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c/canadapolitics · by grte@lemmy.ca · 3y

Canada set to end many fossil-fuel subsidies soon | Winnipeg Free Press

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/greenpage/2023/07/14/canada-set-to-end-domestic-subsidies-for-unabated-fossil-fuel-production

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BlueN1te@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Can't wait to hear all the folks here in Alberta whinging about gas prices going up cause of this. 😑🔫

Godort@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Fuck, talking to my father(a man who just described the CBC as too woke earlier this week) about this is going to be rough.

cxtinac@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3y

Think of Team Lemmy behind you! 👍

Mongostein@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Good. Why do we subsidize companies that gouge us while reporting record profits? Had they done this 20 years ago maybe the country wouldn’t be on fire.

masterofn001@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 3y

Had the o&g companies published their 1970's findings that their continued existence meant the end of ours, maybe the whole planet wouldn't be, either.

cxtinac@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I hate the word "soon".

We've been saying "soon" for decades. Just rip the bandaid off & fscking do it!

Incrementalism will literally be the death of us - by wild fire or drowning.

SymbolicLink@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 3y

Wait what do you mean?

Its only all the qualified experts and scientists (AKA nerds) who think that climate change will end us all.

My uncle and some oil/gas execs say otherwise 🤔

Bad_company_daps@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I'll believe it when I see it

Grimpen@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 3y

The Federal Minister making the announcement in the article specifically talks about other ways oil and gas can access other subsidies. It's just not oil & gas specific subsidies.

Raphael@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3y

Do it for all of us.

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 3y

Thank you for the archive.is link.

zephyreks@lemmy.ca · -7 pts · 3y

Environment groups want such technology excluded because they say anything that encourages continued fossil-fuel production is harmful.

Environment groups want Alberta's economy to collapse. Take the win, ffs. If companies are dumping more money into carbon capture, maybe it'll actually be useful.