Thomson: Why Alberta’s Danielle Smith is sending her own team to the COP27 global climate summit via torontostar
“We’re over there to represent the interests of Albertans and the views of Albertans and not to be in a fight with the federal government,” Savage said in an interview for this column.“The reason why we are sending our own delegation is I don’t believe that we’re being properly represented by Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault. He clearly is hostile to our oil and gas sector, he’s clearly trying to step into areas he’s got no business regulating,” Smith said Monday.
That’s why Savage will be in Egypt, to make sure Ottawa, as Smith says repeatedly, “stays in its lane.”While it’s true provinces have exclusive jurisdiction over exploiting their natural resources, protecting the environment is a shared responsibility between the provinces and the federal government. They share the lane.
Savage is no pushover. A lawyer by profession, she was a strong proponent for Alberta’s energy industry even before entering politics, including working as a lobbyist for the pipeline company, Enbridge. Upon entering politics in 2019, she became Alberta’s energy minister. Savage is certainly smart, articulate and knows all about the struggle by Alberta’s energy industry to reduce its emissions. She is also often an apologist for the energy industry, and Smith is signalling to her Conservative base and the energy industry that when it comes to energy versus the environment, Alberta’s United Conservative government clearly stands with oil and gas.
Smith, on the other hand, is taking a different tack. In fact, two tacks: one pragmatic; the other Machiavellian.
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