Went on the tour with an open mind, but maintains her belief that we have to transition away from fossil fuels
VICTORIA — Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps says her thinking on resource extraction wasn’t shifted by a recent tour of the Alberta oilsands.
“They explained how that in developing the plant they had studied wildlife movements to learn where wildlife bridges need to be built and — where possible — they work around sensitive wildlife habitat,” Helps writes. “There are two things that the two paradigms have in common. One is a barrel of oil — we use the oil that they produce. The other is human creativity and innovation,” she writes.
“I see it in individual homes and businesses. We need to continue to mine Canada’s human capital and put it to work to its full potential,” she writes.
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