In the second of five “Home Office” conversations with party leaders, Huddle editor Mark Leger speaks with People’s Alliance Leader Kris Austin. The party is best known for its criticisms of official bilingualism, but Kris also argues for lower business taxes and responsible development of natural gas resources and pipelines as a transition to more green forms of energy.
“Renewable development is the next stage of energy,” says Kris. “That’s clear. I’m not going to be naive and say that oil is something we should rely on for generations to come. Oil is eventually is going to be phased out. Technology is going to get better, and there’s no reason we shouldn’t be using solar, wind and tidal….but there’s got to be a transition there and you can’t just have a hard cutoff, you have to be able to transition out of fossil fuels and into renewable energy as technology advances.”
David Coon of the Green Party and Kris Austin may not see eye-to-eye on energy issues but they both believe a minority government works best for the people of the province. However, the People’s Alliance leader says he is a more natural partner for the PCs if Higgs’ party is re-elected.
This story originally appeared in Huddle, an Acadia Broadcasting content partner.
