Post by 10inchtopsoil on Jan 9, 2023 15:45:46 GMT -6
www.albertafarmexpress.ca/news/the-bid-to-irrigate-east-central-alberta/?mc_cid=0c89fb47b2&mc_eid=991b92c437
They are somehow insinuating that irrigation will replace oil and gas jobs disappearing from the area. Can someone tune me in? Is there really that much more work in irrigation? S'pose supplying, installing, and maintaining the infrastructure would keep a few more people around...
What a windfall for the guys who already own land. Number crunchers are estimating a cost of 12,300/ac of which the farmers are only on the hook for 2,500 to 5,000.
How much of the current irrigation reservoir replenishment relies on glacier melt? Is there a point sometime in the next few decades where glaciers disappear and these irrigation projects are short water in low snowfall years that don't replenish the reservoirs?
They are somehow insinuating that irrigation will replace oil and gas jobs disappearing from the area. Can someone tune me in? Is there really that much more work in irrigation? S'pose supplying, installing, and maintaining the infrastructure would keep a few more people around...
What a windfall for the guys who already own land. Number crunchers are estimating a cost of 12,300/ac of which the farmers are only on the hook for 2,500 to 5,000.
How much of the current irrigation reservoir replenishment relies on glacier melt? Is there a point sometime in the next few decades where glaciers disappear and these irrigation projects are short water in low snowfall years that don't replenish the reservoirs?
