As world leaders prepare to meet for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties, or COP26, in November, a report by John Woodside in the National Observer comments that Quebec has rejected a $14B LNG project over environmental concerns.
It “was proposed on the premise of supplying fracked gas to the world as a climate solution, and Quebec's government showed a lot of leadership by saying that's completely untrue,” said Julia Levin, senior program manager for climate and energy at advocacy group Environmental Defence. “This will lock those countries into continued dependence on fossil fuels at a time when we have to be moving in the opposite direction.” After a groundswell of opposition to GNL Québec’s multibillion-dollar natural gas project, the provincial government has rejected the plan. Now advocates say it’s time for other governments to follow suit. #cdnpoli #LNG Levin called the rejection of the facility a “people-powered victory” against the notion fracked gas should be used as a bridge fuel. The idea “Canada can help global decarbonization by doubling down on fracked gas (is) a lie,” Levin said. “It's irresponsible for premiers in other parts of the country to continue to latch onto that lie.” Levin called it a form of climate denial by defining denialism as a failure to act at the scale required by the crisis, even when understanding the crisis is real. “So if you're continuing to approve LNG projects, like the premier of British Columbia, it's hard to not say you're a climate denier,” she said.1
A Post Media editorial comments on a recently published piece led by Joel Balyk that looked at what kind of mixes of EVs/mode switching/efficiency etc would be required to hit 2035 transport emissions targets in Canada. Sara Hastings- Simon thought the editorial was highly misleading.
I worked on a recently published piece led by Joel Balyk that looked at what kind of mixes of EVs/mode switching/efficiency etc would be required to hit 2035 transport emissions targets in Canada.
— Dr Sara Hastings-Simon (@S_HastingsSimon) July 21, 2021
Postmedia wrote a highly misleading editorial about it:https://t.co/QkIkNpOJCi pic.twitter.com/1e5F0wmmF8
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The study, “Driving Ambitions: The Implications of Decarbonizing the Transportation Sector by 2030” by four researchers notes, “this paper does not make any inference towards the new target as no material such as emissions modelling or reports have been published by the federal government as yet … “The federal government could facilitate understanding by the Canadian public and members of industry by publishing the more detailed projections (i.e., by sub-sector and province) that we assume underlie its sector-level projections.” But that’s not the purpose of Trudeau’s ever changing climate plans which from the beginning have treated Canadians like mushrooms — covering them with manure and keeping them in the dark — while making unrealistic promises which make no sense to anyone who can do math.3
Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent with the Guardian reports a new alliance urges governments to work together to deliver a just transition to a green economy
Ilhan Omar, a US congresswoman for Minnesota, said the recent extreme weather in the US and around the world should serve as a warning. “Climate change is here and it is an existential threat to humanity. We have already seen the horrifying repercussions of failing to act – wildfires raging across the west coast [of the US], extreme hurricanes, heatwaves in Australia, massive flooding around the world. Natural disasters like these will only get worse unless we act as a global community to counteract this devastation.” Paola Vega, Costa Rican congresswoman and president of the special permanent commission for the environment of the legislative assembly of the Republic of Costa Rica, said a green deal would require a transformation of the way governments treat ecological problems, and in the way people live. “Unless our countries, and the diverse alliances and range of powers that govern them, create enough pressure for collective action that changes the rules of the game, we will fall short of the urgent measures that we need to be able to address the massive challenges that we face today,” she said. “It’s important that we are clear that this means an absolute change of paradigm: a change in the way we live, the way we consume and produce.”4
These articles on the progress being made to treat the climate emergency as an existential threat to humanity indicate that the full engagement of Government and Private Enterprise is still lacking.
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