Even though Saskatchewan appears afflicted by climate change, the main political parties may avoid the topic during the election campaign.
Saskatchewan is often portrayed aptly as a climate laggard, so it might surprise some how much progress is being made on renewable energy.
So climate change appears to be severely afflicting this province called Saskatchewan that just entered an election campaign. Yet few should be surprised if neither the governing party nor the NDP want to talk much about it.
And NDP Leader Carla Beck wants to put as much distance as she can between her party and the federal NDP, which recently dissolved a partnership to keep Trudeau’s unpopular government in power.
That skepticism is generally considered to be centred in the smaller cities and rural areas of the province, where Moe claims his base and where Beck badly needs a breakthrough.
Hromek serves as chairman and CEO of Adonai Resources Corporation, a Regina-based oil and gas company that contributed $200,000 to United last year.
Science has established that large amounts of carbon released into the atmosphere has created a greenhouse effect and is warming the planet, but Hromek likely sees opportunity.
Carbon dioxide is indeed necessary to sustain life on earth. Climate science does not deny that. Water is also necessary for life, but as a colleague pointed out, swallowing too much at once can be fatal.
Yet that resolution, which also asked the provincial government to remove itself from agreements that reference “net zero,” has likely resonated with all political parties.
Saskatchewan is deemed to have great potential for wind and solar power, but the need to address baseless claims suggests it’s also serving as fertile territory for the spread of nonsense.
Phil Tank is the digital opinion editor at the Saskatoon StarPhoenix.
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