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Alberta Water Council among several environmental advisory groups being eliminated for minimal savings
Canadians are basically being told we can’t be scared of what we don’t know. And, we don’t know what we don’t know, right?
Danielle Smith’s UCP is cutting off our ability to assess and track the environmental impacts of 3 major datacentre projects that are proposed for Alberta in Wonder Valley, Mihta Askiy, and Synapse. With the Federal Government also signalling a pull back on Environmental Assessment, experts rightly sound the alarm to state the obvious:
You can’t manage what you don’t measure.
Worse, these projects are not traditional infrastructure projects that provide critical “Public Goods” to society. They’re in many ways long-term investments in data management technologies that may prove to be bad gambles. As of 2026, in the midst of an on-going US-Iran conflict, and what most observers expect will lead to $150 per barrel oil, fuel shortages, fertilizer shortages, and worse, data centres are enormous investments in time, energy, water, and space. In exchange, these Data Centres may lead to contributions in “Artificial Intelligence”, but the reality of the technology is uneven adoption and even less productivity than hoped for.
As the world develops these “AI” products, there’s also an expectation that they become leaner, more efficient, and more performant. When these efficiencies are developed, and become industry changing, whole markets rattle wondering if the existing data centres and their investments were wasted. For example, Canadians can just look at the 2025 release of DeepSeek, which essentially introduced a new competitor to the AI sector, and a model that was indeed more efficient and performant at the same time. At that moment, NVIDIA stocks lost $600 Billion in value.
With additional developments in this space, Canadians can see that the markets continue to rattle in 2026, costing Billions more in losses.
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https://kopitalk.net/c/canada/p/435123/alberta-water-council-among-several-environmental-advisory-groups-being-eliminated-for-m
#ClimateDefense #DataCentres #AlbertaWaterCouncil #WaterforLife #LandStewardshipCentre #WatershedRestorationResiliencyProgram #WonderValley #MihtaAskiy #Synapse #DavidWright #RyanFournier #ImpactAssessmentAgency #NigelBankes
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https://archive.ph/8t9hK
Alberta Water Council among several environmental advisory groups being eliminated for minimal savings
Canadians are basically being told we can’t be scared of what we don’t know. And, we don’t know what we don’t know, right?
Danielle Smith’s UCP is cutting off our ability to assess and track the environmental impacts of 3 major datacentre projects that are proposed for Alberta in Wonder Valley, Mihta Askiy, and Synapse. With the Federal Government also signalling a pull back on Environmental Assessment, experts rightly sound the alarm to state the obvious:
You can’t manage what you don’t measure.
Worse, these projects are not traditional infrastructure projects that provide critical “Public Goods” to society. They’re in many ways long-term investments in data management technologies that may prove to be bad gambles. As of 2026, in the midst of an on-going US-Iran conflict, and what most observers expect will lead to $150 per barrel oil, fuel shortages, fertilizer shortages, and worse, data centres are enormous investments in time, energy, water, and space. In exchange, these Data Centres may lead to contributions in “Artificial Intelligence”, but the reality of the technology is uneven adoption and even less productivity than hoped for.
As the world develops these “AI” products, there’s also an expectation that they become leaner, more efficient, and more performant. When these efficiencies are developed, and become industry changing, whole markets rattle wondering if the existing data centres and their investments were wasted. For example, Canadians can just look at the 2025 release of DeepSeek, which essentially introduced a new competitor to the AI sector, and a model that was indeed more efficient and performant at the same time. At that moment, NVIDIA stocks lost $600 Billion in value.
With additional developments in this space, Canadians can see that the markets continue to rattle in 2026, costing Billions more in losses.
…
https://kopitalk.net/c/canada/p/435123/alberta-water-council-among-several-environmental-advisory-groups-being-eliminated-for-m
#ClimateDefense #DataCentres #AlbertaWaterCouncil #WaterforLife #LandStewardshipCentre #WatershedRestorationResiliencyProgram #WonderValley #MihtaAskiy #Synapse #DavidWright #RyanFournier #ImpactAssessmentAgency #NigelBankes
#AbPoli #AbLeg #CdnPoli
Alberta Water Council among several environmental advisory groups being eliminated for minimal savings - Medicine Hat News
[email protected] The UCP government pulled the plug on an independent council that provided expert advice to the province on water policy. It’s the latest in a string of cuts gutting Alberta’s environmental advisory groups, according to the council’s longest-sitting member. “Consensus decision making is the gold standard for environmental resource management, and that’s being abandoned
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