Federal Energy Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s claim that Canada can achieve carbon neutrality in 2050 while simultaneously increasing oil and gas production is “incoherent.”
Smith has long argued that carbon neutrality is about a transition away from emissions and not a transition away from oil and gas production, a source of energy she insists will be dominant globally for decades to come.
“I think Premier Smith’s argument actually is just logically incoherent,” Wilkinson said in interview with CBC Radio’s The House that will air Saturday. “Nobody who actually believes in fighting climate change could ever come to that
