Big oil is fueling fires. We must stop funding projects like the Trans Mountain Pipeline.
that you wrote, “Canada is on fire, and big oil is the arsonist.” Could you elaborate? What are the points that you make there?Well, just two weeks ago, new scientific research from the Climate Hub of the Union of Concerned Scientists made a direct and measurable link between the increase in wildfires, not only in Canada, but also in the United States, and the carbon emissions from major fossil fuel producers.
We hear a lot about the smoke, but people aren’t really talking about the fact that 86% of the emissions trapped in our atmosphere today, they come from three products: oil, gas and coal. And the fossil fuel industry, it has been shown in courts across the world and in the United States, that these companies knew. They knew what their products were going to do decades ago. They denied it. They delayed it. They delayed progress of policy.
What’s really fascinating right now is that we’re seeing investors pull away from major fossil fuel projects, not just in Canada, but around the world, because they know that renewables are cheaper, and they can see that climate policy is going to have to constrain fossil fuel projects, if we’re going to keep the world safe. And so, investors pulled out of Trans Mountain.
And the government turned around and funded it, with public dollars, now close to over — well over $20 billion of taxpayers’ money has gone into this pipeline project, that crosses 3,000 streams.
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