WINNIPEG – Canada, the United States and Mexico have agreed to share information, maps and clean-energy innovations – a step toward a continental energy strategy that will include lower emissions and greater energy security.
Energy ministers in the three countries met for a day in Winnipeg and said they are making progress toward greater co-operation. U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz cited the new Liberal government in Canada, together with energy reforms in Mexico, to be a part of a “revived relationship.”
“The trilateral relationship is really not missing a beat. Contrary, I think it is accelerating even more with the quite strong Canadian commitment in the areas of energy, environment and innovation,” he said Friday.
Moniz, Canadian Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr and Mexican Secretary of Energy Pedro Joaquin Coldwell signed a memorandum of knowning that commits the three countries to talk about information on climate-change adaptation, clean-energy technologies, low-carbon electricity and much more.
The three ministers also announced that the earlier plan to map out the energy infrastructure across The united states and include it in one place – an internet platform – continues to be completed.
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Carr said the 3 countries have a common knowledge of what constitutes clean energy and share dedication to sustainability.
“The united states is truly on the same page on all of these issues. I believe that it’s a contented alignment,” he said.
As the ministers were signing the agreement, a man protesting the Energy East pipeline stood up and unfurled a small banner that read “Ensure that it stays In the earth.” He was permitted to say his piece before he was escorted out by security.
The pipeline would exercise than one million barrels of oil each day from Alberta through Central Canada to refineries in New Brunswick.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has stated a continental energy strategy is going to be up for discussion as he meets with The president next month.
Some environmental groups hope the end result is a firm climate-change agreement that would be as binding on individual countries as trade agreements are.
“It’s still beginning, but if this agreement evolves into a continental climate pact that has the standard enforcement teeth as trade agreements have now, it will be a leap within the right direction,” Keith Stewart of Greenpeace Canada wrote in an email.
