Where in your picture are Albertens winning is the Nissan Leaf build in Alberta so that jobs lost in the Oil industry get taken up by the Electric Car industry?
And there is that magic word "Sustainable" it really means that a resource is rationed by others for you not controlled by the marketplace.
I have yet to see the "Sustainable Technology" that in the real world is cheaper than fossil fuels.
Some Technologies only appear cheaper for the end-consumer as they are heavily subsidized and we all end up paying the full price with our taxes.

Bam right there 80% of Albertans out of a job and definitely can't afford to buy your heat pump or your electric car, for 30,000 bucks you can buy another compact car for say 16,000 and drive it 200,000 km before you break even with your electric car.
Today you can expect to drive 200,000 km with a car with no major repair but how long will the Battery in your electric car last?

Next year will be the first year Nissan brings the Leaf to market (the first time a mass produced EV has ever been offered) so the prices can’t really be viewed as being typical of what we can expect, except of course that they will only go down. The battery will be leased by Nissan, and after 5 years they will replace it with a newer one for you. By then maybe the batteries will last long enough that you’d want to buy your own, who knows. But Nissan has stated that the total cost of ownership of a Leaf will be less than an equivalent gasoline powered car. That’s next year!

So it’s reasonable to assume that when economies of scale start to bring prices down you will be able to buy a Leaf-like car for about $20,000 all inclusive …. for a car that is as fast as a Porsche and costs $25 a month to charge. That will mark the beginning of the end of the internal combustion engine used for passenger vehicles. This will of course be starting next year, and really be in full swing within 5 years since every automaker will be bringing EV’s to market.

It’s too bad for Alberta that there will be a mass market shift over to EV’s ….. but that’s my money you guys are building your houses with! I’d rather pay $25 a month to drive my car than $200, and keep the $175 for other uses! The oil sands is not a legitimate industry anyways and Albertans can’t say they weren’t warned, since I’m doing it right now! Ed Stelmach, the onus is now on you to transfer this message to your citizens so that they can plan for their future!

Unfortunately, that’s what happens when you build economies based on unsustainable activities --- they eventually flop and then everyone runs around screaming about the contracting economy. Well, if we hadn’t developed that industry in the first place we wouldn’t have been swimming in absurd profits for a short time, but we also wouldn’t have a dead economy when it flops. It’s typical boom and bust. It’s what will happen to Saudi Arabia when its oil runs out and it will happen to Alberta when no one wants oil anymore and the price drops down to a bit higher than what electricity is, somewhere around $20 a barrel. There will still be a demand for aviation fuel and diesel so this will keep the price of oil a bit above electricity. Will the oil sands still be profitable at this price?

The oil industry has artificially created a monopoly in transportation options via Chevron’s patent manipulation of the NiMH battery, which automakers have circumvented by using lithium ion batteries. If it weren’t for this then we would have had electric cars out 10 years ago and Alberta would be feeling the slump right now so I can’t have too much sympathy for them. Here’s the official announcement right now: you have 10 years left of happy profit times. There really isn’t anything left for the oil industry to do to stop this, it is out of their control now. They could try to buy up all the lithium mines in the world and shut them down, but by that time Chevron’s NiMH patent will have expired and we will again have access to those batteries on a free market.

To all Concerned Canadians: The suggestions for heat pumps & electric cars are well intentioned but misguided.
1) Heat pumps have their place, but unfortunately their applicability is very limited. In most locales in Canada, a heat pump would actually consume more energy, not less than using natural gas furnaces or boilers. A heat pump is simply a refrigerator running in reverse, taking heat from the cold outside air & "pumping" into the building we want to heat. There's just not enough heat in our cold winter air to make heat pumps efficient. In warmer areas, where temperatures are normally above -10 C or so, heat pumps can be an efficient heat source. Ironically, these are the very locations where summer air conditioning uses much more energy than winter heating.
2) Electric cars! That go as fast as a Porsche! And Only $25 per month to charge! If any of this is even 10% true these cars will sell like hotcakes. In fact of course, we know they won't. Electricity is the most expensive source of energy we consume. Electric cars will not cost less to run until electricity costs less than gasoline. 1 megawatt hour (MwH) of electricity is 3,600 megajoules (MJ) of energy & will cost the average consumer approximately $60-$80 for energy consumption & about as much again for the energy demand charge. Say about $150 total per MwH for electricity. One hundred liters of gasoline contain about the same amount of energy (~3,500 MJ) and costs about $80-$90. So even with the lower efficiency of the gasoline engine, you're still going to pay at least as much for electricity as gasoline to drive the same distance.

But of course the real test for electric cars is the limited driving range. And the real test for self proclaimed environmentalists is how much are they (you) willing to give up in convenience and hard earned dollars to reach your goals? The proof is in the pudding, but I'm not betting that electric cars are going to be taking over the market.

For myself, I intend to make my charitable donations to humanitarian organizations. I think they will do much better things with it & humanity will be much better off than if I spend it on shaky environmental theories.