RePower Alberta is calling on the Alberta Government to implement a Green Energy Strategy. After decades of riding the roller-coaster of the fossil fuel sectors' boom and bust cycles, the time has come for Alberta to forge a new energy path.
Diversifying our energy economy will provide tens of thousands of new clean and green jobs for Albertans, and has the opportunity to create just solutions to our province's contribution to the climate crisis. The government of Alberta, however, continues to drag its heels on introducing policies, strategies or legislation that would set Alberta on a proactive course of stregthening the province's position with one of the fastest growing sectors in the world.
Alberta is the only province in Canada without a Green Energy Strategy, and the only province that doesn't offer subsidies to wind power. Meanwhile, subsidies to fossil fuels continue. Conventional energy sources are running out; they are finite and harmful to health and the environment. 74% of our electricity comes from coal, and while energy demand is increasing, our current system of energy generation is inefficient - only 37% of electricity of Alberta is actually utilized (source: Pembina Institute)
It's time to phase out dirty old fossil fuels and usher in a green energy future! We believe Albertans are ready to implement local concrete solutions, and the good news is - the solutions are there waiting. In 2009, an Ipsos Ried poll showed that 78% of Albertans prefer that the Alberta Government provide subsidies for Renewable Energy over the Oil and Gas Sector. Additionally 94% of Albertans polled believe the Alberta government should have a strategy to use revenue from the tar sands to help the province transistion to a greener economy.
Sierra Club Prairie and Greenpeace Canada are proposing Alberta adopt a clean, green and just energy strategy that sees 50% of the our electricity supply coming from renewable sources and our overall energy consumption reduced by 30% by 2025.
In addition to making our communities healthier and our economy more diversified such a strategy will mean the creation of ten of thousands of good green jobs right here in Alberta.
The RePower Alberta campaign is working hard to:
1. See the Province of Alberta pass a Green Energy Strategy;
2. Ensure the Green Energy Strategy is achieved using truly green energy, through investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy;
3. Work with communities throughout the province to implement green energy solutions and green jobs.
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