No long-term future in tar sands, says Alberta's premier

Rachel Notley supports a switch to clean energy to help Canada's biggest oil-producing province move beyond fossil fuels within a century

The leader of Canada's biggest oil-producing province has declared she sees no long-term future in fossil fuels, predicting Alberta would wean itself off dirty energy within a century.

In an early reveal of her forthcoming new energy policy, Alberta's Rachel Notley said she would fight climate change by cleaning up the tar sands, shutting down coal-fired power plants, and converting to wind and solar power.