Pumping more oil while the house burns down: how long will the fantasy last?

Fossil fuels still hugely contribute to provincial coffers and the federal treasury, but too so would green energy alternatives if given a chance to flourish instead of being undermined by the Alberta government.

Last summer's forest fires in Alberta. With a few exceptions, our politicians are divided into two camps: the stout defenders of the oil and gas industry regardless of damage to the sector’s greenhouse gas emissions cause; or, those rhetorically committed to addressing climate change, but, maybe next decade, or in 2050.Photograph courtesy of Cpl. Marc-André Leclerc, DND Canada

Opinion

BY SUSAN RILEY

July 29, 2024

CHELSEA, QUE.—You really wonder what it's going to take to shake us from our willful blindness.

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