Trudeau is not alone in refusing to acknowledge the need to stop expansion of oil and gas. “Whatever it takes” – except tackling the industries stoking the flames. But Ottawa just backed another loan guarantee for the Trans Mountain Pipeline. If we are going to manage the decline of fossil-fuel production in an equitable and fair way we need our governments to stand up to big oil and start negotiating a new international agreement on fossil fuels to complement the Paris agreement.īack at home, as the smoke rolled in, the prime minister, Justin Trudeau, promised to do whatever it takes to keep people safe. And today we are on track to produce 110% more oil, gas and coal by 2030 than the world can ever burn, or it will burn us. The result? The Paris agreement doesn’t even include the words fossil fuels, oil, gas or coal. Internationally, big oil has been flooding the climate talks for decades. We can now measure which oil companies are responsible for wildfires (13 operate in Canada), but oil executives are still calling the shots. We know exactly which fossil fuel companies are robbing us of clean air and a secure future. The IPCC said as much last year – the barrier is vested fossil fuel interests putting their profit above our safety.
Nor is a lack of cleaner, safer, cheaper energy alternatives. A lack of scientific knowledge about climate change is not the barrier.
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