From the Editor: A widening gulf [Gas in Transition]
From the Editor: A widening gulf [Gas in Transition]
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From the Editor: A widening gulf [Gas in Transition]
Summary
The Conference of the Parties, meeting in the Persian Gulf oil state of the UAE, have reluctantly agreed to move away from fossil fuels, but the Canadian delegation’s efforts to push that agenda don’t sit well with Alberta. [Gas in Transition, Volume 3, Issue 12] by: Dale Lunan
The 28th Conference of the Parties ended in the United Arab Emirates, on the shores of the Persian Gulf, with a grudging agreement by 198 Parties to begin transitioning away from fossil fuels. For Canada and Alberta, however, COP28 ended with a gulf of another kind – an ever-widening chasm between the ambitious climate goals of Ottawa and Alberta’s more realistic aspirations, framed by affordability and availability. In the weeks leading up to COP, Steven Guilbeault, now Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada but in a previous life a climate activist for Greenpeace, introdu...
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