Alberta Premier Calls Federal Net Zero Plan ‘Nonsensical’

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith gives a keynote address at the the LNG2023 conference in Vancouver, on July 13, 2023. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

Alberta’s premier has called Ottawa’s plan for a net zero grid by 2035 “illogical and nonsensical.”

“The Clean Electricity Regulations are an exceptionally bad, poorly thought out, and illogical plan,” Premier Danielle Smith told a news conference on Aug. 14. She was responding to proposed regulations announced by the federal government on Aug. 11.