Alberta vs. Texas: how two oil giants are taking on clean energy
Update: 2024-11-13
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Alberta and Texas have a lot in common. Both have independent western cultures, great country music, and each lead their countries in oil production.
And over the past decade, they’ve both been the unlikely hosts to the multibillion-dollar renewable energy boom – with swaths of the Texas and Alberta energy grids going green. But while Texas becomes a leader, Alberta is changing course.
Jeffrey Jones, a Calgary-based reporter with The Globe’s Report on Business, took road trips through both vistas to learn how and why these oil-producing regions became hubs for clean energy, and what’s behind Texas’s green surge and Alberta’s slowdown.
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