Prime Minister Mark Carney says the Trudeau government’s climate plan is no longer feasible as Canada works to grow conventional and clean energy amid instability.
Carney said the previous plan no longer works in a period marked by global conflict, energy insecurity, affordability pressures, and trade tensions with the United States. He said that in response to these pressures, Canada must grow oil and gas production while rapidly expanding low-emissions electricity and nuclear power.
“The changes we have made will mean that our emissions will be higher in the next few years than they were projected to be under the previous government’s plan, but in my judgment that plan was not sustainable over the long term,” Carney said in a June 30 “forward guidance” video posted online….