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SANTIN PENA, Oliver  y  FRIDELL, Gavin. Sources of Renewable Energy in Nova Scotia: Provincial Government Strategies in the Face of Canadian Federal Government Pressure to Reach Its 2050 Zero-Emissions Goal. Norteamérica [online]. 2023, vol.18, n.2, pp.95-133.  Epub 02-Dic-2024. ISSN 2448-7228.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cisan.24487228e.2023.2.636.

In 2021, the Canadian federal government under Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau committed to Canada’s beginning to gradually reduce its pollutant emissions until reaching zero in 2050. This means that the country’s ten provinces and three territories must autonomously adjust their strategies to achieve the goal in a common exercise established by the central government. In the particular case of the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia, the federal mandate is an enormous challenge because its infrastructure, developed since the seventeenth century, has operated to a great extent around the generation of fossil fuel. This article points out the cultural and corporate obstacles, the potentials for alternative energy, and the political strategies that provincial leaders have had to develop to find the most appropriate way to include Nova Scotia in the dynamic that all the other regions have already undertaken.

Palabras llave : renewable energy; Nova Scotia; Canada; polluting emissions; provincial government.

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