Renewables are a Solution for Canadian Independence, not Costly & Divisive Oil Pipelines nor LNG

Renewables can bring real power to communities and energy workers. We would only create more division by building more oil pipelines and LNG and oil pipelines and LNG would cost Canadian taxpayers.

Four podcasts below with experts on the benefits of a renewable energy shift for Canada including how that renewable energy shift has a crucial role to play in helping Canada maintain its independence from foreign powers including the U.S. and China (find two other podcasts specifically on that aspect here). We also discuss why some provincial policies – policies hostile to renewables – are holding us back and why we need strong climate policies to move our energy system forward.

We already have solutions for when the sun does not shine or the wind doesn’t blow as discussed below, such as interconnecting grids, diversified renewables, energy storage, and energy efficiency. But we cannot control global oil and gas prices and markets. This leaves us vulnerable to wild fluctuations in the price of oil and gas, to international crises, to corporate profiteering, and to the whims of hostile leaders who can use our dependency on oil and gas against us through measures like tariffs.

For every additional $1 of inflation YOU pay, 25 cents of that goes to oil and gas and mining extraction profits. New LNG facilities also increase costs for Canadian consumers. Meanwhile pipeline and LNG projects have failed because they were economically infeasible – would take years to build – and demand for oil & gas elsewhere is expected to decline. Singular pipelines also have to cross many jurisdictions and often violate the rights of communities and Indigenous peoples causing backlash. The current federal government poured billions of taxpayer dollars into building a pipeline and it’s still considered a dubious investment. 

We discuss the numerous benefits of a shift away from oil and gas and to renewables, like giving communities more power over their energy systems and localizing employment so energy workers don’t need to leave their families for weeks at a time. Renewables create far more jobs than oil and gas projects can while also bringing down energy costs for consumers. And we can build a renewable supply chain right here in Canada.

We chat about why data centres which could drive huge domestic energy demands and opportunities must be powered by renewables – not just for the sake of our climate but for the sake of localizing the benefits.

Podcast 1: Why Renewable Energy IS Reliable and Something We Can Deploy Now

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Podcast 2: How Renewables Can Create Jobs and Localize Benefits in Communities

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Podcast 3: On the Need for Strong Climate Policies and Why Oil & Gas Development and Dependency only Hold us Back

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Podcast 4: On AI and Data Centres and Why These Must be Developed in a Renewable Way

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Listen to two additional episodes with more on how a shift to renewable energy, and away from oil & gas, is a vital part of strengthening Canadian independence and sovereignty here.