The choice is clear: Canada needs a hard cap on oil and gas pollution

Canada must limit and reduce oil and gas pollution if it wants to achieve its climate targets. But how that is done is equally as important as the fact that it must be done.

With the hard cap approach, the federal government can set a ceiling on how much total pollution the industry can create, and decrease it over time to align with Canada’s climate commitments. This is what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau originally promised, writes Aly Hyder Ali.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

April 17, 2023

As the Canadian government considers its options to reduce the country's ever-increasing oil and gas pollution, it stands at a fork in the road.

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