Don Braid: In public shift, Jason Kenney says Alberta has to go green over time

Suddenly, Premier Jason Kenney is talking publicly about the “energy transition.”

This is new. And it’s significant.

“Over the next decades as we go through the energy transition, we all know that there will be a continued demand for crude,” he told a panel at Washington’s Wilson Center last Friday.

Kenney added: “It is preferable that the last barrel in that transition period comes from a stable, reliable liberal democracy with among the highest environmental, human-rights and labour standards on earth.”

Energy transition. Last barrel. Transition period. Six not-so-little words we’ve never heard clearly from Kenney before.