Okay. It's not just that we get to net zero, but there was and is a huge potential economically for us for even export of power. There was no place on the planet more ready than Alberta. If you talk to anybody in clean energy, they say that what you could produce out of southern Alberta would dwarf anything Germany could ever do.
In 2022, Alberta was responsible for a 75 % increase in domestic wind and solar power. They had 17% of the province's electricity coming from renewables. Then Danielle Smith brought in the moratorium. She claimed that the independent electricity grid operator—the Alberta Electric System Operator—had asked her to bring in this pause, because they were concerned.
Now we see from documents that this wasn't true. They were shocked that she made this decision. She lied publicly. They felt that it would “send a 'closed-for-business message.'” I'm concerned about this, because that stalled 118 projects—$33 billion in investments—that could have been used not just to power the grid in Alberta but also to set up Alberta as an export economy. That's not happening now because of this closed-for-business message.
How do you negotiate a clean energy plan with a premier who makes facts up about chasing business away from what should be the energy superpower of the country? I hope I'm not being political.