: There can be no grand bargain because there looks to be no possible path to net-zero emissions from an oil sands mine by 2050. Both Teck Frontier’s production systems and the burning of 260,000 barrels a day would produce massive amounts of carbon. The climate doesn’t care about political horsetrading – it cares about emissions, and a promise to reduce them 30 years from now shouldn’t justify increasing them today.
Constant attacks on climate policy by oil and gas companies also help undermine potential emission reductions from cars, houses and industrial methane leaks, thereby reducing Canada’s ability to offset increases in emissions coming from the oil sands themselves.
The Teck Frontier mine would cover 292 square kilometres, producing 260,000 barrels of oil a day and four million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year – for decades to come. Last year, 11,000 scientists warned of untold suffering if we do not radically reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Yet the Trudeau government appears poised to lock Canada into this megaproject. That would be a great calamity.
The path to GHG reduction should be to reduce GHG emissions. Period. A “grand bargain” with the oil industry seems more like a grand illusion.
GlobeDebate It’s patiently and unexpectedly absorbed the cost to pass all the ridiculous liberal hurdles and steps meant to deter AB prosperity. So all a liberal has left is simply an unfounded NO, you’ve wasted your shareholders money here. Who will ever invest here after this? Disgraceful