Shannon Phillips: Climate Change and Energy

shannon phillips: Her comments come in the wake of a National Energy Board analysis that concluded Canadians' fossil fuel consumption will peak in 2019 and then decline, according to National Observer. This is a province that is up to the challenge, I can't think of any province that is more up to the challenge ... as long as there are policies in place that ensure that we understand climate change is real, action on climate change is real in the rest of the world, and it is our job to work together with our partners in industry and in civil society and in Indigenous communities and elsewhere to ensure we are resilient to the changes that are to come. The world will need energy for generations to come and Alberta is the producer of that energy... Shannon Phillips said Friday. Alberta's oilsands region in the northern part of the province are considered to be part of the world's third largest reserves of crude oil after Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. This makes production more costly than more conventional forms of oil and also means that extraction leaves a larger environmental footprint. But the region's tar-like heavy oil, found beneath the boreal forest in the northern part of the province, requires huge amounts of energy and water to produce. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.