No coal? No problem.

摘要

Amid all of the gloom over low-oil and gas prices, under the pressure of new and potentially crippling climate change policies and without consistent access to export markets, western Canadian oil and gas producers are turning their attention to one flickering bright spot—and no, it's not a train barrelling down on them through a tunnel. Although the Alberta NDP government's Climate Leadership Plan is terrible news for coal-fired power producers, who now face extinction, and bad news for consumers, who will have to pay a new carbon tax and higher utility bills, it could be a win for natural gas producers. Developers of renewable energy could also fare pretty well. Ben Brunnen, manager of fiscal and economic policy for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP), says CAPP forecasts that by 2030, Alberta's electricity sector's demand for natural gas will have grown by 1.5 bcf/d.