Susan Riley: Instead of continuing the ritual humiliation of pretending to 'work with industry' to lower emissions, feds should shift attention, resources to electrifying transportation, home heating, and energy production. cdnpoli (subs)
Oilsands, pictured in Fort McMurray, Alta., in 2008. How can Ottawa justify billion-dollar programs—to clean up orphan wells, capture fugitive methane emissions, underwrite the construction of $50-billion carbon capture projects of dubious effectiveness—when the industry has emerged from a seven-year downturn rolling in cash? It can’t.
It shouldn’t bother trying, writes Susan Riley.CHELSEA, QUE.—Is there anyone in Canada—anyone?—who believes that Justin Trudeau’s government is serious about tackling climate change? It seems unlikely, given the ongoing failure to contain emissions from Alberta’s oil patch, the single largest domestic source of the greenhouse gases that are damaging our planet.Enjoy unlimited website access and the digital newspaper.
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