“This is what happens when ideology runs the power grid,” said Alberta Premier Danielle Smith in July 2023 when asked about the province’s sky-high electricity rates.

Smith was attempting to cast blame on renewable energy policies of the former New Democratic Party government that had left office more than four years earlier.

Just one month later the premier abruptly signed a moratorium on all wind and solar projects followed by additional onerous restrictions that eventually drove almost 11 gigawatts of proposed renewable electricity projects out of the province. Alberta currently has the highest electricity rates in the country by a wide margin while also producing almost eight times the emissions per kilowatt hour compared to Ontario.

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