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Conservatives call on Elon Musk to step in after Liberals provide loan to Ottawa-based satellite operator (www.ctvnews.ca)
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A $2.14-billion federal loan for an Ottawa-based satellite operator has Canadian politicians arguing about whether American billionaire Elon Musk poses a national security risk.

The fight involves internet connectivity in remote regions as Canada tries to live up to its promise to connect every Canadian household to high-speed internet by 2030.

A week ago, the Liberal government announced the loan to Telesat, which is launching a constellation of low Earth orbit satellites that will be able to connect the most remote areas of the country to broadband internet.

Conservative MP Michael Barrett objected to the price tag, asking Musk in a social media post how much it would cost to provide his Starlink to every Canadian household that does not have high-speed access.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yes. Burning debris in the upper atmosphere has unknown effets on the environment, plus the exploitation of rare earth metal that cannot be recycled and the energy expenditure. Musk want to burn more satellites per year than what we ever launched prior to this, and every other greedy company wants to follow suit with their own junk.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

The paper someone links to, shows that meteoroids already dump more than 11.7k metric tons into the atmosphere every year. We know what effects it has.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

Burning debris in the upper atmosphere has unknown effets on the environment,

Man, just wait until you find out about naturally occurring meteors... They're loaded with metal and are vaporized in the upper atmosphere 24x7x365... and have been doing so for pretty much all of the 4 billion years the planet has been around.