When you’re in the middle of forest fires, stop adding fuel

Approval for the TMX should be rescinded and all other fossil fuel subsidies abolished. The Government of Canada should divert these funds to supporting electrification and the development and installation of cleaner energy supplies and to building the workforce for tomorrow’s clean-energy infrastructure.

An aerial view of the Donnie Creek Complex fire in northern British Columbia on May 27. Use the pipeline right-of-ways for buried east-west high voltage electric lines and let the hydropower of British Columbia be the storage battery for Alberta’s fast-growing solar production, write the authors. Photograph courtesy of the B.C. Wildfire Service

Opinion

BY TREVOR HANCOCK, DANIEL RAINHAM, AND TIM TAKARO

June 19, 2023

On June 17, 2019, then-environment and climate change minister Catherine McKenna proposed a motion to declare a national climate emergency in Canada. The motion supports Canada’s commitment to meeting the emissions targets outlined in the Paris Agreement. While not a forma...

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