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Electrical buses a shock
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Contemplating that just about 90 per cent of electrical energy in Alberta is produced from fossil fuels – roughly 36 per cent from coal and 54 per cent from pure fuel – and solely 10 per cent is produced from renewables, comparable to wind, hydro, and biomass, there isn’t any environmental justification for the virtually half-billion in expenditures being thought-about by metropolis council to purchase electrical buses.
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Equally, anybody shopping for a Tesla or different electrical car in Alberta is just an uninformed advantage signaller with extra money than brains.
And don’t get me began on the GHG-emitting e-bikes now beginning to dominate metropolis and park pathways.
Mike Priaro, Calgary
The place do the charges finish?
I logged into my Telus account and on the primary line was a discover that beginning Oct. 17, a 1.5% Credit score Card Processing Price (plus tax) will apply to bank card funds.
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Oh my, is TELUS not making sufficient hundreds of thousands to pay executives that they want this further reimbursement from its prospects?!
Ignore the previous at our peril
Re: No apology from Danielle Smith over feedback on discrimination of unvaccinated folks, Letter, Oct. 13
Milada Rysan wonders ‘why give a lot time to individuals who begin mentioning all types of points and rehash all types of previous and current wrongs?’ The place does she recommend we draw the road in historic wrongs? The Holocaust? Residential colleges? Genocides? Atrocities at present being dedicated in Ukraine?
When people, particularly our leaders, downplay these horrors with reckless and harmful rhetoric they need to and should be held accountable. If we don’t study from the previous, we’re doomed to repeat it, and it seems humanity has a behavior of step and repeat.
Rob Butler, Calgary
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An excessive amount of criticism
Re: Horrifying? Let’s not exaggerate, Letters, Oct. 18
Your incessant damaging protection of Premier Smith is horrifying, to make use of a letter author’s phrases. Any semi-intelligent particular person would know that Smith was referring to a newly discriminated cross-section of Canadian residents by our personal authorities. Unprecedented in fashionable instances.
Your union/NDP/left-leaning bias is displaying a tasteless quantity of leg.
H. (Hart) Mailandt, Calgary
Rejecting densification will value us
Re: The unintended penalties in city planning; Present neighbourhoods are struggling amid improvement, writes Richard White, Opinion, Oct. 8
The latest debate about densification has induced many to oppose any type of multi-family housing throughout the interior metropolis. Whereas considerations a couple of lack of required parking for brand new developments are legitimate, most different arguments come all the way down to “not in my yard.”
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Britain is stricken by an absence of improvement and development, which is essentially induced attributable to this mentality. The plans in Calgary contain two- to three-storey duplexes or row housing, not condo towers.
A report from 2009 by the Metropolis of Calgary discovered that whole infrastructure prices have been about -33 per cent cheaper in the long run following a densification development situation vs. a dispersed development situation. Working prices would even be -14 per cent much less. Increasing farther out prices taxpayers extra for companies like hearth and water to constructing roadways.
Whereas newer communities are wanted to assist hold housing costs inexpensive, rejecting all densification goes to value taxpayers much more.
Brett Dibble, Calgary
