RE:Project ManagementOldnagger wrote: Three generations of my family have been involved in project management at some point in our career. Project management was always challenging and often humbling. Many diverse interests needed to be reconciled and decisions had to be made sometimes without even knowing that special care and expertise were required. Success was often regarded as quite normal while failure could be career destroying. Nevertheless it was exhilerating.
My point is this, with the brave new world that the politicians are laying out for us, there will be a requirement for superb project management How any one will be able to weave together the requisite legal financial technical and most importantly social inputs for successful project mannagement is mind boggling in todays environment.
I do not doubt that sooner or later there will be a need to replace hydrocarbons. But if Canadians want to be part of the solution then there will need to be a comprehensive plan that is unifying rather than divisive Who will lead this effort ? I am not political , but it will surely require a Leader who can put his own interests second and rise to the challenge. Necessity is the mother of invention, perhaps Necessity will provide the answers.
For a start it might help if all the powers that be would drop the "panic" mode, fear mongering, we must do it tomorrow approach to everything. Everyone can likely accept a sensible approach to transitioning to new methods of energy, transportation, power, etc. on the basis that fossil fuels are likely not going to last forever. They can also understand a well laid out plan that includes good technology changes that have been proven out and scheduled over a time frame that allows for all the associated infrastructure to change as well.
Trying to stuff everything down everyone's throat by scaring them to death and not having a well thought out plan where all the details have been covered and then on top of that hitting them up with taxes that have little support as to the purpose they are achieving is just a path to disaster and thus gets more dissention than support.
The main story you hear is all about wind and solar as being the new green technology that will save the world.
Show me in reasonable detail all the practicalities of how that will work out for our Provinces and Territories. Where will all this stuff be installed? What are the costs? What are all the downsides? How does it all compare to our current supplies? Are there better alternatives? What's a reasonable time frame?
Just a whole raft of information that is needed to make a rational decision and that is what our Politicians should be doing and then presenting it to the public as a time sensitive, cost sensitive plan and not this current "Trust me, I'm a politician".
Personally I get fed up with this constant nattering about we have to meet the Paris Accord targets on green house gas emissions by 2035. That means nothing but b.s. to me. It's as bad as Al Gore giving us 10 years and then when that passed giving us another 10 years and now Ocasio-Cortez and her buddies giving us another 12 years. Just a pile of junkie words - useless as ..... on a boar. Political pandering!
Pandering is the act of expressing one's views in accordance with the likes of a group to which one is attempting to appeal. ... In pandering, the views one is expressing are merely for the purpose of drawing support up to and including votes and do not necessarily reflect one's personal values.