For Canadian resource workers, a just transition is the best path forward

The alternative to a managed and just transition is not the status quo, but rather an unpredictable and unjust transition reminiscent of so many previous resource busts.

Canadian history is littered with devastating resource busts, including the B.C. forestry industry in the west, but history doesn’t need to repeat itself if there’s a proper transition to a lower-carbon economy, writes Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood. Flickr photograph courtesy of Michael Nugent

Opinion

BY HADRIAN MERTINS-KIRKWOOD

December 11, 2019

For a country as dependent on resource extraction as Canada, the global shift away from oil, gas, and coal toward renewable energy sources presents obvious challenges. In addition to accounting for nearly one-tenth of GDP, the fossil fuel industry employs more than 200,000 people across the country....

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