KENNY VS GONDEK: COMPETING VISIONS OF ALBERTA'S ENERGY FUTURE.

Chandrayee Roy Choudhury, Canada: In her recent editorial board meeting , Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek conceded that energy transition "sometimes comes with a lot of pain and angst."



It also comes with a lot of politics in oil-rich Alberta. 



Gondek offers one vision for Alberta's energy future. Jason Kenney and the United Conservative Party (UCP) offer a competing view. 



Gondek's sights are set on decarbonizing Calgary's economy, touting the city's new clean energy tech accelerator aimed at helping bring big oil and gas companies together with researchers, entrepreneurs and academics working to decarbonize the industry. 



Gondek ruffled some feathers before she even became mayor for saying that Calgary needed to "move past" a focus on fossil fuels as the only form of energy production.



Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, on the other hand, is intent on getting Alberta's economy cooking with oil and gas again. Kenney's rather retro vision champions fossil fuels and their potential economic prosperity.



As an oil and gas booster, Kenney has vowed  to "vigorously defend the economic interests of Alberta, including the right to develop our own natural resources," in response to the federal government's formal announcement last November to cap oil and gas emissions... ideologically people are supporting the visions of Jason Kenny, as ALBERTA is a Oil and Gas based economically rich Province, This Kenny's vision would boost the economic prosperity of the Province.... which would indirectly benefit the economic conditions of the Country also.