Premier Danielle Smith took her federal fight to the 2023 Alberta Climate Summit on Thursday.
The conference is touted as a way to examine responsible energy transitions, but the focus of its first day was a fraught provincial-federal relationship.
Smith and the federal energy minister, Jonathan Wilkinson, both took part in separate "fireside chats" during the afternoon session. Much of the conversation revolved around how -- and how soon -- Alberta can achieve a net-zero electricity grid."You have to be in sync with what is practical. Politicians want to accelerate decision-making so that they can stand at podiums and have election wins, whether or not it's practical or realistic.
"You can either take the position that's never going to work and we're not going to engage, or you can say, 'OK, we want to engage the conversation," Wilkinson said.Smith disagreed, at one point even calling the target "impossible." In front of a crowd of clean energy and environment experts, that message didn't resonate -- the premier faced heckling."My job is to have a reliable energy grid."her government's decision to halt the construction of wind and solar energy projectsThe government is still running taxpayer-funded advertisements in other provinces -- notably Ontario -- suggesting 2035 goals could lead to sky-high prices and even power shortages.
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