Alberta is charting its own course on emissions Danielle Smith said in a meeting with Ottawa, the first since the provincial election. Read on.
He did not say whether that would mean changes to the timelines for those policies.
Smith said she instead proposed a bilateral working group be set up immediately between Ottawa and the province to work on ways to incentivize carbon capture and other emissions-reducing infrastructure for the fossil fuels and electricity sectors. The group would also set “reasonable and achievable milestones” to reduce emissions in those sectors through to 2050, she said.
She said scrapping the jobs transition plan was a “non-negotiable condition” of Alberta investing more for carbon capture and storage in the oilsands. On June 19, Smith’s concerns about that bill seemed to have mostly vanished, including because of the name change. She said calling it a just transition “set the expectation of phasing out oil and natural gas workers completely.”Article content
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