As politicians debate the meaning of \u0027just transition,\u0027 Luisa DaSilva gets on with job of helping fossil fuel workers learn new skills
Listening to Luisa’s stories of on-the-ground experiences with communities in transition, it’s easy to see why MPs recognize her pragmatism. She’s been a fly-in, fly-out geologist living in the work camps of northern Alberta’s oilsands, and she’s worked on mine sites in Sweden, the Solomon Islands and Mexico. And, I note with gratitude, she doesn’t virtue-signal or speak in jargon.
“All you need to build confidence are people in the community seeing that change is possible,” Luisa replies. “People need to see that something is happening differently. Even a five per cent change is enough to shift confidence.” What she says rings true. When my parents transitioned from growing tobacco, to cultivate ginseng instead, others in the neighbourhood were encouraged.Article content
It’s all quite confusing, we agree, with governments acting at cross-purposes. “Who gets to decide the narrative?” I wonder aloud: “Top-down policy wonks like Gerald Butts in the prime minister’s inner sanctum; provincial politicians facing an election in a few months’ time; or the people in the communities in transition?”Article content
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