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Net zero will take unprecedented government collaboration to “build enough fast enough”

Mark Lowey
March 27, 2024

All levels of government will need unprecedented collaboration to build the energy projects needed for net zero by 2050, says the co-chair of a study on whether Canada can “build enough fast enough.”

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Organizations:	Canadian Climate Institute, Government of Alberta, Government of British Columbia, Government of Canada, Government of Saskatchewan, McKinsey, National Energy Board, Natural Resources Canada, University of Ottawa, and uOttawa’s Institute for Science, Society and Policy
People:	Dr Monica Gattinger, Michael Cleland, and Pierre Poilievre
Topics:	areas of federal-provincial cooperation on energy, attracting capital for major energy projects, B.C. Clean Energy and Major Projects Office, building enough fast enough to achieve net zero, Canada's energy systems, Canada's Major Projects Management Office, capital expenditures needed to transform Canada's energy system, carbon contracts for difference, challenges in Canada's regulatory system, delegating more responsibility to provinces for energy projects, energy infrastructure needed for net zero, Energy Projects and Net Zero by 2050: Can we build enough fast enough?” (study), engaging with communities on major projects, federal Clean Electricity Regulations, federal Indigenous loan guarantee program, how policy and regulatory system shape project timelines, increasing investor confidence, increasing political involvement in project decision-making, industrial carbon pricing driving emissions reductions, integrating regulatory processes with government support, lack of shared federal-provincial vision on Canada's energy future, narrowing governments' scope of involvement in energy projects, national "carbon tax" vs. industrial carbon pricing, national price on carbon, need for governments to collaborate on net zero build-out, need for greater intra-governmental coordination on major energy projects, need for planning the energy future, net-zero emissions by 2050, policies and regulations for major energy projects, problems with federal impact assessment of major projects, proposed federal cap on oil and gas industry's emissions, provincial Indigenous loan guarantee programs, public sector project decision-making process, relationships with Indigenous communities in building energy projects, role of carbon pricing in encouraging investment in energy projects, role of policymakers in project decision-making, the role of independent energy regulators, and University of Ottawa's Positive Energy program

Net zero will take unprecedented government collaboration to “build enough fast enough”

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