Since then, provincial and federal ministers have sparred over the controversial decision, exposing tensions between Alberta, which favours natural gas for power generation, and the governing Liberals, who have the broader ambition to decarbonize electrical grids across the country by 2035.
Wow, damn.
I mean if it were nuclear, that’d be one thing as a stop-over. As in, you got the nuclear power plants, you were supposed to decommision X% by 202X, but since money is needed everywhere and only so many people exist to work on issues you’re pushing that out to focus on reforestation, decommissioning coal/gas plants, etc etc.
That’s one thing. In fact I wish Germany hadn’t in the wake of Fukushima omg-scare-closed our nuclear power plants and instead just hard-closed all gas and coal plants. But eh, bit late to worry about that one now. Still, opting for fossil over either nuclear or fully renewable is… a bit of an odd choice, yeah. To put it mildly.