It doesn't matter how the electrical power is created (sun, wind, nuclear, hamster) getting it from A to B causes a problem around the world.
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