Alberta emissions reduction plan lacking progress: Report [Video]

Alberta has done little to advance its plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions a year after introducing it, an analysis suggests.

“Based on this lack of progress, it doesn’t appear that Alberta has an active climate plan,” Simon Dyer of the clean energy think-tank Pembina Institute said Friday. “It’s a plan in name only.”

Alberta Environment and Protected Areas was not immediately able to offer a comment on the Pembina report.

On April 19, 2023, the United Conservative Party government released its Emissions Reduction and Energy Development plan. Its stated goal was to “enhance (Alberta’s) position as a global leader in emissions reductions, clean technology and innovation, and sustainable resource development.”

It included eight directions to reduce emissions while maintaining energy security.

“It seeks to accomplish this through collaboration and partnerships, clean technology and innovation, and finance and policy frameworks,” said a government document about the plan.

It was derided …