Dear Friend,
There’s something very wrong with this picture.
On Monday, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the latest in a series of increasingly alarming reports on the worsening global climate crisis. Commenting on the report’s findings, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres did not mince words:
“Investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure is moral and economic madness… the truly dangerous radicals are the countries increasing production of fossil fuels.”
Just two days later, the Trudeau government issued a most telling response – two thumbs up to a Norwegian company to get started on the Bay du Nord project, a massive new fossil fuel drilling project 500 km off the coast of Newfoundland. The proposed 1,200-meter deepwater well will extract up to a billion barrels of oil over its 30-year lifespan.
What were we just saying about dangerous radicals?
This project is a carbon bomb!
Burning a billion barrels of oil will spew an additional 400 million tonnes of carbon pollution into the atmosphere. That’s the equivalent of running 100 coal-fired power plants or seven to 10 million gas-powered cars for a year.
Who’s going to speak out against this? Certainly not the NDP – they’ve signed on to support the Liberals through thick and thin. Too bad that means backing an “emissions reduction” plan that’s designed to fail.
No, the only climate champions left in Parliament are the Greens.
Here are a couple of recent interventions from Mike Morrice and Elizabeth May. Day after day, they stand up in that place and demand real action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
We need more of them – and to get that we need your help.
Friend, we’re running out of time to get Canada on the right track – to make our country a leader in the global effort to preserve a livable future.
Your support can help to get us there. Please give what you can.
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Dr. Imre Szeman |
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