2007-08-18

The Pembina Institute are idiots

So the left-wing loonies over at the Pembina Institute is complaining because Alberta has a cap of 900 MW of wind power. (Since wind power is unreliable, the province feels its wise not to place greater than 10% of total electrical generation on such a source). They want the cap removed, as they feel that there are up to 3000MW of power which can be generated by interested parties.

Since, after all, Alberta is already right up tight against the cap almost halfway to the cap... that's right: ~450MW of wind power is currently being generated. If there was such interest in more wind power, dontcha think somebody would have used the existing room to play with?