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There continues to be way to much of a focus on the local economic benefits of perpetuating the dinosauric fossil fuel extraction/refining/production/selling industry …
As for renewable energy, in the NWT, there is a much greater focus on local economic benefits identified in the Government of the NWT’s Biomass Energy Strategy (both the current & initial versions) than in the more recently drafted & finalized Solar Energy Strategy …
GNWT Biomass Energy Strategy
http://www.nwtclimatechange.ca/sites/default/files/Biomass_Energy_Strategy_2012-2015_1.pdf – see Actions 6 – 9
http://www.nwtclimatechange.ca/sites/default/files/128-NWTBiomassStrategy_web.pdf – see Actions #8 & 9
Solar Energy Strategy
http://www.nwtclimatechange.ca/sites/default/files/Solar_Energy_Strategy_2012-2017_0.pdf
Perhaps the next version of the Solar Energy Strategy will have a greater local economic benefits focus … I’ll/we’ll have to work on this through the Arctic Energy Alliance’s channels with the GNWT 🙂