Hydro interprovincial ties will come, even as other renewables see price drops
WINNIPEG — Canada is transitioning away from fossil fuels and looking at more capacity for solar energy, wind power and interprovincial hydro transmission, Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr said Wednesday.
Carr is hosting a two-day conference on the future of Canada’s energy industry, called Generation Energy, where experts said fossil fuels will have to be phased out by the middle of the century if major countries are going to come close to meeting the emissions targets under the Paris climate change accord.
“I agree that we are in transition. There will be a discussion, among those who make predictions, about the speed of that transition,” Carr said after a morning panel discussion.
“The time frame that I heard this morning was 30 years, 40 years, mid-century, 50 years — which gives Canada and other countries around the world a sense of the way in which transition will unfold and at what pace.”