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An oil worker at an oil sands facility southeast of Fort McMurray, Alta., on April 24, 2024. For many communities, the industry isn’t just jobs. It’s the economic engine funding hospitals, schools, arenas, roads and the existence of their towns. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Amber Bracken

How to include fossil fuel communities in Canada’s clean energy transition

Ekaterina Rhodes, University of Victoria; Megan Egler, University of Victoria; Rowan Hargreaves, University of Victoria, and Samuel Lloyd, University of Victoria

To be inclusive and impactful, energy transition policies need to be co-created with the communities and workers who run Canada’s energy industries.
Pumpjacks draw out oil and gas from wellheads near Calgary in April 2023. Canada is the world’s fourth-largest oil producer and has the world’s fourth-largest proven oil reserves. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

Fossil‑fuel propaganda is stalling climate action. Here’s what we can do about it

Samuel Lloyd, University of Victoria and Ekaterina Rhodes, University of Victoria

New research highlights the role of fossil-fuel industry propaganda and suggests strategies to tackle false narratives about fossil fuels.
Workers at the Cenovus Christina Lake oilsands facility near Fort McMurray, Alta., in April 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Amber Bracken

Oilsands workers are resistant to sustainable jobs, new research finds

Parker Muzzerall, University of British Columbia

Creating sustainable jobs that are regionally accessible, locally meaningful and economically desirable is the next big hurdle for Canadian policymakers aiming for a net-zero energy economy.

Related Topics

  1. Climate action
  2. Climate change
  3. Fort McMurray
  4. Fossil fuels
  5. Oil
  6. Oilsands
  7. Paris Agreement
  8. Western Canada

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