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Help Canada’s workers now—but don’t lock us into a high-carbon future
By Richard Florizone Mar. 25, 2020
Times of high unemployment and low interest rates are the right time for new, low-carbon investments and infrastructure.
Instead of a bailout for the oil and gas sector, government and industry should pursue investments that will help us develop new energy solutions and markets—ideas such as large-scale wind and solar, geothermal, hydrogen, bioenergy, and storage—the kinds of things forward-thinking industry leaders were already considering before this crisis hit, writes Richard Florizone. Photograph courtesy of Pixabay
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