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1,000 jobs will be created by $1.2B green energ

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1,000 jobs will be created by $1.2B green energy partnerships between companies, First Nations


Business | 207443 hits | Dec 18 10:08 am | Posted by: DrCaleb
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Five new green energy collaborations between private companies and Alberta First Nations are expected to create 1,000 jobs and enough renewable electricity to power nearly 300,000 homes.

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  1. by avatar martin14
    Tue Dec 18, 2018 7:04 pm
    1,000 jobs for $1.2 billion ?
    What an incredible waste of money.


    It's like Ontario levels of stupidity. :lol:

  2. by avatar llama66
    Tue Dec 18, 2018 7:23 pm
    That's only 1.2 million invested per job. Sounds perfectly fine to me. /s

  3. by avatar martin14
    Tue Dec 18, 2018 9:42 pm
    Homeowners with solar panels are 'giving their excess power to the grid for free' after government closes energy payment scheme

    The Business Department has announced the closure of the 'export tariff'
    It currently pays householders for excess power that is fed back into the grid
    Opponents warned that ending the tariff would leave householders who install panels from April having to give away their power to energy companies free

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech ... APPED.html


    The government giveth, the government taketh away...

    biggest gang in the house.

  4. by avatar BeaverFever
    Wed Dec 19, 2018 2:10 am
    "llama66" said
    That's only 1.2 million invested per job. Sounds perfectly fine to me. /s


    It�s not a make-work jobs program it�s an energy program that just happens to employ 1000 people. They didn�t spend the money to employ people it to generate green energy.

    Don�t follow martins lead he�s got the worst instincts and he�s never right.

  5. by avatar N_Fiddledog
    Wed Dec 19, 2018 3:37 am
    I prefer this title:

    Liberals Using Tax Payer Dollars For Re-Election Campaign � Promise $1.6B In �Shut Up Money� To Energy Sector They Destroyed

    More honest.

    https://www.blazingcatfur.ca/page/3/

  6. by avatar martin14
    Wed Dec 19, 2018 6:24 am
    "llama66" said
    That's only 1.2 million invested per job. Sounds perfectly fine to me. /s


    Well it's not that good, you have to factor in the cost overrun of 100-200 million,
    and the $300 million will get 'lost' doing the paperwork. :lol:

    But some Ontario chumps who also love the $50billion gas theft think this is a good idea.

  7. by avatar llama66
    Wed Dec 19, 2018 2:48 pm
    "BeaverFever" said
    That's only 1.2 million invested per job. Sounds perfectly fine to me. /s


    It�s not a make-work jobs program it�s an energy program that just happens to employ 1000 people. They didn�t spend the money to employ people it to generate green energy.

    Don�t follow martins lead he�s got the worst instincts and he�s never right.
    It's still $1.2 million dollars per "job created" thats the simple math. Why are we spending so much, where are they working? Space?. Green Energy or not there is better ways to spend 1.2 billion dollars,

  8. by avatar herbie
    Wed Dec 19, 2018 6:57 pm
    Sure, they could offer to buy $1.5 billion of Elon Musk's giant batteries if he built them in Blairmore or Coalmont.
    Create jobs, revive a town and maximize those huge windfarms.

  9. by avatar DrCaleb
    Wed Dec 19, 2018 7:03 pm
    "llama66" said
    That's only 1.2 million invested per job. Sounds perfectly fine to me. /s


    It�s not a make-work jobs program it�s an energy program that just happens to employ 1000 people. They didn�t spend the money to employ people it to generate green energy.

    Don�t follow martins lead he�s got the worst instincts and he�s never right.
    It's still $1.2 million dollars per "job created" thats the simple math. Why are we spending so much, where are they working? Space?. Green Energy or not there is better ways to spend 1.2 billion dollars,

    What is the lifetime of the equipment? To know if it's of value, you have to know how long these people will be employed. Is 50 years enough for that 1.2 Million? Will wages, taxes, profit on the power produced cover the cost?

    Plus, it's 1000 direct and non-spinoff jobs, when we need jobs.

  10. by avatar llama66
    Wed Dec 19, 2018 7:32 pm
    Fair enough, I just think that's a lot of money.

  11. by avatar martin14
    Wed Dec 19, 2018 7:43 pm
    "DrCaleb" said
    What is the lifetime of the equipment? To know if it's of value, you have to know how long these people will be employed. Is 50 years enough for that 1.2 Million? Will wages, taxes, profit on the power produced cover the cost?

    Plus, it's 1000 direct and non-spinoff jobs, when we need jobs.


    Solar panels never last more than 20 years, so you can cut your math by more than half.

    Government paid for or sponsored jobs are just not jobs.
    It simply more tax payer money being shoveled around.

    Imagine, spending government money, to give to a worker, so to deduct some of
    that government money, to give back to the government, to make it look like
    someone has a job.

    Nice levels of circular stupidity, with the taxpayer picking up the bill.

  12. by avatar DrCaleb
    Wed Dec 19, 2018 7:53 pm
    "martin14" said
    What is the lifetime of the equipment? To know if it's of value, you have to know how long these people will be employed. Is 50 years enough for that 1.2 Million? Will wages, taxes, profit on the power produced cover the cost?

    Plus, it's 1000 direct and non-spinoff jobs, when we need jobs.


    Solar panels never last more than 20 years, so you can cut your math by more than half.

    Most of the projects are wind power. Alberta is a crappy place to set up solar farms. But the calculation is still true. Companies don't enter into projects like this unless they generate profit.

    https://medicinehatnews.com/news/local- ... y-auction/

    And Alberta did the opposite of Ontario, we had a power auction about a year ago, and the winners were mostly renewable companies whos' price drove the price per kilowatt down.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/ ... -1.4446746

    "martin14" said

    Government paid for or sponsored jobs are just not jobs.
    It simply more tax payer money being shoveled around.

    Imagine, spending government money, to give to a worker, so to deduct some of
    that government money, to give back to the government, to make it look like
    someone has a job.

    Nice levels of circular stupidity, with the taxpayer picking up the bill.


    If that were so, then how do government employees survive? ;)

  13. by avatar martin14
    Wed Dec 19, 2018 8:24 pm
    "DrCaleb" said
    If that were so, then how do government employees survive? ;)


    By stealing money from every taxpayer, to give to a few.


    Government programs with government subsidies.... don't work.

    They don't work because they distort the market.

    If the companies only show up when the government hands out the money,

    it's because they can't do it with prices in the marketplace now.

    And it will never result in a lower price for the people.



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