Plan? What Plan? Alberta’s Energy Future

Canadian Business Online – The blueprint, which was recently sent to “energy stakeholders” for comment, is billed as the vision of Greg Melchin, the politician in charge of Alberta’s powerful ministry of energy (which supplies the province with about 33% of its revenue). It calls for “an aggressive pace of development” for oil, gas and coal, and also envisions more exports to China and the United States. Remarkably, the words “energy conservation” or “efficiency” rarely appear, and global warming gets short shift altogether, as though the clouds of carbon dioxide pouring out of the oilsands simply don’t exist. Even the term “peak oil” (the point at which extraction begins to decline) fails to get a nod.
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