Late last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith unveiled a fresh energy pact that sets the stage for a new pipeline extending to the West Coast. The agreement includes a scheme for industrial carbon pricing and is dependent on the approval of the Pathways project, which involves a proposed facility for carbon capture, utilization, and storage.
The deal received criticism from environmentalists who argued that the Liberals are compromising the climate objectives they had been legislating for nearly a decade. Climate journalist Arno Kopecky, a contributor to publications like The Narwhal and Canada’s National Observer, joins us to discuss whether Mark Carney is undermining his own environmental principles and the groundwork laid by the Liberals over the past ten years.
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