NO Excuse: Gutting Industrial Carbon Pricing & Clean Electricity Regulations Betrays Green Jobs

The Environment in Canada Podcast episode 110 on how the Federal Government also betrayed climate impacted communities by gutting the Industrial Carbon Price and Clean Electricity Regulations. You can listen to the episode on The Harbinger Media Network, IHeart Radio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or on our website below: 

The Federal Government just gutted climate policy cancelling vital green jobs in Canada and it was NOT 4D ‘chess’ and there is NO excuse. Also what does pesticide deregulation, so extreme even industry didn’t want it, have to do with national unity? Nothing.

We discuss this gutting of the Industrial Carbon Price and Clean Electricity Regulations – what it means about the ‘de-regulation / pro-corporate-profit-at-your-expense-agenda’ – and what you can do about it.

Get sources for today’s episode and read more in our recent newsletter here.

Learn more about the stories of wildfire and flood survivors who called for an emission cap.

Read the Centre for Future Work’s recent report on how anti-regulatory policy choices could cost Canadians billions.

Listen to our previous Sovereignty Saturday’s podcast sub-series for even more context and ways to take action.

And check out coverage of our response to these cuts in CBC News, VOCM, and Victoria News in the newsletter above.

More resources:

• How batteries let renewables get around needing baseload power.
• Over 120 scientists and academics say ‘no’ to Tantramar shale gas plant, Open letter to the Premier Holt, February 2026.

“Battery storage can now meet peak demand at a much lower cost than thermal power plants. In addition, renewable energy projects come online much faster—between six and eighteen months for solar—and carry less risk of cost overruns…. PROENERGY the company promoting the project, is headquartered in Missouri, and the gas burned in the proposed plant will come from the Marcellus and Utica shales in the United States.”

• Renewable energy has strong support and a majority of Canadians want to transition off of oil and gas now more than ever – polling sources and information on even more polling.
• Canada Can Go 100% Renewable.
• Canada Wind Power Facts.
• Canada Electric Vehicles Facts.
• A comprehensive list of climate denial myths and why they are myths.

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