Danielle Smith says the “extreme green environmental movement” wants to use the federal government’s proposed “just transition” legislation to shut down the province’s oil and gas industry, which the Alberta premier has repeatedly said she wants to maintain and grow.
“Just Transition: I would just ask you to look at how the extreme green environmental movement uses that language. They use it as language to talk about completely phasing out the oil & natural gas industry,” Smith said in a video posted on Twitter on Jan. 19.