“The
Alberta NDP have done a lot relative to previous governments,” Hussey
noted of the party’s environmental track record, “but way less than is
scientifically necessary to address the size of the climate crisis.”

“On the other hand, for their main competitor — the UCP — their plan is to undo everything the NDP has done.”

In the current election campaign, no politician wants to pony up and tell the truth.

It wasn’t foreigners or bad actors who
created Alberta’s failings; it was Albertans and their damn greed and
lack of strategic planning.

There were virtually no safeguards against the practice.

From
a sample of 49 email addresses selected by CBC News, due to suspicious
domains, from a list of over 100,000 UCP members, 31 were used to cast
votes in the leadership vote.

But some of Canada’s top energy thinkers – as well as international experts – warn there’s no pedal any premier can stomp to make that engine rev like it used to.

“No policy of any Alberta government can change things,” said Mark Jaccard, an energy economist at B.C.’s Simon Fraser University, who has advised governments on climate policy and helps write reports for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.