By CJME News Staff

Premier Wall speaks out on Liberals plan to phase out coal by 2030

Nov 21, 2016 | 10:51 AM

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall is reacting to the Liberals’ announcement to phase out the use of coal-fired electricity by 2030.

Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said the new goal is to make sure 90 per cent of Canada’s electricity comes from sustainable sources by that time – up from 80 per cent today.

Premier Brad Wall answered with the following:

“At the First Ministers’ meeting in Vancouver in March, the Prime Minister agreed to work together with the provinces to develop a pan-Canadian approach to climate change that would be discussed and finalized at the next First Ministers’ meeting in the fall, which has now been set for early December.

The federal government has now violated that commitment for a second time by making its second major policy announcement in advance of the First Ministers’ meeting in December – the announcement last month of a national carbon tax and now today’s announcement of an accelerated phase out of coal-fired electrical generation.

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These actions have severely undermined the December meeting and have exposed the Prime Minister’s disingenuous commitment to federal-provincial collaboration.

Saskatchewan will be evaluating both the environmental and the economic impact on our province of today’s federal government announcement.  

We will continue to strongly oppose any attempt to impose a federal carbon tax on Saskatchewan and will not support any agreement at the December meeting unless the proposed federal carbon tax is withdrawn.”

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