Not feeling well
Hannah can tell that I'm not feeling very well.
"You're getting edgy," she tells me, though I think she means "mean". I shout more. I shout sooner. That I shout at all should have been my first clue.
Today I was shouting at Griz because the net metering policy that I'd been promising him was coming for over a year now was released recently.
"You've been saying we're going to get net metering," he said to me as we unpacked our lunches in the CEBAB lunchroom.
"Yes," I told him. "Yes, it'll happen."
"Do you know how much people feeding in will get?" he asked me in that tone that broadcasts that the net metering policy is out and he already know the answer to his question.
"Wholesale," I answered. "People will have to pay the retail price to buy off the grid, and they'll only be paid the wholesale price to sell into it."
"One cent a kilowatt," Griz said, in a tone that I read as it was my fault that the net metering policy will only allow net metering to occur and that the financial incentive for people to actually employ it is non-existent. That was when I flew off the handle at him; ranting about all the people who think any environmental group that has Societies Act incorporation is sitting around waiting for the phone to ring so that we can help them stop whatever industrial facility is going up across their street and how no one wants to work on the vast suite of policies being developed all the time that, yes, would make broad societal changes if they were designed the right way but can't seem to generate any interest among the not-in-my-backyard set so a dwindling number of people like Amandi and me spend whatever time we can fit trying to keep tabs on them, which, for net metering, consisted of an annual question to an Alberta Energy employee asking him to get the policy out.
"I'm actually starting to appreciate the Alberta Government," I told Griz. "That they produce policies that pose a distant threat to the status quo without any real help from anybody is actually quite commendable." I used both the net-metering policy and the Selected Gas Emitters Regulation as examples. Somehow these policies got out the door, and yes, they're crappy and won't do much of anything the way they are, but they are like stereos with the volume turned down. All they need is to be dialed up.
"Now all you need to get through is an amendment to the net metering policy changing the one-cent to twenty-cents and you have exactly what you want," I told Griz. "The SGER has two dials on it: right now it applies to 12% of emissions per facility at $15 per tonne (of CO2). All you have to do now is dial it up to 100% and $35 per tonne and you'll have what you want..."
Amandi has a project idea: The Joy of Policy, which will be targeted to young people to show them that policy development is where the real work happens and differences are actually made.
I'm looking forward to it.
"You're getting edgy," she tells me, though I think she means "mean". I shout more. I shout sooner. That I shout at all should have been my first clue.
Today I was shouting at Griz because the net metering policy that I'd been promising him was coming for over a year now was released recently.
"You've been saying we're going to get net metering," he said to me as we unpacked our lunches in the CEBAB lunchroom.
"Yes," I told him. "Yes, it'll happen."
"Do you know how much people feeding in will get?" he asked me in that tone that broadcasts that the net metering policy is out and he already know the answer to his question.
"Wholesale," I answered. "People will have to pay the retail price to buy off the grid, and they'll only be paid the wholesale price to sell into it."
"One cent a kilowatt," Griz said, in a tone that I read as it was my fault that the net metering policy will only allow net metering to occur and that the financial incentive for people to actually employ it is non-existent. That was when I flew off the handle at him; ranting about all the people who think any environmental group that has Societies Act incorporation is sitting around waiting for the phone to ring so that we can help them stop whatever industrial facility is going up across their street and how no one wants to work on the vast suite of policies being developed all the time that, yes, would make broad societal changes if they were designed the right way but can't seem to generate any interest among the not-in-my-backyard set so a dwindling number of people like Amandi and me spend whatever time we can fit trying to keep tabs on them, which, for net metering, consisted of an annual question to an Alberta Energy employee asking him to get the policy out.
"I'm actually starting to appreciate the Alberta Government," I told Griz. "That they produce policies that pose a distant threat to the status quo without any real help from anybody is actually quite commendable." I used both the net-metering policy and the Selected Gas Emitters Regulation as examples. Somehow these policies got out the door, and yes, they're crappy and won't do much of anything the way they are, but they are like stereos with the volume turned down. All they need is to be dialed up.
"Now all you need to get through is an amendment to the net metering policy changing the one-cent to twenty-cents and you have exactly what you want," I told Griz. "The SGER has two dials on it: right now it applies to 12% of emissions per facility at $15 per tonne (of CO2). All you have to do now is dial it up to 100% and $35 per tonne and you'll have what you want..."
Amandi has a project idea: The Joy of Policy, which will be targeted to young people to show them that policy development is where the real work happens and differences are actually made.
I'm looking forward to it.