The Alberta government is “fighting back” against the federal government’s proposed “just transition” legislation, says Premier Danielle Smith, adding that she is open to Ottawa simply helping oil and gas sector workers finding other jobs in related fields.
“We are not going to be shutting down our oil and natural gas industry,” Smith said on her Saturday morning radio show on Jan. 7, reported the Calgary Herald.
“We are not going to be transitioning our workers, who are in good, high-paying, meaningful, important jobs, into installing solar panels, which is the idiocy [federal Green Party Leader] Elizabeth May was first proposing when this kind of thing came out.”…