Canada’s oil and gas industry faces an existential crisis and a weak emissions cap won’t save it

Ottawa’s job is to ensure that the inevitable transition is as smooth as possible by sending a clear signal to the industry to clean up its pollution.

The Albian Sands site in Alberta in 2014. Canada’s biggest oil producers are making record profits, so they have cash on hand they could invest in reducing their pollution, write Amy Janzwood, Sam Rowan, and Josh Medicoff. Pembina Institute photograph by Julia Kilpatrick/Flickr

Opinion

BY AMY JANZWOOD, SAM ROWAN, JOSH MEDICOFF

March 8, 2023

As the Alberta United Conservative Party denigrates federal attempts at emissions regulation in re-election political theatre, the federal government may

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