First thing first, any environmental strategy has to be part of a broader economic strategy. You can learn more about our broad economic strategy here.

Power Generation

Canada's power generation today is relatively clean (Around 75% non-fossil fuels) but as our power demand grows we are faced with tough choices on how to power our future generations without sacrificing their environment.

Canada is blessed with plenty of energy sources:

1. Oil & gas

2. Uranium

3. Hydropower

4. Plenty of space for wind & solar

This gives us a plenty of opportunities to make the best choices. The Future Party is proposing to:

1. Expand power generation using green sources, especially nuclear power.

2. Phase out polluting projects over their natural life span.

3. Encourage Carbon capture R&D and adoption.

4. Invest into building out a plastic industry in Alberta to offset the reduction in global oil demand

   
   

Why Nuclear?

Nuclear power has the ability to generate massive amounts of zero-carbon energy. When implemented and maintained appropriately it is one of the safest and most stable energy sources. Canada has 4 unique factors that make Nuclear an ideal solution to our growing energy needs:

• Large deposits of high grade Uranium in Saskatchewan. Actually, we have the largest deposits of high-grade Uranium in the world.

• Canada has plenty of land and a relatively very small population. This means can have Nucelar power generator safely away from population centers and. It also means we have plenty of space to safely dispose Nuclear waste.

• Canada, outside of BC, is geologically stable enough that we don't need to worry about insane events like the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami combination threatning our Nuclear powerplants.

• We have the technical know-how. CANDU reactors and the ongoing research on building CANDU Small Modular Reactors fits nicely with The Future Party's plan to encourage innovation.

  
  

Technology

There are a number of technologies of interest plus general R&D

R&D

We seek to incentivize and invest into more R&D generally through public-private ventures, we will expand on that more in a separate plank. The most relevant to our environmental strategy are:

• Nuclear energy

• Carbon Capture

• Renewables

• Hydrogen

• Solving Canadian issues:

  • Resilience to temperature swings

  • Resilience to weather events like snowstorms

  • Handling long distances

Rare Earth Elements

Batteries are getting all the attention but Canada's strength lies in the fact that it has a wealth of Rare Earth Elements it can mine that are crucial to batteries and modern tech. This earns it its own page, in summary:

• Speed up approval processes

• Joint public-private funding

• Build-up a national stockpile

• Improve surrounding infrastructure

• Make the resources accessible to Canadian manufacturers

  
  

Electric Vehicles

The biggest difficulty for Canada's EV adoption is the spotty charging infrastructure Canada wide, expanding the charging network will go a longer way to encourage EV adoption than just banning gasoline cars. It has its own its own page, in summary:

• Focus on inter-city & inter-town networks

• Have them be roadside attractions

• Include a community hub for nearby small towns

  
  

More on the way

There is more to our environmental strategy but it is currently under research. You can help speed that up by contacting us below!