Alberta uses Sovereignty Act for 1st time. What happens now?
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she’s using the province’s Sovereignty Act for the first time to challenge Ottawa’s requirements to have a net-zero electricity grid by 2035.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she’s using the province’s Sovereignty Act for the first time to challenge Ottawa’s requirements to have a net-zero electricity grid by 2035.
Smith said she wanted to invoke the act to send a message that her government is serious about pushing back against Ottawa’s plan to green Canada’s electricity grid by 2035, a plan she says could wreak havoc on Alberta’s natural gas-based grid.
“We’re creating an opportunity for the federal government to do the right thing and back down,” Smith told reporters.
“We’re sending the message: ‘Keep working with us on our 2050 target.'”
Smith made the comment prior to a motion being introduced in the provincial legislature under the Alberta Sovereignty Within a United Canada Act.
The motion calls for the Alberta government to take several actions, the most notable among them to empower provincial officials and regulators not to co-operate with the federal regulations, currently in draft form but soon expected to be enacted, so long as the province doesn’t break federal law.
The motion also calls on Alberta to look at creating a Crown electricity corporation in the province’s privately run power marketplace. The stated goal is not to compete but be a means of generating electricity if the future green grid risk baseload power.
Alberta also looks to launch a court challenge against federal clean electricity regulations, which are still a draft at this point and subject to change.
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