B.C. Premier David Eby recently threatened to cut off a key energy-related B.C. export as a bargaining chip in negotiations over the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), and it wasn’t a fossil fuel.
With the volume of the conversation around Canada’s new pipeline, you’d be forgiven for thinking oil was Canada’s only major energy export opportunity. But the reality is that global energy systems have shifted dramatically in the last decade, and critical minerals—Eby’s aforementioned bargaining chip—are becoming the new oil, so to speak.
Keep reading this op-ed, co-authored by Evan Pivnick, in Corporate Knights.
