Oil demand drop, renewable energy resiliency prompts calls for federal clean energy investment in economic recovery

Demand for renewable energy is set to increase in 2020, according to the International Energy Agency. 'We have an amazing chance to do a really large societal rethink,' says Green Party MP Elizabeth May.

Green Party MP Elizabeth May, left, Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, right. Ms. May says 'the disruptive technology is here—the fact that, in a pandemic, when demand for everything is down, even against those headwinds, demand for renewable energy is up.'The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

May 20, 2020

Following recent evidence showing that renewable energy hasn’t shared the same fate as oil and gas, which have seen recent and dramatic drops in demand amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Green Party MP Elizabeth May is calling on the federal government to support the renewable sector over the beleaguered...

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