What gets lost in the rapid transition to electric vehicles?

Renewable energy should be designed to have minimal environmental impacts and place no extra pollution burdens on communities at either end of the transmission line.

Homeowners shore up sandbags around a Constance Bay, Ont., home on April 30, 2019, amid Ottawa River Valley flooding. Future droughts and floods could potentially create profound challenges for hydropower projects in Canada as well as reductions in the river runoff and evaporation of water in reservoirs, writes Sen. Mary Jane McCallum. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SENATOR MARY JANE MCCALLUM

March 29, 2023

There are many variables that need to be considered in the rapid transition from fossil fuels to electric vehicles (EVs), including the cost of vehicles; charging station proliferation; geography; power required to support the grids; grid integrity; mining and cost of batter...

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