Climate-resilient infrastructure: a burning platform

Recent climate-related disasters are shining a bright light on another serious problem: their huge negative impact on critical infrastructure, deepened by infrastructure failings.

Minister of Housing, Infrastructure, and Communities Sean Fraser. Too often, infrastructure investments seem to be at the mercy of political gamesmanship between parties and orders of government, writes Rodrigue Gilbert.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY RODRIGUE GILBERT

September 11, 2024

The risks of our changing climate are getting more obvious. In 2021, torrential rains, flooding, and landslides took out highways and railways, cutting off Canada’s largest port—the Port of Vancouver—shutting down the Trans Mountain pipeline, and forcing the evacuation...

To keep reading, subscribe and become a political insider.

Only $7.76 a week for an annual subscription.

Enjoy unlimited website access and the digital newspaper.

Cancel anytime.

Already a Subscriber?

Get Tuesdays: Innovation & Industry Newsletter

The policies, decisions, and people working on investment and regulation in the industry and innovation realm.

By entering your email address you consent to receive email from The Hill Times containing news, analysis, updates and offers. You may unsubscribe at any time. See our privacy policy