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BUT the Federal Government is seriously undermining green job growth by gutting both the industrial carbon price AND gutting the Clean Electricity Regulations. The industrial carbon price was supposed to be strengthened in exchange for other concessions under the pipeline MOU - instead it’s been weakened to the point of being completely ineffective: https://www.sierraclub.ca/alberta-pipeline-mou-carbon-price/ At a time when (U.S.-owned) oil and gas corporations are making huge profits - off of your wallet: https://www.sierraclub.ca/gas-price-caps-profiteering/ The new Electricity Strategy announced last is more about building new gas plants to power AI-slop-machines than it is about renewable wind, solar, and batteries: https://www.facebook.com/sierraclubcanada/posts/1408412021323221 There’s a big difference between capacity to store Canadians' data here in Canada versus using computing resources for AI-slop-machines - AI that takes away EVEN MORE Canadian jobs. Especially given the Federal Government’s approach to replace public services with AI systems, cut programs like pharmacare, and sell off public assets so as to de-risk oil and gas projects: https://www.sierraclub.ca/canada-strong-fund-sovereign-wealth/ Gas power plants will INCREASE energy costs for Canadians. Renewable energy does not need expensive gas power as a backup nor ‘baseload’ power. BATTERIES ARE CHEAPER AND MAKE GAS PLANTS OBSOLETE: https://www.sierraclub.ca/renewable-energy-does-not-need-baseload-power-more-facts-on-wind-solar-batteries-grids/ Find links to the POLLING SOURCES here and information on WHY OIL & GAS PROJECTS ARE ECONOMIC DEAD-ENDS: https://www.sierraclub.ca/lng-national-interest-canada/ From the Energy Mix: “Canada’s Clean50 founder and executive director Gavin Pitchford said federal climate rollbacks are already undercutting the development of Canada’s clean economy. “Companies are reading the tea leaves and ceasing investment in energy efficiency projects that no longer produce the ROI they need on the timeline they need. They’re cutting their sustainability departments and firing senior employees,” he wrote in an open letter to Carney, and to 10 Members of Parliament and one senior staffer who’ve been past Clean50 honourees. “$130 per tonne by 2040 [a MASSIVE DELAY TO INDUSTRIAL CARBON PRICING] will decimate an industry that all in, across the entirety of the clean economy, is over $200 billion in GDP.”” “All of these are remarkably good jobs for bright, young Canadians that are not easily replaced by AI. These are Canadian companies where the profits stay here.” Corporate Knights Director of Research Ralph Torrie agreed that Canada is “already falling behind” the accelerating global transition to renewable energy.” As the National Observer reported recently, the Federal Government has no comprehensive plan for wind, solar, and battery storage - no it is not in the electricity strategy - even though the rest of the world realizes wind and solar are much more efficient, cheaper, and quicker to deploy than all other forms of power. Indeed: “Canada, the Global Electricity Review found, is an outlier to the market trend. Renewable energy plant construction has dropped over the past two years, leaving wind and solar power accounting for just nine per cent of the country’s electricity mix, less than half the average among the G7.” That matters if we are now looking at a LOT more demand for power. The world is going renewable faster than ever in response to the current energy crisis, destroying demand for oil and gas in the process, and making oil and gas development in Canada economically pointless: https://www.sierraclub.ca/iran-oil-gas-profits-prices/ Indeed, Fatih Birol of the International Energy Agency – the leading global energy economist – has in fact warned about the dangers of expanding oil and gas projects given the rapid destruction of demand: https://www.sierraclub.ca/alberta-pipeline-mou-carbon-price/ WHICH IS ALL THE MORE REASON WE NEED A BUILD OUT OF TRULY RENEWABLE ENERGY LIKE WIND AND SOLAR. See also: - "Ottawa-Alberta Deal Delays Carbon Price to 2040, Endangers Clean Economy Jobs" - Carbon capture cannot achieve significant emissions reductions and is just another way to funnel taxpayer money to U.S. oil and gas corporation (it is not practical and will NOT LEAD TO NET-ZERO by 2025): https://environmentaldefence.ca/2025/09/23/carbon-capture-and-storage-the-billion-dollar-scam/ - "Details of the Canada-Alberta implementation plan allow for a minimum carbon price of just CAD 110 in 2040—far below the CAD 130 advertised, and far too late to meet climate commitments.... By lowering the headline price and committing to a price floor of just CAD 110 per tonne by 2040, the MOU implementation agreement significantly weakens industrial carbon pricing": https://www.iisd.org/articles/statement/mou-agreement-erodes-last-pillar-canadian-climate-policy - The industrial carbon pricing deal was NOT a strengthening of the Industrial Carbon Price relative to what was planned before, nor is it 'climate action': https://environmentaldefence.ca/2026/05/15/the-canada-alberta-implementation-agreement-jeopardizes-our-future/ - U.S.-Owned Oil Sands Giants Send Profits Out of Canada. - ‘Alberta released weaker methane regulation only 48 hours after closing a previous deal with Ottawa.’ - And in Policy Options: "The Carney government’s embrace of AI will put lives at risk. Deploying these technologies as cost-cutting measures will not only worsen service for Canadians, it will cause physical and mental-health issues."