As Prime Minister Mark Carney announces he’s pausing yet another cornerstone environmental policy laid out by his predecessor Justin Trudeau, Industry Minister Melanie Joly won’t say whether the federal government will maintain its 2030 and 2035 emissions reduction targets.
  • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    10 days ago

    If we have a second Great Depression, the climate is going to get screwed

    That’s debatable. A reduction in consumption would probably reduce GHG emissions.

    As for EV charging standardization. The market has already done this.

    There’s a long way to go. There are many charging networks, each with their own apps and and idiosyncracies. Some manufacturers (I’m thinking of Volkswagen) have restrictions on how their vehicles can be charged, otherwise the warranty is voided.

    Until charging is as simple as plugging the vehicle in at a charger, and tapping how much the owner wants to spend, it’s too complicated.

    That said, no pipelines in Carney’s nation building projects. That seems like a pretty big miss if the goal was “support for the fossil fuel industry from top to bottom”.

    Doubling throughput of LNG through Kitimat is a pretty nice gift.