Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s fixation on oil fields is a misplaced focus on the economy of yesterday, an environmental lawyer says.
“The idea of building this [Trans Mountain pipeline] expansion, which essentially locks in production and expansion of the oil sands for the next several decades, is the exact wrong direction we need to go,” Eugene Kung, lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law, told Anna Maria Tremonti on The Current.
“It’d be like building a Blockbuster Video franchise in 2012.”
He argued that Alberta should instead invest its attention and efforts toward renewable energy and transitioning oil sands workers to new work.