Fire Weather author sounds alarm on Alberta's fossil fuel addiction

At this year's Parkland Institute conference, John Vaillant linked Alberta’s fossil fuel dependence to the devastating Fort McMurray wildfires while embracing the global shift towards clean energy.

Fire Weather author John Vaillant delivered the keynote address at the Parkland Institute’s annual conference on Nov. 15.

The 2016 wildfire that devastated Fort McMurray should have been a wake-up call for Alberta to begin the process of kicking its fossil fuel addiction, says the author of the widely acclaimed bestseller Fire Weather: The Making of a Be…