[Winnipegger]

Well! Somebody's been busy. In 1996 90% of electricity generated in southern and central Alberta came from just 2 coal burning power plants. Based on changes from 1998 to 2005 their coal generation has increased a tiny bit, but they've gone into natural gas big time.

I see documents that say CBM is currently drilling for existing methane rather than trying to convert coal to methane. Furthermore there's a regulation in place that saline water must be pumped back down. That's dramatically different than reported for Montana.

I'm disturbed to see so much natural gas used to generate electricity. Natural gas prices have risen way too much, we need to keep cost down for home heating and limiting bulk consumption is how to do that.

The Energy Alberta website has a lot of info. I'll go through it, thanks for the link.

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Winnipegger Winnipegger:

Well! Somebody's been busy. In 1996 90% of electricity generated in southern and central Alberta came from just 2 coal burning power plants. Based on changes from 1998 to 2005 their coal generation has increased a tiny bit, but they've gone into natural gas big time.

I see documents that say CBM is currently drilling for existing methane rather than trying to convert coal to methane. Furthermore there's a regulation in place that saline water must be pumped back down. That's dramatically different than reported for Montana.

I'm disturbed to see so much natural gas used to generate electricity. Natural gas prices have risen way too much, we need to keep cost down for home heating and limiting bulk consumption is how to do that.

The Energy Alberta website has a lot of info. I'll go through it, thanks for the link.

I see where there was a mix-up.

Side note-I was in Winnipeg yesterday and heard lots of airport employees telling me thank god for the new airport expansion as they delayed me unmercifully for no reason.I figured they were union and maybe in the midst of negotiations or something,just got that feeling as I tried to board my flight.
But when I flew in there was a whole bunch of girders,2 zoom-booms and 4 ironworkers putting the whole thing together,you guys on the 20 year plan for that expansion or is the NDP in charge of the project?

[Winnipegger]

I still haven't figured out what that is exactly about. Winnipeg used to be the hub airport for both Air Canada and Canadian Airlines until some politician got hub activity moved to Toronto. I lived in Toronto for 3 years, many of them really believe Toronto is the centre of the universe. Anyway, that left Winnipeg with an oversized airport terminal for local and regional traffic that goes through here. They built shops on the second level where there used to be a large waiting area. No one has ever seen the airport terminal crowded since the hub activity moved out. So we don't need a new terminal building.

This new building will use the 3rd runway as the apron for planes parked at the terminal. So they sacrificed our 3rd runaway to build this thing. Winnipeg continues to be the hub for cargo traffic and Russian transport minister wants Winnipeg to be their gateway to the North America market for Russian goods. That means even more cargo traffic.

The annual air show was moved last year to the small town of Portage La Prairie during construction, and cancelled this year all together. They did build a parkade for cars, but the terminal building is bad for the city.

The excuse on the airport website is service for the new Boeing Dreamliner and Airbus A380 aircraft. But the Dreamliner is no bigger than current aircraft, and the A380 only requires new bridges from the terminal building to the aircraft. Actually, they've deleted references to these two aircraft from the airport website. One guy claimed verbally that the foundations are bad so the building has to be torn down, but there are several companies in this city that do nothing but replace foundations beneath existing buildings, if that claim was true it would be easy to fix. Since they won't put that claim in writing I doubt it's true. There isn't any need for a new building. Someone is just jerking off.

Oh, it isn't an expansion, it's just a replacement. Has the NDP put it on a 20 year plan? That's sounds good, but they claim to be on schedule; they claim the new terminal building will be completed in 2009.

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Winnipegger Winnipegger:

I still haven't figured out what that is exactly about. Winnipeg used to be the hub airport for both Air Canada and Canadian Airlines until some politician got hub activity moved to Toronto. I lived in Toronto for 3 years, many of them really believe Toronto is the centre of the universe. Anyway, that left Winnipeg with an oversized airport terminal for local and regional traffic that goes through here. They built shops on the second level where there used to be a large waiting area. No one has ever seen the airport terminal crowded since the hub activity moved out. So we don't need a new terminal building.

This new building will use the 3rd runway as the apron for planes parked at the terminal. So they sacrificed our 3rd runaway to build this thing. Winnipeg continues to be the hub for cargo traffic and Russian transport minister wants Winnipeg to be their gateway to the North America market for Russian goods. That means even more cargo traffic.

The annual air show was moved last year to the small town of Portage La Prairie during construction, and cancelled this year all together. They did build a parkade for cars, but the terminal building is bad for the city.

The excuse on the airport website is service for the new Boeing Dreamliner and Airbus A380 aircraft. But the Dreamliner is no bigger than current aircraft, and the A380 only requires new bridges from the terminal building to the aircraft. Actually, they've deleted references to these two aircraft from the airport website. One guy claimed verbally that the foundations are bad so the building has to be torn down, but there are several companies in this city that do nothing but replace foundations beneath existing buildings, if that claim was true it would be easy to fix. Since they won't put that claim in writing I doubt it's true. There isn't any need for a new building. Someone is just jerking off.

Oh, it isn't an expansion, it's just a replacement. Has the NDP put it on a 20 year plan? That's sounds good, but they claim to be on schedule; they claim the new terminal building will be completed in 2009.

They better hurry then,2 zoombooms and 4 ironworkers just isnt going to cut it.

Definatly not a crowded airport.