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Party leader and Alberta premier Danielle Smith used victory speech to attack the prime minister’s climate policies
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Party leader and Alberta premier Danielle Smith used victory speech to attack the prime minister’s climate policies
A plan to help approximately 600,000 Alberta customers deal with a spike in their power bills earlier this year will have a lengthy hangover, a Calgary economist says.
“This report is a red herring and it’s playing into political misinformation,” said Blake Shaffer, an assistant professor in the University of Calgary’s economics department.
A new report that explores a hypothetical scenario on the path to achieving Canada's net-zero emissions target by 2050 is raising eyebrows among some public policy experts.
All of this debate leaves power generators watching the political landscape, and awaiting key decisions on climate policy.