Alberta's Two Step Climate Shuffle
Post published in Globe and Mail June 26, 2015 Alberta has reset its climate policy. Provincial Environment Minister Shannon Phillips committed Thursday to put an end date on Alberta’s much maligned GHG policy while aligning its carbon price at or above its trading partners. Alberta has put in place a two-step process to transition the narrowly defined Specified Gas Emitters Regulation (SGER) to something else. In the first step, the SGER will be updated with increased costs
Low prices and rising global political will are shifting future of the oil sands
Originally printed in the Globe and Mail June 20, 2015 One can hardly blame oil sands investors for discounting the carbon rhetoric that politicians have so liberally splashed around. The history of carbon policy in Canada and abroad is one of pledge and backslide, where aspirational commitments to reduce deep greenhouse-gas emissions have not been matched with policy action. Federal oil-and-gas regulations are the poster child for this. Industry, the provinces and the federa