Best pathway for clean electricity is to leave fossil fuels behind

As climate impacts intensify, and clean electricity solutions are lying in wait, the federal government has a choice: to lock in benefits for communities or lock in profits for the fossil fuel executives.

Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault, pictured on the Hill. Canada's on the verge of securing a federal policy on clean electricity that could cut more than 340 million tonnes of its greenhouse gas emissions by 2050—the same amount as removing 74 million cars from the road for a year, writes Stephen Thomas. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

October 16, 2023

As people throughout Canada struggle with rising costs, a foundational regulation for the energy transition promises to make energy more reliable and affordable for households—but only if loopholes and extensions that favour continuing fossil fuel generation are addressed....

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