Will Canada make firm on its climate commitments at COP27?

At the conference, former Canadian environment minister Catherine McKenna, who is in charge of a UN panel on reaching net-zero emissions, lambasted these same companies for committing to net zero while at the same pushing for new fossil fuel projects.

“We set very clear red lines on greenwashing. This is what you cannot do, if you announce publicly, you put up your hand and you say I’m a climate leader,” McKenna said. “You cannot claim to be net zero by continuing to build or invest in new fossil fuel supply.”

She took particular aim at Canadian companies, which are using record profits to buy back shares and increase executive pay, rather than invest in cleaner energy.

“They ask the government for subsidies and then they say it’s not enough,” McKenna said.
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An alternative way of thinking comes to the Legislature – AlbertaPrimeTimes.com

Politicians can change or even reverse policies. They can adapt their speaking style, looks, and alliances. They find it exceptionally difficult to change their basic ways of thinking.

Premier Danielle Smith is firmly habituated to looking for what she calls alternative explanations, meaning reasons to distrust and attack anything she considers to be orthodoxy or the advice of technical experts.

Her mental habits lead her constantly toward highly suspect sources of theories and advice, and into ludicrous or dangerous positions. Saying that Alberta Health Services “manufactured” a staff shortage is only one of a spectacular and expanding list of crackpot notions.

That leaves many questions open until the election next May. The election outcome remains highly uncertain because the New Democrats have to: control their own extreme fringe; play down their association with federal party leader Jagmeet Singh; sell their own supporters on the need to prioritize economic policy; and, generally persuade people they are not like, for example, the self-righteous environmentalist vandals who throw soup or mashed potatoes at historic paintings.
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