From fast-tracking approvals to slashing a proposed emissions cap, the Carney government is working its way through requests from Canada’s fossil fuel industry
This is the correct answer with the caveat that the solution is an economic solution: alternative energy has to be so economically superior that it overrides the legacy lobbies. Which is getting close to being the case everywhere except extremely corrupt systems like the US.
Do you even know how much governments subsidize the oil industry with taxpayer money? If we stopped tomorrow, we’d have the money to fund these green alternatives. But instead we have billionaire welfare leeches telling our governments what to do.
This is the correct answer with the caveat that the solution is an economic solution: alternative energy has to be so economically superior that it overrides the legacy lobbies. Which is getting close to being the case everywhere except extremely corrupt systems like the US.
Do you even know how much governments subsidize the oil industry with taxpayer money? If we stopped tomorrow, we’d have the money to fund these green alternatives. But instead we have billionaire welfare leeches telling our governments what to do.