Letter from Premier Smith to Prime Minister Trudeau
Premier Danielle Smith invited Ottawa this week to collaborate with Alberta on carbon capture, utilization and storage investment and halt the introduction of Just Transition legislation and an oil and gas emissions cap.
“Dear Prime Minister:
I am writing in follow up to our meeting of February 7th, during which we discussed the need for the Government of Canada to halt introduction of the proposed Just Transition legislation and implementation of unachievable targets and measures under the federal Emissions Reduction Plan (ERP) such as the Clean Electricity Regulations (CER) and oil and gas sector emissions cap.
As a much more productive alternative, I invited your government to agree to commencing a collaborative effort between Ottawa and Alberta to develop a series of cooperative initiatives to attract investment and workers into Alberta’s emerging, conventional and non-conventional energy sectors while substantially reducing Canada’s and Alberta’s net emissions.