Canada Will Kill Us All for $

Do you think that by 2050 trials will begin for “crimes against humanity” and the first people in the dock will be the oil company executives and the politicians that did their bidding?  By then it might be too late to save the planet, but maybe the televised trials will give the survivors some measure of justice. 

Approving Teck Resources’ Frontier mine would effectively signal Canada’s abandonment of its international climate goals. The mega mine would operate until 2067, adding a whopping 6 megatonnes of climate pollution every year. That’s on top of the increasing amount of carbon that Canada’s petroleum producers are already pumping out every year.

Alberta’s oil sands produce one of the dirtiest oils on the planet, and they are the fastest growing source of carbon emissions in Canada. The industry is expanding rapidly and is already responsible for more carbon pollution than all of Quebec. Oil and gas is now the largest climate polluter in the country, exceeding all greenhouse gases from transportation. Even without Teck Frontier, there are 131 megatonnes per year in approved tar sands projects just waiting for companies to begin construction. No wonder the industry is on track to take up 53% of Canada’s emissions budget within the next 10 years.