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Alberta's Coal Phase-Out

10 Nov 2019

Key Principles and Lessons from the Just Transition Literature Without deliberate and coordinated action, the workers and communities most dependent on fossil fuel extraction shoulder a disproportionate share of the challenges of the energy transition. [...] Key to local community adaptation is the ability to count on the provincial and federal governments to produce clear timelines and plans for the wind-down of facilities, so workers and communities can prepare for the changes. [...] While the choice by the Alberta and federal governments, via their regulatory and financial decisions, of a strategy to largely transition Alberta’s electricity sector from coal power to gas power is in the private interest of the electricity companies, it is not in the public interest of Albertans and Canadians. [...] Conclusion The Off-Coal Agreements between the Government of Alberta and TransAlta, ATCO, and Capital Power, as well as the federal regulations on coal plants, provide two backstops for the coal phase-out and mean it is unlikely to be rolled back by the UCP or a future provincial government (though most of the phase-out will be complete before the 2023 Alberta election). [...] A year later, at the November 2017 United Nations Conference of the Parties in Bonn, Germany, Canada and the United Kingdom launched the Powering Past Coal Alliance with 25 partners, including the Government of Alberta (Government of Canada 2017).
environment energy government politics economics sustainability economy coal electricity generation natural gas science and technology natural resources employment earnings social sciences alberta ghg emissions power generation canadian labour congress coal phase-out capital power notley energiewende transalta government of alberta coal-fired power station capital power corporation
ISBN
9781894949705
Pages
88
Published in
Edmonton, AB, CA

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