EJQ4 - Spring 2025 - Journal - Page 3
Elbows Up for the Energy Transition
Connie Vitello
is Editor of
Environment
Journal.
IT’S A CURIOUS TIME for Canadians as we face o昀昀 for a trade war started by our former best friends to the south, while we try to do the right thing for the environment by
meeting our emissions targets and decarbonization deadlines.
There’s nothing funny about it, but the onslaught of tari昀昀s prompted comedian Mike
Myers to call on Canadians to have their “elbows up,” a hockey reference, which started with the late great hockey player Gordie Howe, who made his opponents pay for unsportsmanlike conduct.
Prime Minister Mark Carney, also a hockey player, ran with the narrative in his victory speech for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada. He called out the U.S. president and his comments about Canada becoming the 51st state: “America is not Canada.
And Canada never, ever, will be part of America in any way, shape, or form. We didn’t
ask for this 昀椀ght, but Canadians are always ready
when someone else drops the gloves.”
Our natural resources are under siege. Rising
temperatures and increasing scarcity of water
and resources are fuelling the threats, with the
geopolitical storm accelerated by climate change
and the play for global domination of Arctic land,
coastline and trade routes that provide access to
massive reserves of oil, gas, water and minerals.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR MINING
AND METALS: THE ICMM ACTION PLAN
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