tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608187347082258635.post5811374552808048325..comments2023-06-24T04:31:55.215-04:00Comments on The Orange Tory: The NDP and Leaping into the UnknownSJLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16507376219360029032noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608187347082258635.post-20651872646586254822016-04-13T22:28:16.997-04:002016-04-13T22:28:16.997-04:00I think you backed into a greater point. The Leap ...I think you backed into a greater point. The Leap Manifesto is inherently an urban agenda. There is no vision how to serve places like Yellowknife, there cannot be any high speed rail between Edmonton and Yellowknife, hell there isn't even low speed rail between the two! The railway ends at Hay River. What if NIMBYs oppose the rail link, the Leap Manifesto says it should be stopped. <br /><br />Despite the calls that Leap is a grassroots notion it feels very top-down to me, which pushes out some of the groups you have referenced. <br /><br />Even if we switched to an entirely renewable economy we still need oil for plastics and other materials. Despite casting itself as a forward-looking vision it feels short-sighted and myopic to me. SJLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16507376219360029032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4608187347082258635.post-64553226491741894732016-04-12T22:01:25.206-04:002016-04-12T22:01:25.206-04:00Great points, here are a few of my own:
-Regardi...<br />Great points, here are a few of my own: <br /><br />-Regarding high speed rail, let's say that the government builds a high speed train from Edmonton, near where I live, to Yellowknife in the NWT. What's that train going to run on? Wouldn't it be fossil fuels? And isn't the construction and running of the train going to disrupt the big wildlife corridor that cuts through the NWT? <br /><br />Also, how will we reach places like Iqaluit or any community in Newfoundland? What will power the planes and boats that we use to transport people and goods to and from so many isolated locales? <br /><br />-In Alberta, we have more and more Indigenous people getting involved in the oil and gas industry not just as workers, but as entrepreneurs. What happens to them if we dump fossil fuel development and use altogether? How about the B.C. First Nation that was issuing its own harvesting permits to lumber companies, as Art Manuel described in "Unsettling Canada"? <br /><br />-What happens to all the working class people whose livelihoods depend on oil and gas work? It didn't just benefit Alberta-workers came from across Canada to send money home. What's going to replace that work, and generate the tax revenues needed to finance the Leap Manifesto's vision? The green energy industry, if not in its infancy, is still only in its terrible twos. Jared Milnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13893936894329476190noreply@blogger.com