Alberta Environment Minister Sonya Savage says Ottawa must stop using the term “just transition,” a framework she believes is shorthand for phasing out Canada’s oil and gas industry.
Industry leaders in Alberta have criticized the government's rollout of a plan to capture carbon dioxide emissions underground as ineffective and lacking transparency, saying it has delayed billions of dollars of investment and increased costs.
Alberta's top court said Tuesday that the federal government's environmental impact law is unconstitutional and Ottawa almost immediately announced its plan to appeal.