This story from Canada is interesting. In America, the secular left wants to use global warming myths to control energy production and energy consumption. I call it “global warming socialism”. They want to force people to own smaller homes, stop using electricity, stop owning gas cars, stop having children, stop owning appliances, and so on. Let’s look at how it works in Alberta, Canada.

Here’s the story from Canada’s far-left CTV:

Albertans were asked for the second evening in a row on Saturday to limit their electricity usage to essential needs only.

According to an alert issued by the Alberta Emergency Management Agency to all cell phones shortly before 7 p.m., a high demand for power during the extreme cold placed the province at a “high risk” of rotating power outages.

“On top of high demand of our own energy generation, Alberta’s grid receives electricity from neighbouring provinces. Extreme weather in Saskatchewan and British Columbia is impacting electricity sharing, which is also a contributing factor to tonight’s grid alert,” Nathan Neudorf, the province’s utilities minister, said in a statement.

“The Alberta Electric System Operator has activated its emergency grid management plan to work with local distribution utilities to avoid potential rolling brownouts.”

[…]A similar request was made of Albertans on Friday, when the Alberta Electric System Operator recorded a new record for power use.

How come Saskatchewan has power to share, but Alberta doesn’t? Well, Alberta had elected a far-left communist Rachel Notley as Premier, and she embraced Green New Deal energy policies. Notley has no earned STEM degrees, and no relevant private sector STEM experience. She literally knows nothing about mathematics or science. And that’s what Alberta voters wanted. They wanted a pretty face to tell them things that felt good, and made people like them. They didn’t want a problem solver. Now, Alberta has to beg for energy from their neighbor, Saskatchewan. Because she shut down their cheap, reliable energy production from 2015-2019.

Wikipedia says:

On November 22, 2015, Notley unveiled Alberta’s updated climate change strategy, in time for the COP 21 conference in Paris. The plan included an economy-wide carbon price starting in 2017 and a cap on emissions from the oil sands. The plan also included a phase-out of coal-fired electricity by 2030, a 10-year goal to halve methane emissions, as well as incentives for renewable energy.

In November 2016, $1.4 billion was paid to compensate three major Albertan power producers (ATCO, Capital Power, and Transalta) to expedite the transition caused by the closure of six coal-fired power plants. The compensation was derived from the carbon tax and was to be paid over a period of 14 years.[48]

Over in Saskatchewan, they elected a very conservative premier, who rejects green energy policies.

Far-left CTV reports on that:

Saskatchewan provided Alberta with over 150 megawatts of power over the weekend – as the province faced the possibility of rotating power outages due to extreme cold.

In a post to X Saturday evening, Premier Scott Moe announced the province was assisting its western neighbour.

“SaskPower is providing 153 MW of electricity to AB this evening to assist them through this shortage,” Moe said in the post.

The premier added that the electricity would be provided by SaskPower’s natural gas and coal-fired power plants – taking the opportunity to criticize the federal government’s environmental policies.

“That power will be coming from natural gas and coal-fired plants, the ones the Trudeau government is telling us to shut down (which we won’t),” Moe said.

As Americans, we have to learn from the mistakes of other countries. We have people in America who want to impose Green New Deal socialism policies. They don’t know how to do math. They’ve never solved a problem in the private sector. But they have tremendous confidence in their moral superiority over you. They think they should be allowed to decide how much energy companies can produce, and how much energy you can use, and what kind of car you can drive, and how many kids you can afford. Their brains are filled with irrational, unfounded fears about overpopulation, resource exhaustion, and other untestable, indefensible nonsense. Don’t let them get control of your country.