What’s your area of expertise / domain knowledge?
A shortened ski season means million$ in losses for Whistler. That said…
I’m trying to imagine the council of other small Canadian towns doing this …Estevan, Saskatchewan for example, with a set of aging coal-fired generators and services working the north end of the Bakken oil field the main employers.
They’re more inclined to drag out the “can’t make electricity when the wind don’t blow and the sun don’t shine” messaging in defense of their jobs. Messaging aside, they have a point. IRL no one is moving past any of it until the renewable sector becomes the sustainable non-carbon energy sector employing an equivalent workforce…emphasis on jobs and all that implies.
There are plenty of positive examples of progress to cling to: like SaskPower residential solar energy on-par banking, and small-medium commercial wind and solar generation; First Nations wind and solar projects; Ag sector (SK, MB, AB, MT, ND, SD, etc) zero-till, mob grazing and intentional soil building/carbon-sink efforts, and 100k and urban food growers popping up across the prairies. All in the hope that long term small efforts will add up to big change. You find similar examples across the country.
Maybe Whistler can play a legitimate role, ski resort losses notwithstanding. Whistler is among a few municipalities with a meaningful reason to sue big oil and hang a climate-change yoke on its neck. So let’s watch it play out. If it fizzles then cynicism is justified.
Question: what other climate impacted communities have a legitimate claim against the carbon energy sector — that can’t afford or don’t have the organization to sue? An effort to bring a hundred, or a thousand cases against big oil would be a big deal. Whistler could open that gate.
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