Rebel News Podcast - SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Alberta's electricity grid averts catastrophe thanks to coal — but not Alberta coal

00:00:00.000 Albertans received an emergency alert to their cell phone this week about the power grid.

00:00:20.500 Is there more in store for us? I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.

00:00:30.000 Alberta, but most of the prairies are in an absolute deep freeze. Now, cold weather, nothing new. Sub-minus 40. I've been here my whole life. It doesn't surprise me.

00:00:54.780 Now, the length of this most recent cold snap is unusual, but it's nothing under normal circumstances that Albertans can't deal with.

00:01:06.340 We plug in our block heaters. We let our diesels warm up a little bit longer.

00:01:10.780 We might have to drive our kids to school like I've been because the school buses don't run when it's this cold.

00:01:16.740 But very rarely have we received an emergency alert akin to an Amber alert to our cell phone from the government in general.

00:01:32.260 But I think this is the first time we've ever received one about the potential failure of our power grid.

00:01:40.600 I'll read it to you right now. Emergency alert. This is an Alberta emergency alert issued by the AEMA.

00:01:51.220 The alert is in effect for Alberta. Extreme cold resulting in high power demand has placed the Alberta grid at high risk of rotating power outages this evening.

00:02:01.200 Albertans are asked to immediately limit their electricity use to essential needs only, turn off unnecessary lights and electrical appliances, minimize the use of space heaters, delay use of major power appliances, delay charging electrical vehicles and plugging in block heaters, cook with microwave instead of stove.

00:02:23.760 For more information, visit the Alberta Electric System Operator website.

00:02:30.340 Receiving that emergency alert was shocking because Alberta is coal rich.

00:02:39.680 We are energy rich.

00:02:41.820 But because of tinkering with our electrical system grid by the previous NDP government, along with the support of the Liberals in Ottawa, Alberta's grid is now at risk.

00:02:55.700 You see, the NDP government opted for an early phase out of coal, which is reliable baseload electricity, and contaminated the grid with renewables, which are unreliable in the winter and when the wind doesn't blow,

00:03:15.780 leaving us to unplug our block heaters, which keeps our vehicles able to be started so that we can go to work in the morning.

00:03:28.820 I mean, it was just outrageous.

00:03:29.820 We are wealthy with the potential for unlimited, nearly, electricity in this province, given that we have hundreds of years of clean burning coal under our feet.

00:03:44.060 But this is a consequence of green energy policy is now joining me today to discuss this, the very recent resignation of Alberta's NDP leader and former Premier Rachel Notley, the one who made these bad green decisions.

00:04:01.060 She's stepping down as leader of the NDP, triggering a leadership race and a few other things is my friend Robbie Picard from Oil Sand Strong.

00:04:12.960 Take a listen.

00:04:20.880 Joining me now is my good friend Robbie Picard from Oil Sand Strong and Oil and Gas World magazine.

00:04:26.780 And Robbie, just before I hit record on this, we're recording it Tuesday morning, news broke that Rachel Notley here in Alberta is resigning as NDP leader, triggering a leadership race.

00:04:43.900 She's resigning as leader of the official opposition. 0.98

00:04:46.640 We don't know yet because this is all very fluid and she hasn't even held a press conference yet.

00:04:51.540 That's going to be carried live later on today on some of the other networks.

00:04:57.740 However, we don't know if she's stepping down as an MLA.

00:05:01.700 I think she probably will because I think she has designs on the federal party.

00:05:06.640 But I just want to get your reaction because this is wild.

00:05:09.800 And she was the most anti-oil and gas premier in the entire country for a very long time, while four years have felt longer, in the most oil and gas province in the country.

00:05:24.220 You know, when it comes to Rachel Notley, I've often thought that, I can't believe I'm going to say this, but I would prefer, I actually, you know, I tell him I'll care.

00:05:36.360 I didn't agree with his politics, but I respected him as an opposition leader.

00:05:41.240 I thought he was a good opposition leader.

00:05:43.040 If this means that Rachel Notley would go federally and she'd take out that lunatic, Jagmean, and we'd have an opposition, I might be okay with that. 1.00

00:05:55.760 Yeah, this is kind of shocking, but I'm also not shocked.

00:05:58.400 I think that, you know, she had her time.

00:06:01.440 She, I can make the argument, was the most successful NDP leader of all time.

00:06:06.740 She broke the gas, well, the gas ceiling, the glass ceiling in Alberta.

00:06:12.500 But yeah, no, I mean, I'm a little bit shocked, but I think that's good news for Alberta in a lot of ways because we need a really, really strong conservative government right now for what's ahead.

00:06:24.700 And I'm hoping that Daniel Smith stays as our premier for as long as possible because I am terrified about our future.

00:06:33.220 Yeah, you know, I do think she probably has designs on the federal party leadership and as a conservative, small C, not a big C conservative, but a person who cares about fiscal responsibility and personal freedom. 0.87

00:06:49.320 The conservative party wins when there is a strong NDP leader, as you point out, Thomas Mulcair.

00:06:55.280 I probably disagreed with him on almost everything, but I didn't think he was an absolute crazy person.

00:07:00.680 And he sort of reined in the more radical parts of the NDP federally.

00:07:07.700 We know that Jagmeet Singh doesn't do that.

00:07:09.240 And he's a complete and total Justin Trudeau enabler.

00:07:12.200 I think if Rachel Notley runs, I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm cheering for her to run federally because it'll crack the progressive coalition wide apart and the conservatives will just come up the middle.

00:07:25.020 And as you say, she was a successful NDP politician.

00:07:28.620 She did crack Fortress, Alberta. 0.91

00:07:31.260 She's from the West. 0.99

00:07:33.320 She's a woman. 0.82

00:07:36.180 And seen as a more and with the NDP, all things being relative, a bit more moderate than some of the wild eyed parts of the party.

00:07:48.140 I mean, again, I say all things being relative.

00:07:50.520 I do think Rachel Notley is an anti oil radical and a social radical also.

00:07:54.900 But there are far worse than her in the party right now.

00:07:58.620 Well, you know, and if I was, I'm not, but if I was an NDP party supporter, I would want, I mean, what has Jagmeet done for them?

00:08:06.780 I mean, he's basically like.

00:08:09.160 He's bankrupted them.

00:08:10.380 Yeah.

00:08:10.620 He's destroyed them.

00:08:11.500 And I mean, I always get a kicker of these champagne social, champagne socialists like him with his, you know, dual exhaust BMW car and his expensive suits.

00:08:21.200 And it is like, it's just such a joke.

00:08:24.120 And I mean, the country.

00:08:24.980 The workers party.

00:08:26.040 The seat of our country with those two, like with Trudeau and him at the helm.

00:08:32.740 I mean, you know, I, I had a conversation with my uncle the other day.

00:08:37.920 My uncle was quite a successful guy.

00:08:39.640 And he's a little more social than me, which is kind of funny because he was, you know, done very well.

00:08:44.400 But he's also, you know, kind of leans a little bit more social, social causes than I do.

00:08:52.500 But also, you know, when you're retired and you have a ton of money, you can pivot and, you know, become your sets.

00:08:57.900 But what I thought quite fascinating was, is, you know, when we're talking about Trudeau and these electric cars and my uncle's the kind of guy that would have a Tesla.

00:09:07.200 And he's like, this is going to ruin us.

00:09:09.620 And most people that I know right now that are talking like, like the notion that we are going to have electric cars in 11 years, especially after we had the coldest, you know, spell that we've had in 100 years.

00:09:25.780 And we have a warning on the power grid and him and Trudeau, like the damage they've done to everyone in this country.

00:09:34.340 If you're a small media company and you had Facebook, you lost that.

00:09:38.900 He has done more damage than anyone else.

00:09:42.260 And I can remember more than his father, like Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet and their little coalition has really damaged our country.

00:09:50.800 And, I mean, at this point, like, I really hope that Pierre Paulyov gets in and I hope that we get some common sense.

00:09:57.480 I mean, could you imagine what would have happened if, you know, one, they didn't put up that emergency alert to the grid would have shut down?

00:10:03.980 I mean, this is what they're putting us into.

00:10:07.700 They're putting our country into a state of complete chaos where common sense doesn't exist anymore for their woke ideology, which isn't even I don't even know why.

00:10:18.160 I don't understand it. I mean, in Chicago right now, electric cars, they have only minus 19 and they're and they're shutting down like crazy.

00:10:25.600 They're having a crisis from a little bit of a snowstorm and we're going to duplicate that across our country.

00:10:30.360 I just I'm just shocked and blown away by this pure incompetence.

00:10:34.820 You know, I'm glad you mentioned the electricity grid because I do want to talk to you about this because the NDP here in Alberta are trying to offload their mistakes onto the current government.

00:10:49.120 The crisis in our electricity grid related to the cold weather that we're having and cold weather, my sub minus 40.

00:10:59.080 You're from Fort McMurray. I'm from Fort Saskatchewan. That's nothing new.

00:11:01.760 We get it every couple of weeks all winter long.

00:11:04.120 And this extended deep freeze spell is what's been very hard on our grid.

00:11:09.480 And the NDP, in particular, Brian Mason, a former NDP, you know, he was he was the former NDP leader before Notley.

00:11:22.500 And he's sitting at home right now or sorry, I think he's in B.C.

00:11:26.120 He retired to B.C. sucking up his pension.

00:11:30.360 And he said that the reason the grid is is in danger right now. 0.98

00:11:36.380 And we had alerts all sent to our phones like Amber Alerts telling us not to plug in our electric vehicles and not to, you know, not to start cleaning the oven.

00:11:46.060 But he he said it is the fault of the hillbillies.

00:11:53.680 He used that word for voting for the UCP.

00:11:56.580 And I thought, you know what, you jackwagons, you guys are the ones who took us off coal. 0.99

00:12:01.920 We've got 800 years of clean, burning, reliable coal under our feet.

00:12:06.720 And the NDP sided with Justin Trudeau and started taking our reliable coal fired electricity generation offline and polluted our grid with unreliable renewables that are operating at basically next to nothing right now.

00:12:23.380 We're trying to have our natural gas plants keep up.

00:12:27.540 And if we ever end up in a rolling brownout situation, guess what we're going to do?

00:12:32.560 We're going to do what we always do by coal fired electricity from our good friends in Wyoming.

00:12:39.700 So for all of the NDPs preening and blaming hillbillies for the failings of our grid that they tinkered with at the end of the day, we'll just buy coal fired electricity from Wyoming.

00:12:53.000 So we're not really getting off coal and getting off coal jobs.

00:12:56.940 We're getting off Canadian coal and Canadian coal jobs.

00:13:00.700 You know, I always said this is a part that I find always perplexing.

00:13:06.040 I call them the pseudo intellectuals that somehow think that they are superior to everybody and they don't need to call people hillbillies.

00:13:13.300 I mean, I, you know, I don't think that Brian is in a position to criticize anybody considering the mess that they left the province in.

00:13:22.880 And I have a friend who actually was a complete NDP supporter from Parkland County, who told me the devastation that shutting down the coal industry did to that community.

00:13:33.740 This is stuff we, we, we produce 1.5% of all global emissions.

00:13:38.660 That's it.

00:13:39.720 It doesn't matter anything we do, period.

00:13:42.220 It makes a zero difference in the world's CO2 emissions.

00:13:46.480 If you want to make that argument and we are destroyed our economy, punishing ourselves.

00:13:54.200 This electric car thing is going to blow up in their face.

00:13:56.780 And, you know, it's really going to be funny countries like China that are benefiting from it.

00:14:01.960 It's just helping China. 0.97

00:14:03.500 It's not helping us.

00:14:04.760 The batteries, like, I mean, it's really destroying our country.

00:14:08.220 And why?

00:14:09.900 I mean, this is, this is just a taste of a warning on our cell phones.

00:14:14.580 Okay.

00:14:14.920 You know, don't turn out your lights and don't use the oven.

00:14:18.360 Can you imagine when it gets real serious?

00:14:21.280 Like what happens to the state of our country?

00:14:23.980 I mean, this was, this was nothing.

00:14:24.980 This is just a warning on your phone.

00:14:26.300 You get something to talk about, but they have putting us in our, are they putting our country in a position.

00:14:32.140 And of weakness is we're becoming a pathetic country with no military presence, with all these resources that we are not.

00:14:39.640 It's like that airplane that, what was that name of the airplane that we could, the Avery AirVolt years ago.

00:14:45.520 Avery, yeah.

00:14:46.800 Yeah.

00:14:47.600 We're doing that to our energy industry. 1.00

00:14:49.400 We're sitting back and we're, we're becoming this stupid country. 1.00

00:14:52.860 We've had this bizarre narcissistic leader who won't leave and, and don't under, you know what? 1.00

00:14:59.140 And people like, well, he's, you know, you can't underestimate Justin Trudeau.

00:15:02.740 You can make the argument that Justin Trudeau is the most successful leader.

00:15:06.760 Cause he's the last one, you know, and I think we really need to take him seriously.

00:15:12.520 Like, I mean, what, what is he willing to do to stay in power?

00:15:16.200 I mean, buy in the media, like, think about that.

00:15:19.080 Like, I was really funny cause I, like I was watching, um, at issue on CBC and, um, I found it quite interesting what Andrew Cohen said.

00:15:27.180 Cause he said that even him, he made a statement saying that like the money that they receive, he wishes they didn't receive it because they lost all credibility.

00:15:35.300 Well, how do you, you know, I have clients in my marketing company that are paying, do you just think I'm going to say anything bad about them?

00:15:43.340 Absolutely not.

00:15:45.000 They're the greatest clients.

00:15:46.500 Everything they do is amazing.

00:15:48.360 And it'll be like that.

00:15:49.720 That's what he's done for media.

00:15:50.980 He literally has made himself this election force changing rules on Facebook.

00:15:55.020 And at some point it'll blow up.

00:15:57.160 We're going to be the collateral damage.

00:15:59.320 You know, like I did a post the other day where I had a picture of, you know, uh, uh, Daniel Smith and I put feminist and I put fake feminist.

00:16:05.980 And then someone messaged me, well, you're chauvinistic.

00:16:09.300 Cause I'm calling Trudeau a fake feminist. 0.95

00:16:11.500 Like Trudeau has like, he want to talk about trans as stealing women. 0.84

00:16:16.120 Well, Trudeau, I mean, look what he's done.

00:16:19.000 It's 2015.

00:16:19.960 I'm the best feminist. 1.00

00:16:21.160 I want to be called a feminist. 1.00

00:16:22.460 He literally stole, like he did no different than anyone else.

00:16:27.500 He took that and he became this, he became a feminist because he couldn't handle women actually being feminists.

00:16:33.480 Tell me one female that Trudeau has uplifted.

00:16:36.300 You mean one?

00:16:37.500 I can't think of one.

00:16:38.360 Maybe Christina Freeland. 1.00

00:16:39.340 I doubt it, but it's all about him.

00:16:41.340 Everything.

00:16:41.980 He's the prettiest girl in the room.

00:16:43.780 That's Justin Trudeau.

00:16:45.320 And, and it's just a mess. 0.81

00:16:47.100 And I want to say something else too, and I'm on this rat right now.

00:16:49.720 But when I, when I saw what happened to David Mendes, I was just blown away.

00:16:56.720 Now it was really funny.

00:16:57.640 Cause I watched all the media and that, like, that was like the number one story of the world for two days, three days.

00:17:01.940 I mean, it was amazing, but like, I know David and you know, and I, I kind of like, I don't see David as like dangerous ever.

00:17:10.000 You know, like, like, like even when he's like going after a story, like his treatment by, I've thought about this even more so.

00:17:20.120 Cause some people are like, well, you know, he was arrested before, but like, what has he ever done to deserve any type of the treatment he's received?

00:17:28.000 And you know, they, they were covering it kind of fairly, but I, I mean, I was watching, like they were struggling to just say, this is a reporter. 0.93

00:17:36.420 Like they, they, they gave him, it was so pathetic. 0.88

00:17:40.180 And I thought this is the world we're in. 0.98

00:17:42.400 They can't just take their personal opinion aside and say, you know what?

00:17:45.540 We don't like rebel.

00:17:46.360 We don't like David, but that is wrong.

00:17:49.280 I mean, you know what?

00:17:51.560 I'll say something else too.

00:17:52.960 If you watch that video closely, the guy, that's like a basketball move.

00:17:58.040 You didn't bump into him.

00:17:59.220 That's a scream. 0.92

00:17:59.760 He blocked his path deliberately to arrest him.

00:18:02.340 Yeah.

00:18:02.600 And you should do play by play on that and kind of show.

00:18:05.140 Cause like, why would you be standing there before he was waiting for it?

00:18:08.460 Sure.

00:18:08.680 Like that's like, that's a move.

00:18:10.100 Right.

00:18:10.780 And, and, and that's somehow acceptable and free, but shame on her.

00:18:15.020 Like, like unbelievable.

00:18:17.340 Even if she's a ball, I don't handle it. 0.99

00:18:18.900 How about you just apologize?

00:18:21.140 Say, you know, this is excessive.

00:18:23.300 Like she's a former journalist.

00:18:25.200 The woman won't shut up about how she supports the rights of journalists. 1.00

00:18:29.820 Don't speak truth to power, except when a journalist is arrested right in front of her,

00:18:35.480 then she doesn't have a thing to say.

00:18:38.860 She can't even say, she didn't even have to say like my security detail acted in excess.

00:18:45.040 When she had the question put to her the next day, she could have just said,

00:18:48.180 you know, I'm against, uh, arresting journalists, trying to do their jobs.

00:18:52.420 That's all she had to say.

00:18:53.480 She couldn't even say that.

00:18:55.960 And he just asked a simple question.

00:18:58.560 That's his job.

00:19:00.060 And that's the world we're in.

00:19:01.900 And that's what Trudeau's created.

00:19:03.060 And I, and I think it's a shame. 0.97

00:19:05.240 Like we're, we're in such a bad position because of this, you know, this silver spoon spoiled brat narcissist. 0.96

00:19:11.640 That is our leader. 0.90

00:19:13.920 And I mean, look, I actually like Jean Chrétien.

00:19:17.000 I could respect Paul Martin.

00:19:18.400 I could tell you good things of all the liberal prime ministers that we've had throughout history,

00:19:22.920 including his dad to a point.

00:19:24.620 And I'm not a big, uh, you know, Pierre Fran, but I can say certain things.

00:19:28.700 Tell me one thing that he's done for the country.

00:19:31.180 Give me one.

00:19:33.220 You make it on the trans mountain.

00:19:35.840 You can make the argument on trans mountain.

00:19:37.500 And really, he took something out of the hands of the private sector that was going to be built

00:19:41.780 and then ballooned the cost, uh, 300% at least.

00:19:46.280 And it's still not in production.

00:19:49.980 Um, good point.

00:19:51.940 Thank you.

00:19:53.840 I got nothing.

00:19:54.980 Uh, quick.

00:19:55.860 Another question.

00:19:56.520 Are we letting in the same amount of immigrants that the U S is?

00:20:00.360 I heard that we're matching it.

00:20:01.840 Like, like we're letting the exact, like per capita.

00:20:04.840 Every single year.

00:20:05.800 I heard we're on.

00:20:06.520 What are we at with that?

00:20:09.420 It's the same.

00:20:10.420 Like, why are we doing that?

00:20:11.780 Like, well, and nobody can give us a straight answer.

00:20:14.360 So what they're saying are their immigration targets are probably twice.

00:20:19.700 Actually what they're allowing.

00:20:22.080 And, uh, we just don't have the housing.

00:20:24.680 We don't have the healthcare.

00:20:26.300 We don't have the schools.

00:20:27.960 We don't have.

00:20:28.320 Is he just letting in voters?

00:20:29.780 Is he hoping to let in people to vote for him?

00:20:31.960 Right.

00:20:32.200 So that's the stage we're at.

00:20:33.480 Like he buys the media and then he lets in people to the country so they can vote for

00:20:38.740 him.

00:20:38.960 And then he's going to ban electric cars in 11 years.

00:20:42.080 And meanwhile, if you look at the transfer payments, the big transfer payments went to

00:20:46.140 Manitoba and to Quebec from Alberta from our oil revenue one week, whichever way you

00:20:52.140 want to slice it.

00:20:53.120 And then they're going to hinder that.

00:20:55.280 Like, this is not, this is not okay.

00:20:59.180 Like, and I, and I just, you're scared to speak out against it because you don't want to, you

00:21:04.360 know, be labeled a conspiracy theorist.

00:21:05.840 You don't want your bank account frozen.

00:21:07.180 Well, you know what, you think about that.

00:21:10.520 Think about that.

00:21:12.100 He had the, he froze people's bank accounts because they disagreed with him.

00:21:16.240 Yeah.

00:21:17.760 Yeah.

00:21:19.460 That's like, you know, wow.

00:21:21.680 I mean, you know, I mean, he could go to Putin and tell Putin to hold his beer.

00:21:27.080 He is, he is becoming something that, yeah.

00:21:31.080 And I just, I'm blown away by it.

00:21:33.680 But when I, when I had that warning and you know, the, the, the, the damage that this electric

00:21:39.360 car thing does to us. 0.57

00:21:40.700 Yeah.

00:21:41.180 We don't have grid capacity.

00:21:42.820 We don't have grid capacity for the cars, let alone everything else they want us to do.

00:21:48.020 But look what else he's doing.

00:21:49.680 Let's say you want to buy a gas powered vehicle or a diesel powered truck.

00:21:54.180 That is going to stop in about three years because they are going to gear up for the, for,

00:21:59.640 they're not going to plan.

00:22:00.480 They don't, they don't build a car for that.

00:22:02.900 Right.

00:22:03.080 He's like, he's ruining our province.

00:22:06.600 So it's like, I don't know, like I just, I'm at the point now where I, I, I, I just can't

00:22:12.200 believe we're in this state and we've let this happen, but how, what can we do in Alberta?

00:22:16.220 I mean, right.

00:22:17.740 Well, that's the thing.

00:22:18.780 We didn't let this happen.

00:22:21.440 We didn't, but there's hope there's always hope.

00:22:24.400 And you know what?

00:22:24.820 The poll numbers are signaling hope.

00:22:28.520 And, um, as, as they're pointed out the other day, the younger you are a voter, the more you

00:22:34.500 actually dislike Trudeau because you see Trudeau as the reason that you are never going to have

00:22:39.800 the things that your parents and grandparents have.

00:22:41.700 Uh, you see Trudeau as the reason that you might never own a home, let alone property.

00:22:47.420 The reason you might never get to take a vacation or own a reliable vehicle or be able to afford

00:22:54.020 children or be able to get out of debt debt.

00:22:56.440 They see Trudeau as the hindrance to their future goals.

00:23:01.440 And, um, you know, it's reflected in the polls where Trudeau is consistently 10 points down

00:23:07.500 from the conservatives.

00:23:08.440 And, but that's also a reason why he's going to give the NDP everything they want because

00:23:14.720 the second that coalition falls apart, he is off on a billionaire's Island somewhere on a

00:23:20.720 forever vacation.

00:23:23.420 Yeah.

00:23:23.920 A hundred percent.

00:23:25.020 And I think, think about this.

00:23:27.140 He's taxing us to stay alive.

00:23:29.540 Yeah.

00:23:30.060 So while you're already paying, like you're my doggy door broke, right?

00:23:34.880 So I've got a crisis is minus 50 outside and I can't close my doggy door.

00:23:39.780 Right.

00:23:40.360 So I, and I can't fix the door.

00:23:41.880 So I'm already burning more energy trying to like deal with that.

00:23:44.320 Right.

00:23:44.640 Well, now I got to pay tax on top of that.

00:23:46.500 Yeah.

00:23:46.720 He's taxing us to stay alive.

00:23:50.200 Right.

00:23:50.600 Like heating your home, it should be like as cheap as possible.

00:23:57.340 It should be a human, right?

00:23:59.400 People that can't afford it should be subsidized for is the basic need to stay alive in Alberta

00:24:03.680 and in Canada, anywhere.

00:24:06.180 And I mean, you sure, you sure shut up about heat pumps, didn't he?

00:24:10.520 You know, that's going to work, right?

00:24:13.340 Like turn your air conditioner backwards and you can warm your house.

00:24:16.720 Like, it's just insane.

00:24:18.580 Anyway, he's a little bit rat on him, but I, I just hit a wall today.

00:24:22.920 And I, the beauty though, is everyone I know rather, and I have a lot of friends on all

00:24:27.300 spectrums, you know, so like, but everyone I know is at the same page with him. 0.90

00:24:32.160 They all think he's a narcissistic child.

00:24:34.480 He was never grown up.

00:24:35.340 But the cool thing, as you said, the younger people are seeing it and hopefully we can get

00:24:39.800 rid of that, you know, that it's, I think he will be the worst prime minister that we've

00:24:47.140 ever had.

00:24:47.760 I mean, he never balanced the budget.

00:24:49.940 He, like, he is, it's just, he ruined the country and our morale.

00:24:55.280 And can't, like, I do, the biggest thing, I think I was talking to a friend of mine, the

00:24:59.760 other young, younger person, they're like, you know, universal income will be perfect.

00:25:02.660 And as long as I can get an affordable house, I don't need to own a home.

00:25:05.760 And I'm like, wow.

00:25:06.980 So that's what you want.

00:25:08.220 You own nothing.

00:25:09.340 You make just enough to sustain.

00:25:11.180 You own nothing and be happy.

00:25:14.240 That is not what Alberta or Canada ever was.

00:25:18.320 It's a place where people can have opportunities, own homes and build a life.

00:25:23.580 And so your life is a journey and it didn't matter who you were.

00:25:27.020 You had a shot.

00:25:28.160 Right.

00:25:28.740 And now, I don't know.

00:25:30.660 And then the debt, like, we're, we're a small country and the debt load we have now,

00:25:37.000 I mean, it's, I really hope that we come to our senses and maybe,

00:25:41.300 there's a shot, we'll get the Keystone Pipeline and maybe all of this nonsense

00:25:45.000 will spin around and we'll treat the world like we should and burn clean,

00:25:50.280 renewable fossil energy, you know, from like fossil fuels, which is renewable

00:25:56.620 at the same time.

00:25:58.280 You know, I was thinking about this the other day.

00:25:59.300 It's like, where's all these trees he planted?

00:26:01.340 You know, one thing I like that they do in Saskatchewan is they build wetlands

00:26:04.900 in the ditches by the farmland. 0.99

00:26:07.880 That shit we can do right away. 0.99

00:26:09.200 We can, we can, we can make our world better. 1.00

00:26:12.420 We can have clean air and fossil fuels.

00:26:15.000 We do.

00:26:15.420 You're not going to have it if you make all these electric cars and have these

00:26:18.920 batteries that don't last, that they're going to ruin the planet.

00:26:22.800 You're going to have to like deal with that.

00:26:24.940 It's insane.

00:26:25.840 And we need to, we need to be more vocal or do something about it.

00:26:28.680 Yeah.

00:26:28.980 It is insane when you think that, again, we have 800 years of clean burning coal

00:26:33.160 under our feet.

00:26:33.960 We have the world's third largest proven oil reserves, natural gas just seeping out

00:26:39.960 of the ground in places, coal, you could just chip it out of the riverbeds.

00:26:45.240 And we are potentially faced with rolling brownouts because of the green energy policies imposed

00:26:52.280 on us by the NDP who continue to blame the current UCP.

00:26:56.400 And if Justin Trudeau had his way, he would make it worse because if we were in the future

00:27:01.860 faced with a rolling brownout, nobody could get to work at the windmill farm of the future

00:27:08.460 because their electric pickup trucks wouldn't start.

00:27:11.200 Like it's just a disaster upon another disaster.

00:27:15.980 But on that dark note, you and I have a reason to celebrate because it is an important anniversary

00:27:23.540 this week for you.

00:27:26.500 It is the week you ran Hollywood out of Fort McQuarrie and they never really ever came back.

00:27:32.640 No, it was on a very cold, cold winter day in front of Moxie's. 0.72

00:27:37.780 I'll never forget that text.

00:27:39.300 You're like, Sheila Jane Fonda is in Moxie's. 1.00

00:27:42.280 And I was like, the hell she is.

00:27:44.120 She's not in Moxie's. 1.00

00:27:46.940 I'm like, that's just some other old lady with too much work done. 1.00

00:27:50.400 That's not Jane Fonda. 1.00

00:27:52.100 But it was.

00:27:53.400 Sorry, tell us about it.

00:27:55.380 You know, it was a great day.

00:27:58.460 You know, it was we, I was trying to hunt her down.

00:28:02.140 And the funny part was, is that I was actually late for a meeting with my lawyer.

00:28:06.220 Um, and so Suzanne calls me and she's like, Robbie, where are you? 0.98

00:28:09.940 And I'm like, oh shit.

00:28:11.800 I forgot about lunch with us. 0.97

00:28:12.920 I'm, you know, I'm trying to track Jane Fonda down.

00:28:15.500 She's like, well, you better hurry up because she's here at Moxie's. 1.00

00:28:18.380 So, uh, managed to set up a bit of a media squirm and, uh, she wouldn't answer my questions. 1.00

00:28:23.440 And my, of course, my cell phone was on like no battery and I had two seconds, but that, I mean, that did two things.

00:28:30.920 It, it, it got me back my, in my advocacy lane, which I'm thankful for because, you know, I had that, uh, lesbian post.

00:28:37.440 So I was kind of staying it there for a little while.

00:28:40.400 But, uh, after that, it, uh, you know, it got me back and I, you know, I am so proud of it.

00:28:46.180 I, I'm, the two things I'm most proud of is that, uh, I was supposed to debate Mike Adima from Greenpeace and, uh, he told the, I think he told the reporter that they, that, uh, they were scared of the baby because I, I was not scared to take on the environmentalists.

00:29:02.220 So they would have to get counseling after I was done with them.

00:29:04.740 And I was so, I was proud of that.

00:29:07.560 And I'm also proud that there has not been a celebrity visit to Fort McMurray since.

00:29:13.100 Yeah.

00:29:13.460 I mean, you could say Greta, you know, was here, but Greta lied so low and basically, you know, did it, she didn't do much, but I, and I, I have, I'm proud of that.

00:29:24.120 Cause that's been quite a few years.

00:29:25.060 How many years has that been?

00:29:26.360 Seven, I think.

00:29:27.860 Oh my God.

00:29:28.660 Yeah.

00:29:28.840 Seven years.

00:29:29.420 Yeah.

00:29:29.660 So in my, you know, in my, my little, uh, faux leather jacket and freezing, but it was a, it was a good moment.

00:29:38.420 And I I'm proud of that moment because it was a time Fort McMurray fought back.

00:29:42.600 And it, it created such a positive reaction.

00:29:45.960 The majority of the indigenous first nations, um, denounced her visit.

00:29:50.920 They wrote letters about her, uh, chief Jim Boucher from Fort McKay refused to meet with her.

00:29:56.120 She was left in the cold and high.

00:29:58.460 It also was an, we just said, we had enough.

00:30:01.220 We fought back.

00:30:02.200 Even not, he spoke against her visit and, and it was just, it was such a perfect storm.

00:30:07.360 Um, and it kind of goes to show you like, cause the other cool thing I'm proud of, but was that they were all going to come here for tech and I warned them.

00:30:15.580 I said, I'm here.

00:30:16.220 And I went to the tech hearings and Berman didn't even come because she didn't want to deal with me.

00:30:21.400 And, uh, so they're like, cause yeah, cause if celebrities come to Fort McMurray to bash the oil sands, I will track them down.

00:30:28.340 I will find them.

00:30:29.240 There's nowhere they can go that I will get tipped off on.

00:30:31.720 I've got friends with helicopters.

00:30:32.800 I'll get a helicopter and track them down and I'll confront them.

00:30:36.580 And, uh, so like, um, and they know that I'm, and I, I give zero, give zero cares what they think.

00:30:45.680 So I'm happy.

00:30:46.520 I'm proud of that.

00:30:47.800 I have some like regrets on, on the reach that, you know, like we've done a lot, like taking on David Suzuki, all kinds of stuff.

00:30:55.680 Like I'm, I'm proud of all that.

00:30:57.140 Um, tech, you know, that was a project that our community, um, and they won, they managed to get tech council.

00:31:05.620 And I think part of that was, is that, uh, Martin Machine, Jane Fonda and all them, instead of coming here, they were supposed to, I believe they canceled that they did at Washington steps.

00:31:14.800 Yeah.

00:31:14.980 So, you know, if I had the resources, I would have loved to have just hopped a plate and gone to Washington to confront them because that Jane Fonda, like, I mean, and Neil Yard and the sheer.

00:31:27.560 And they knew, they knew they couldn't have protested in your community because they would be faced with the people whose lives they were about to change for the worse by denying them their jobs.

00:31:39.840 And so, uh, next time, I think it is very important.

00:31:44.640 Um, and I'll do everything I can to help you get there.

00:31:47.520 The next time these environmentalist yahoos in their 50,000 square foot mansions and their private jets decide to tell indigenous people, they don't deserve a six figure job to get themselves out of generational poverty. 1.00

00:32:05.580 They are not going to do it unopposed.

00:32:09.340 No.

00:32:10.040 And I think bluntly, we need to, we got to understand, like, it's a whole frog in boiling water.

00:32:16.140 Like we don't, we, we, it's just electric car.

00:32:19.340 Like even the notion, like, well, you know, it's only 10 years.

00:32:22.700 Like they're not going to implement for 10 years.

00:32:24.740 How about I will drive a gas power truck until I choose not to.

00:32:30.220 Yeah.

00:32:30.720 That's my right.

00:32:31.660 Like, who are they to tell us what to do?

00:32:35.620 I mean, you can make the argument and here's the funny thing about electric cars.

00:32:39.060 They're actually not new.

00:32:40.360 They're out of fact that they're older than you look back.

00:32:43.620 They're actually older than the current gas power, diesel power vehicles we have.

00:32:47.580 Right.

00:32:48.560 Uh, the technology just doesn't work.

00:32:51.560 I am not against like a golf cart at a golf course.

00:32:55.000 That's electric.

00:32:55.620 Right.

00:32:55.940 I have one.

00:32:56.820 I love it.

00:32:57.660 I sneak up on people in it.

00:32:59.320 I'm funny with that, but what we all know in our hearts, what they're doing is wrong.

00:33:04.120 We all know it.

00:33:04.860 Everyone knows it.

00:33:05.560 No one wants these electric cars.

00:33:07.380 Do you know who also doesn't want, do you know who also doesn't want the electric cars?

00:33:12.140 The cabinet ministers, because every time they open their mouths about this stuff, I pull

00:33:17.480 what sort of taxpayer funded vehicle they are choosing for themselves.

00:33:21.560 And they are almost 99% gas powered vehicles.

00:33:28.140 And more often than not, not a sedan, but an SUV.

00:33:32.480 And if you pose the question to them, why are you driving an SUV?

00:33:35.500 Well, because they need something safe on Canadian winter roads.

00:33:39.420 And I say to that, me too.

00:33:41.100 Yeah, exactly.

00:33:43.280 Exactly.

00:33:43.860 And then, like, even the environment minister, you know what I mean?

00:33:46.860 He was caught driving a, they were providing him with a vehicle that was gas powered. 0.90

00:33:52.260 Like, it's ridiculous.

00:33:53.920 Yeah, McKenna drives a Subaru. 0.96

00:33:57.460 Yeah.

00:33:58.260 Like, what the hell? 0.86

00:34:01.040 Yeah.

00:34:01.200 So, like, it's, I hate to say this, but some of the things I really truly believe it's about

00:34:06.620 creating a two-level society.

00:34:09.340 Yep.

00:34:10.180 You know what I mean?

00:34:11.020 Yep.

00:34:11.100 And you're, you're happy with what we give you and so be it.

00:34:14.800 And we can still, I mean, even the whole, like, you know, the cop conferences and all

00:34:19.500 that, I mean, what, like, they all take private jets to go feel important.

00:34:23.140 It's, it's bizarre.

00:34:25.600 It is.

00:34:26.700 Bizarre.

00:34:28.880 When they move off the beach because of the rising oceans, then maybe I might take them

00:34:33.400 seriously.

00:34:33.940 Probably not.

00:34:34.840 But at least I would believe that they were sincere.

00:34:37.560 However, wrong, but they're not sincere.

00:34:39.480 They just are using this to control our lives.

00:34:42.340 How many homeless people does Oprah let live in one of her mansions? 1.00

00:34:45.720 Right.

00:34:46.080 Great point.

00:34:47.580 Yeah.

00:34:47.760 You know what I mean?

00:34:48.040 Like, that's, that's what I'm saying.

00:34:49.160 Like, how many, like, how many houses does one person need?

00:34:53.700 Yeah.

00:34:53.860 Right?

00:34:54.080 Like, I mean, if you want to make, like, I'm a capitalist.

00:34:57.780 I'm all for you.

00:34:58.500 Work hard.

00:34:59.040 Do what you want.

00:34:59.760 Do what you want.

00:35:00.440 Yep.

00:35:00.760 But they're not.

00:35:02.740 But, like, yeah, well, that's, and that's my point.

00:35:04.800 Like, it's like, you know, how many, how many homeless people are there in England?

00:35:09.420 And how many castles sit empty?

00:35:11.320 But the truth of it is, the problem is a lot more complicated than that.

00:35:15.660 Homelessness isn't just always sad people that are down on their luck.

00:35:19.860 It's crime, drugs, all kinds of stuff, right?

00:35:22.960 We had a homeless encampment here and everyone was dropping off food for them and all this stuff. 0.89

00:35:26.720 And then it turned out there was a major criminal raping women in that. 0.95

00:35:30.380 Right. 0.98

00:35:31.060 And he was doing it on a full belly, sounds like.

00:35:33.840 Yeah.

00:35:34.520 So it's like, it's kind of hilarious, I think, that these so-called woke people are trying to tell people how to live instead of just living their lives.

00:35:45.220 I mean, Oprah, have your billions.

00:35:47.740 Good for you.

00:35:48.400 You did well for yourself.

00:35:49.360 I support that.

00:35:50.220 But this infringing on everyone else's right to live, I don't get it.

00:35:56.880 You know, it's like, I remember watching when I, they had, they were at some award show and then they had the, they showed pictures of Atalius Pond in Fort McMurray and that all these millionaire celebrities were dressed up full, talking about, talking about the cars, right?

00:36:12.400 None of them were here.

00:36:13.160 None of them understand anything.

00:36:14.360 I mean, like, and that's, I mean, at least that's one thing I will say I think we have accomplished.

00:36:19.680 When celebrities speak now, they get pretty destroyed pretty fast.

00:36:24.740 Yep.

00:36:24.960 I think we have accomplished, you know what I mean?

00:36:27.140 Like, we've managed to, there is a massive, like, they don't want to speak like they used to without knowledge or, or, or if it's a cause, it's a cause that, you know, makes sense.

00:36:36.720 It's not a cause of ripping out, taking a job out of an indigenous person's future.

00:36:41.480 Like, and I, and so I think that is a good thing, but my favorite moment of my whole advocacy was not, uh, besides Jake, I was in, uh, I was filming chief, uh, Crystal Smith.

00:36:54.520 Uh, it was a really good video.

00:36:56.420 I finished, um, interviewing her and then this kind of an older guy, like, you know, 56, not older, but like, you know, like middle age plus came up to me and he was almost in tears.

00:37:07.800 He said, uh, you know, I just got a job with the coastal gas link and I'm going to be able to provide my grandkids with a little bit of cash.

00:37:16.360 I've always worked, but I never could get that perfect job.

00:37:18.920 And they had some, and I think he has some disabilities, so he had to, they had to put him through some training and he did really well.

00:37:24.980 And now for the next 10 years of his life, he's going to have the highest paying job he ever had.

00:37:28.680 He's going to leave a little bit of money and it gave him a purpose. 0.99

00:37:32.420 That's, that's, that's what Jane Fonda takes from people with her bullshit. 1.00

00:37:36.900 And, uh, that's what all of them did. 0.99

00:37:38.900 And candidly, I, I mean, they, they, they, they avoid the, avoid me like the plague.

00:37:42.460 So I, you know, it's, uh, that's, I, that's, if I was to say one thing in this anniversary of, uh, you know, the Jane Fonda day, um, I'm happy that she's never come.

00:37:54.380 Yeah.

00:37:55.020 And nobody else has either.

00:37:56.940 Robbie, uh, tell us how people can support the work that you do, um, at oil, sand strong and, and how they can access oil and gas world.

00:38:06.920 Because as I always say, you're sticking up for a family just like mine, but your, um, your advocacy really does stick up for the men and women.

00:38:17.480 Like that man you met when you were filming with chief crystal, um, go to oil and gas world.ca and sign up for a newsletter.

00:38:26.520 And then we are going to be having some, if people want to like find us a little bit or give us like 20 bucks a month.

00:38:32.840 We haven't really done that, but we're going to start now.

00:38:34.980 Um, I've, uh, been, I've got a lot of projects.

00:38:38.960 I've got, um, live in Fort McMurray video series, which is, uh, the reincarnation of my visit Fort McMurray series, Fort McMurray 1000.

00:38:47.200 And then on the bigger scale, oil and gas world magazine travels around the country and we interview people all walks of life.

00:38:53.440 Uh, we've some massive big hitter interviews coming up, but one thing we do is we interview people all equally.

00:39:00.400 So other than the cover photo, everyone gets the same treatment.

00:39:05.940 So, um, yeah, like, so it was, uh, it was the lady that I interviewed when I was at Upsilon Ontario at her gas station, Shannon.

00:39:13.620 Uh, and that's what I, what I truly believe.

00:39:16.380 I, I, I, I believe that, you know, everybody has value and everyone's interesting.

00:39:21.780 And I, and I, and the goal is to humanize conservatives and tell the stories of people that, you know, that are being drowned out by this fate wokeness that we are surrounded in.

00:39:32.440 Right.

00:39:33.200 Yeah.

00:39:33.720 I like that you gave that lady as much space in your magazine as you gave to the premier of Alberta. 0.93

00:39:40.320 I think that says something about you.

00:39:43.220 Thank you.

00:39:45.280 Um, and merch, Robbie, how do people get your merch?

00:39:48.360 Go to allsandstrong.com and buy a ton of merch.

00:39:53.700 Tooks, hats, hoodies.

00:39:55.600 Uh, yeah, we are doing a whole new branding thing and I'm actually teaming up with a friend, Chris, I mean, Chris, and we are going to be taking the bloody line across the world.

00:40:04.420 Um, so that has been a plan.

00:40:06.300 It's just, it's kind of getting, like, upstaffed now.

00:40:08.700 My, my marketing company is doing quite well, but it's, it's hard.

00:40:11.380 Cause like, you know, I've been, it's a bit of a one man show.

00:40:13.460 You know what I mean?

00:40:14.340 I have a bus in a, in a, in a storage facility in Sudbury.

00:40:17.540 I got to figure out when I'm going to get my bus back on the road.

00:40:19.860 So there's always something going on.

00:40:22.640 Robbie, thanks so much for coming on the show and sharing this joyous day with me.

00:40:26.700 It's not only, you know, Jane Fonda anniversary day, but it's not Lee resignation day.

00:40:32.980 Oh, it's been a wild, long ride.

00:40:36.320 Awesome.

00:40:37.360 Thanks, Robbie.

00:40:38.020 Okay, cool.

00:40:38.440 Well, thank you for having me.

00:40:46.780 Well, we've come to the viewer feedback portion of the show.

00:40:51.280 It always comes after the interview and I try to get viewer feedback on last week's show, but sometimes on other things that are happening in and around the company.

00:41:01.400 And as usual, there's completely nothing happening here at rebel news, just boring, trying to find things to talk about.

00:41:08.280 Yeah.

00:41:08.760 Right.

00:41:09.020 I can't keep up to the work that the team is doing in Davos.

00:41:12.720 If you want to see their reports and support their independent journalism from on the ground, from the globalist gathering of the world's power brokers and oligarchs in Switzerland, go to w e f reports.com.

00:41:27.300 I give out my email address right now because I care about what you think about the work that we're doing here at rebel news.

00:41:35.380 Without you, there is no rebel news.

00:41:36.940 I say this every single week, but we get new people here all the time and they have to know what the rules are, too.

00:41:41.520 So, Sheila at rebel news.com, send me an email, put gun show letters in the subject line so that it's easier for me to find, not because I'm a lazy little journalist like those of them working in the mainstream, but because I do get dozens, if not hundreds of emails a day, depending on how rambunctious I have been on the internet or what sort of controversial work we've done here at rebel news.

00:42:10.240 So, gun show letters in the subject line, it's easier for me to find.

00:42:13.260 I appreciate you if you do that for me, but also leave a comment, question, story idea, viewer feedback on any of the platforms wherein you're watching us.

00:42:25.720 For example, if you're watching us on Rumble, leave a comment there.

00:42:28.860 I go poking around over there sometimes to see what you folks are saying.

00:42:32.040 If you're watching us on YouTube, bless your heart for toughing it out through the censorship and being brave enough to post a comment there because YouTube frequently pulls them down.

00:42:43.460 If you've been a little bit too truthy, if you know what I mean.

00:42:46.640 All that is to say, though, today's comment comes to us from YouTube and not on the gun show.

00:42:55.500 However, it is on a story that I did this week.

00:42:58.740 Now, earlier this week, I don't know if you saw it, but I published a story about how the Liberal government, and this is an exclusive story because we painfully watched the government contracts website,

00:43:13.400 that the Feds are blowing $7 million on consultants to advise them on how best to make the Canadian military net zero.

00:43:28.620 Now, I have my suspicions that I think the Liberals' endgame on how to make the Canadian military net zero is to not have a Canadian military at all through a crisis in morale.

00:43:43.400 And a lack of deployment-ready equipment so that nobody ever joins.

00:43:51.580 And so the military just ends through attrition.

00:43:54.700 People retiring, quiet quitting, as the youngsters say, and they just, nobody ever joins.

00:44:01.380 So we just button up the entire department.

00:44:05.960 I mean, that would be what the Liberals would ideally want.

00:44:09.760 No military.

00:44:10.560 Guess what?

00:44:11.420 Net zero military.

00:44:12.320 But anyway, I published that story this week, and I thought, what are people saying about that story?

00:44:19.920 Do they, are they concerned about the woke climate madness now infecting the Canadian military?

00:44:31.500 I mean, they're already infected with wokeness in the upper echelons. 0.99

00:44:35.320 I mean, now you can get feminine hygiene products in the men's room on Canadian forces, bases, and facilities.

00:44:47.320 Now we're worried about the climate and carbon footprint of our tanks and jets, if we can ever get some working jets.

00:44:58.700 Anyway, Joan H., Joan H. 1952 writes on my video on YouTube.

00:45:05.900 First, Trudeau needs to have a net zero private jet fleet that he travels on instead of polluting the planet willy-nilly.

00:45:14.620 There's always Zoom, which would reduce security costs and be good for the environment.

00:45:19.580 Oh, but you can't Zoom yourself to a luxury vacation on your billionaire friend's private island, as the Trudeau family did for Christmas vacation this year.

00:45:36.980 Right? And as I'm recording this, I know Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland is at the World Economic Forum.

00:45:44.600 She easily could have twitched her way through a speech via Zoom.

00:45:51.060 However, she didn't, because who would give up a trip to Davos?

00:45:56.220 I mean, it's like Banff. It's beautiful.

00:46:00.520 And there are lots of high-end restaurants and powerful friends for you to visit and network with.

00:46:08.940 So, it's tough to do over Zoom.

00:46:11.680 They only care about our carbon footprint, not their own.

00:46:15.860 Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.

00:46:17.500 Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:46:19.200 I'll see everybody back here in the same time, in the same place next week.

00:46:22.440 And as always, do not let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.

00:46:52.440 I'll see everybody back here in the same time.

Rebel News Podcast - January 18, 2024

SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Alberta's electricity grid averts catastrophe thanks to coal — but not Alberta coal

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