Alberta’s Danielle Smith reiterates promise to oppose Trudeau gov’t ‘clean electricity regulations’
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‘We will never allow these regulations to be implemented here. Full stop,’ Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said of the Trudeau government’s proposed ‘Clean Electricity Regulations.’
(LifeSiteNews) –– Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has once again vowed her province will not comply with nor enact Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s new Clean Electricity Regulations, promising to disobey any such rules should they come into force.
“If they become the law of the land, they would crush Albertans’ finances, and they would also cause dramatic increases in electricity bills for families and businesses across Canada,” said Smith at a press conference Monday.
Smith said that “Alberta will not go along with it [the Clean Electricity Regulations],” adding, “We will never allow these regulations to be implemented here, full stop.”
“If it comes down to it, we are going to do our own thing. We have to,” she emphasized.
Smith made clear that she is open to negotiation with the federal government but reaffirmed that it also needs to come to the table with realistic goals regarding so-called “net-zero” power generation.
“So let me be clear, any plan that makes electricity more expensive and less reliable is a bad plan and the Clean Electricity Regulations are an exceptionally bad, poorly thought out and illogical plan,” she said.
The draft version of the federal government’s Clean Electricity Regulations states that there will be billions of higher costs associated with so-called “green” power transition, especially in the resource-rich provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, which use natural gas and coal to fuel power plants.