These are the same communities that are still being serviced for electricity by temporary diesel turbines and which the utility wanted to replace by... new diesel turbines. If they can have geothermal greenhouses can't they also have geothermal energy?

Well, there is a good faith argument to be made that if rock weathering is potentially effective there needs to be a mechanism available to fund multiple pilot projects that try to scale up the process. The fact we don't know if it will work is not itself a reason not to try.

The population of Stephenville plus Port au Port E is around 7,000. GH2 offered $10m of "unbudgeted money" to the area (as well as jobs and other spinoff benefits). Hardly nothing even if it's a small fraction of potential profits! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Sure there's room for small scale wind power for communities (especially now it is legal 🙄) But the large-scale wind proposals also being suggested here do have money set aside for community benefit; and jobs, tax revenues and feeding surplus back to NL Hydro are wider benefits worth considering?

Haven't been out to talk to many wind protesters in person out West but the ones that made it to St John's and the majority of those posting in anti-turbine Facebook groups are not protesting for more community benefits or fairer net metering. They're recycling bad faith myths and conspiracies.

It's bad but not annual emissions of UK and France bad?! "For context, the Conservatives’ gap in 2030 would be nearly equivalent to the entire annual emissions of Bangladesh. The Liberals’ gap in the same year would be roughly the size of Kuwait’s annual emissions."