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An oil worker at an oil sands facility southeast of Fort McMurray, Alta., on April 24, 2024. For many communities, the industry isn’t just jobs. It’s the economic engine funding hospitals, schools, arenas, roads and the existence of their towns. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Amber Bracken

How to include fossil fuel communities in Canada’s clean energy transition

To be inclusive and impactful, energy transition policies need to be co-created with the communities and workers who run Canada’s energy industries.
Members of Unifor Local 594 gather for a rally outside the Co-op Refinery in Regina, Sask. in December 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Michael Bell

It is industry, not government, that is getting in the way of a ‘just transition’ for oil and gas workers

While governments are often blamed for a perceived ‘unjust transition,’ it is actually the industry itself which poses the biggest threat to the future of oil and gas workers.
Highway 4 crosses Lake Diefenbaker at Saskatchewan Landing Provincial Park. Lake Diefenbaker is a part of the South Saskatchewan river basin which faces unprecedented levels of reduced water flows in 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Michael Bell

Water woes in southern Alberta could spell disaster for aquatic ecosystems, and the people who rely on them

Declining precipitation, climate change and governance failures will drive water flow scarcity in 2024 with serious implications across Western Canada.

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