To Vanessa Spicer. Good luck for you and your Party. I looked at the Candidates list but did not find you there. Keep up the good work! Best Regards C.M.

I was wondering about a Green Party option to vote for in my riding. I am in the Calgary North district #19 thank you

Oil is a concern when we burn it.

We need to conserve our forest carbon, not destroy it.

Answer will include further research in converting oil carbon into construction material. There is already progressive steps moving in this direction. Make a push to move quickly to develope this technology.

I ‘d like to communicate with/to the Green candidate Charlwood, she’s in Nelson

On behalf of the Town of Stony Plain, I am looking for an email for our candidate Daniel Birrell. Can you please share this with me?

Surgical Wait Times Reduction Act of Alberta (proposal) 1. raise carbon price to latest SCC social cost of carbon $261/tonne-CO2e 2. consumer sector implement harmonized fed/provincial carbon price, with AB getting the 261-fed(65)=196/tonne. 3. industrial sector – price every tonne 4. export BCA on fossil fuel exports

BCA = units x carbon content per unit x (carbon price of export jurisdiction – carbon price of import jurisdiction)

The combination will raise 200B / year allowing resource royalties to be saved in Heritage Trust Fund, and enough to reduce surgical wait times. Economist say don’t tax good things -like labor- tax bad things. Like GHG.

Management by Public Dashboard for Accountability: How many homeless people are there today at 5pm? Good managers have metrics, measurement methods, goals, and share the progress with stakeholders. Some metrics may need regulatory changes, for example GHG dashboards with hourly bins may need information directly from natural gas distributors contemporaneously, which they don’t currently publish. Similarly with gasoline/diesel fuel distributors and fueling stations, some extrapolation from a few measured sites may give a ‘precise’ but not accurate measure: precise in that it can be compared hour over hour and day to day, but may be off by some constant. Rather than waiting 2 years for NIR national inventory report which is accurate a contemporaneous dashboard which is not accurate but is precise would help analyze patterns and see bumps due to changes in policy or market more vividly.

I just wanted to ad a quick note as I have applied to become a candidate. “No news is bad news “ therefore anything anyone brings up about me will not hurt the party. Thanks

I just wanted to ad a quick note as I have applied to become a candidate. “No news is bad news “ therefore anything anyone brings up about me will not hurt the party. Thanks

Methane leaks > bounty – a reward for first report of a methane leak, proportional to the fine successfully collected from the perpetrator. Methane bounty hunters can find the leaks industry has no patience for.

Farmer exemptions for grain drying and barn heating > restore the carbon price and instead use OBPS output based pricing system method of recycling carbon levy revenue from farmers. Farmers would register in advance of the season if they occasionally do grain drying. Then if they dry, pay carbon price on their propane for drying, and all farmers in the grain drying registry would report their grain output, and get a share of the carbon levy revenue for grain drying based on their dryable grain output.

Similar for barn heating, by use class. For milk cows, rebates would be per unit milk. For chickens, per roaster + eggs. And so on.

This way whiner/complainer-polluters pay full carbon price -instead of scaredy pants politicians giving them exemptions based on vote counting- and start thinking about alternative methods, such as heat pumps and resistance electrical heat, or growing different crops, or selling damp crops for 2nd tier uses such as biofuel production, solar thermal and heat storage, HRV heat recovery ventilators for barns.

Will there be a candidate in Drayton Valley/Devon?

Thanks.

Voting system and climate impacts: Today’s youth will bear the brunt of climate impacts in their lifetime. Their voices should be given extra weight in voting formulas, with a weight inversely proportional to age, in particular on climate issues.

It’s great to see so many candidates. We’ll be voting for Joel Hunt as he is the candidate in our area. Good luck to all of them.

We would like to invite the Buffalo candidate, Jonathan Parks to attend our election forum for the Chinese community on April 29 at 10 am. Kindly send me an email of Jonathan Parks so that we can send the invitation letter. Thanks.

Complaints about exports of fossil fuels > BCA.

Current fed policy: fossil fuel producers are welcome to decarbonize their in-country operations and continue exporting. (except brown/thermal coal export ends in 2030).

But there’s growing discontent about the downstream GHG, should we be doing more.

IDEA: export BCA border carbon adjustment that adds stringent carbon price (USD $200/tonne-GHG) onto export FF but only to countries with no broad based carbon price or stringency less than the BCA target.

That sounds like a formula to disadvantage our exports — buying countries would shop elsewhere for cheaper FF.

But it costs governments little to set up a carbon pricing system, it doesn’t hurt their annual budget (they have billions in carbon levy to recycle). And they may say sure, why not. Its like a nudge.

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Carbon pricing above fed benchmark can be recycled to income tax cuts -like BC, with 5% vs AB 10%- which economists say stimulates GDP growth, and BC has had great GDP growth. Economists say don’ tax good things -like labor- tax bad things like GHG.

Economics flavor – rather than tree-hugging image and trust in humanity, having a hard-core economic mechanism strategy can show you mean business. How that looks:

1. if monkey brains wins the next fed election, a party that will keep carbon pricing in place in AB and add to stringency

2. increase stringency of carbon pricing – feds chose lower end of economists recommended target for 2030 (210 was recommended). Adding another $5/tonne-GHG/year to the escalator will correct for inflation and federal softness

3. continue to escalate carbon price in consumer sector beyond 2030, at +20/yr. 170/tonne is NOT enough to finish the job due to cheap natgas in AB. Fuel switch when:

(cost of natgas + carbon price)/(furnace efficiency) > (cost of electricity)/(heat pump efficiency)

Example calculation:

cost of natgas $4/GJ

carbon price 2030 170/tonne-GHG x .0503 tonne-GHG/GJ-natgas = $8.55/GJ

furnace efficiency condensing .95

cost of electricity $0.17/kwh x 278 kwh/GJ = $36/GJ

heat pump efficiency 2.67

(4 + 8.55)/(.97) > (36)/(2.67) ?

(13.21) > (13.48) ? NO

- and even slightly different numbers won’t trigger fuel switching due to the higher capex of heat pumps. Carbon price needs to go higher to finish the job.

4. AB has regulation that MURBs multi-unit residential buildings must get an engineers capital replacement report every 5 years. But the engineers have no mandate to include a decarbonization pathway – just replace boiler for boiler. There should be a decarbonization pathway capital reserve plan.

5. carbon pricing in electricity sector is relative to ‘best gas’. Experts say every tonne-GHG should be priced since its not ‘trade exposed’. and doing so would open up a price spread that would encourage storage buildout to arbitrage renewables over time-of-day. Carbon pricing revenue in electricity sector can be recycled to electricity consumers to keep electricity competitive with fossil fuels.

6. Health care > family doctor shortage > Hypothesis: there’s lots of capacity in the system, the problem is the rules and incentives. Rules: doctor must spend 15 minutes per patient. if 25% of visits are for routine lab request and prescription refill, those visits can be completed in as little as 60 seconds, allowing 15x x .25 = 4x as many visits per day.

Having a graduated system will help give more care where needed rather than one issue per visit.

Thanks.

Really uplifting to view this roster of younger generation candidates already declared for our next “watershed moment” in Alberta politics and governance.

20th century thinking still prevalent in the present “oh so strange and alien governance” of our province must be intensely challenged with alternative 21st century policies and I’m ( an in the present and future oriented 75 year

old veteran of 50 years experiences in the struggle of the Alberta conservation and environmental protection community and ENGO’s .

Do your door knocking so citizens of Alberta in your ridings become aware of you, our party and its beliefs and policies.

In retrospect, keep your heads up to the possibilities

of “ agents provocateurs” that were in the past encountered and dealt with poorly within past incarnations of Alberta greens.

Finally, all the best to you in your commitments and work towards bringing Alberta and Albertans into the new paradigm needed in all the challenges of early days of this century so full of possibilities amid the existential challenges.

Don Kenyon

of River Town Devon Alberta.

Would you be available to speak to a group April 20 in Kitscoty? We are trying to get all three candidates to speak to community leaders for the region.

Thanks for the call yesterday, Jordan. I forgot to mention that the reason I had asked Cass to cancel my membership was because of the Q-Anon nonsense that Jen Roach was promoting while she was secretary during the last US presidential election: I could no longer be associated with her, or with any organization that would have her as a member of its executive council.
The reason I am interested in becoming involved again is because I believe the Green Party of Alberta has an important role to play. However, I am concerned that our candidates will not be taken seriously if we continue to promote the idea that we are a party that has a chance of winning any seats. I think we all know that if we don’t want a UCP candidate to win, we have to make sure the NDP candidate wins. As much as I support the values of the Green Party, and despise the hypocrisy and populism of Rachel Notley’s NDP, they have the money, the experience, the support, and the people to beat UCP candidates. We don’t. We simply have no chance of convincing NDP voters to vote Green as long as they are afraid of losing to a UCP candidate.
We CAN ask that every NDP supporter demand more of their NDP candidate on climate action DURING the campaign period: this is where we can have the most influence on future provincial policies. We can help make climate action the most important issue to voters in the next provincial election, just as the GPC helped make climate action the defining issue of the 2019 federal elections (FYI, my wife Beth and I ran the campaign for Safi Khan in Edmonton-Griesbach in 2019. She was the campaign manager, I was in charge of signs. We then also helped Ashley Salvadore get elected to Edmonton city council last year).
We can ask Green/NDP supporters to demand the NDP present a realistic, detailed plan to get Alberta’s GHG’s to zero ASAP, and certainly no later than 2050. We can promote the idea that if an Albertan voter is no longer in denial about the climate emergency, they should vote for a party that is no longer in denial: the NDP’s policies (“product to tidewater”) show us that they have yet to confront their own eco-grief and accept the realities of the climate emergency. The IPCC says we have less than a decade to get halfway there, and at present, there is NO plan at the provincial level.
In Edmonton, we have a toothless, unenforceable “Energy Transition Plan” that has no hard deadlines; no plan laid out to end the use of fossil fuel. Let’s stick to a basic script: time’s up. Leave it in the ground. Land back. EVERY decision through a climate lens. Pick the low-hanging fruit first. Don’t “reduce” fossil fuel use, ELIMINATE it.
We can no longer promote efficiency measures; we must demand bans on the use of fossil fuel with short timelines that match the urgency of the emergency. Start with a ban on gas-powered blowers, as is being proposed in Calgary. California has just banned the installation of gas in new buildings, effective 2030.
And most importantly, we must remind everyone that the goal of net zero by 2050 is an arbitrary date we set that has no basis in science any more: we should have already eliminated 100% of our GHG’s if we had wanted to keep global average temperatures to rise less than 1.5 degrees. Now it is too late. we simply have a moral obligation to stop making the problem worse ASAP: to minimize the global ecological disaster, and the resulting human suffering that our way of life has created.
You are of course correct when you point out that if we were to change our electoral system to a more representative system, Green candidates would have a better chance. But we haven’t got any more time to make sure that the candidates that win in the next election are committed to rational, science-based climate action, based on the ICPP reports and following the lead of the federal government.
Our role, simply, should be to publicly push the NDP to acknowledge their climate denial. We are running candidates not because we think they can beat NDP candidates, but because of our deep concern that those NDP candidates have not yet been capable of emotionally confronting their own climate anxiety, eco-grief, and science denial. As a result, their platform is only supportable by those still in denial. We need strong Green candidates to challenge the NDP to do better.
Every candidate, NDP or Green, should have by now read both Michael Mann’s “The New Climate War”, and Seth Klein’s “A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency”. Those who have couldn’t possibly run for the Alberta NDP with their present policies of further investments in fossil fuel infrastructure.
We can even offer to co-operate with the NDP: we can vet their candidates, and offer not to run against those who put climate action first in their campaign.
I hope these ideas resonate with you. I appreciate the longer-term vision you have for Alberta that includes electoral reform and elected Green MLA’s, but please remember that we don’t need to win to have an influence: what we need is action on the climate emergency. In Alberta in 2023, we need climate science to win.

Thanks for the call yesterday, Jordan. I forgot to mention that the reason I had asked Cass to cancel my membership was because of the Q-Anon nonsense that Jen Roach was promoting while she was secretary during the last US presidential election: I could no longer be associated with her, or with any organization that would have her as a member of its executive council.
The reason I am interested in becoming involved again is because I believe the Green Party of Alberta has an important role to play. However, I am concerned that our candidates will not be taken seriously if we continue to promote the idea that we are a party that has a chance of winning any seats. I think we all know that if we don’t want a UCP candidate to win, we have to make sure the NDP candidate wins. As much as I support the values of the Green Party, and despise the hypocrisy and populism of Rachel Notley’s NDP, they have the money, the experience, the support, and the people to beat UCP candidates. We don’t. We simply have no chance of convincing NDP voters to vote Green as long as they are afraid of losing to a UCP candidate.
We CAN ask that every NDP supporter demand more of their NDP candidate on climate action DURING the campaign period: this is where we can have the most influence on future provincial policies. We can help make climate action the most important issue to voters in the next provincial election, just as the GPC helped make climate action the defining issue of the 2019 federal elections (FYI, my wife Beth and I ran the campaign for Safi Khan in Edmonton-Griesbach in 2019. She was the campaign manager, I was in charge of signs. We then also helped Ashley Salvadore get elected to Edmonton city council last year).
We can ask Green/NDP supporters to demand the NDP present a realistic, detailed plan to get Alberta’s GHG’s to zero ASAP, and certainly no later than 2050. We can promote the idea that if an Albertan voter is no longer in denial about the climate emergency, they should vote for a party that is no longer in denial: the NDP’s policies (“product to tidewater”) show us that they have yet to confront their own eco-grief and accept the realities of the climate emergency. The IPCC says we have less than a decade to get halfway there, and at present, there is NO plan at the provincial level.
In Edmonton, we have a toothless, unenforceable “Energy Transition Plan” that has no hard deadlines; no plan laid out to end the use of fossil fuel. Let’s stick to a basic script: time’s up. Leave it in the ground. Land back. EVERY decision through a climate lens. Pick the low-hanging fruit first. Don’t “reduce” fossil fuel use, ELIMINATE it.
We can no longer promote efficiency measures; we must demand bans on the use of fossil fuel with short timelines that match the urgency of the emergency. Start with a ban on gas-powered blowers, as is being proposed in Calgary. California has just banned the installation of gas in new buildings, effective 2030.
And most importantly, we must remind everyone that the goal of net zero by 2050 is an arbitrary date we set that has no basis in science any more: we should have already eliminated 100% of our GHG’s if we had wanted to keep global average temperatures to rise less than 1.5 degrees. Now it is too late. we simply have a moral obligation to stop making the problem worse ASAP: to minimize the global ecological disaster, and the resulting human suffering that our way of life has created.
You are of course correct when you point out that if we were to change our electoral system to a more representative system, Green candidates would have a better chance. But we haven’t got any more time to make sure that the candidates that win in the next election are committed to rational, science-based climate action, based on the ICPP reports and following the lead of the federal government.
Our role, simply, should be to publicly push the NDP to acknowledge their climate denial. We are running candidates not because we think they can beat NDP candidates, but because of our deep concern that those NDP candidates have not yet been capable of emotionally confronting their own climate anxiety, eco-grief, and science denial. As a result, their platform is only supportable by those still in denial. We need strong Green candidates to challenge the NDP to do better.
Every candidate, NDP or Green, should have by now read both Michael Mann’s “The New Climate War”, and Seth Klein’s “A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency”. Those who have couldn’t possibly run for the Alberta NDP with their present policies of further investments in fossil fuel infrastructure.
We can even offer to co-operate with the NDP: we can vet their candidates, and offer not to run against those who put climate action first in their campaign.
I hope these ideas resonate with you. I appreciate the longer-term vision you have for Alberta that includes electoral reform and elected Green MLA’s, but please remember that we don’t need to win to have an influence: what we need is action on the climate emergency. In Alberta in 2023, we need climate science to win.

I am considering moving back to Alberta. It is a better province. Ontario is the worst province under Doug ford for seniors. My age is 67 I finally got saddle and horse accessory sales from India. The racism I saw in Edmonton toward Muslim women is gross. I like to get away from the civil liberation systems to democracy.

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