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Twin polls suggest slim majority of Albertans support oil and gas #emissions cap | https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/09/14/twin-polls-suggest-slim-majority-of-albertans-support-oil-and-gas-emissions-cap/ “Most #Albertans would support some kind of national cap on #CarbonEmissions from the oil and gas sector, two new polls suggest.
..conflict with the narrative that our current government is telling Albertans and Canadians that Albertans do not support this kind of action,” said @jvipondmd of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment” #CAPE
“Results from the twin polls didn’t surprise #UniversityofAlberta political scientist Jared Wesley, who has been leading a long-term surveying project on Alberta called #CommonGround. He said a decade’s worth of polling suggest that #Albertans are much more #EnvironmentallyConscious than they’re given credit for — and than they give each other credit for.”
“until people’s perceptions of public opinion catches up with public opinion, there’s not much incentive for politicians to change their rhetoric.
“When (politicians) make statements like, ‘Albertans do not support a just transition or an emissions cap,’ those statements are not based in truth. Albertans understand that we cannot go on doing what we’ve done.”