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RSS FeedsTrudeau´s climate action touted as the best plan Canada´s ever had - and a big disappointment
(The Star Travel)

 
 

18 september 2019 17:35:14

 
Trudeau´s climate action touted as the best plan Canada´s ever had - and a big disappointment
(The Star Travel)
 


OTTAWA—Environmentalists look at the Liberal government’s climate action these past four years and see two things at once: the best plan Canada has ever had — and one that is woefully inadequate for a looming catastrophe. On the one hand, there is now a minimum price on carbon emissions across the country, and a plan to phase out coal-fired electricity over the next 11 years — policies that seemed unthinkable at the federal level in the not-too-distant past. But there’s also the Trans Mountain oil pipeline, which Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau nationalized for $4.5 billion in 2018 and vows to expand for at least $9 billion more. That leaves open the prospect Canada’s largest and fastest-growing source of planet-warming pollution — the oil and gas sector — will continue to belch out more and more greenhouse gas. It’s this “cognitive dissonance” that irks Catherine Abreu, even if she credits the Liberals with piloting the federal government to confront global warming like never before.“The way I’m thinking about it is, we have built the foundation, and now we need to build the next 20 storeys,” said Abreu, executive director of Climate Action Network Canada, a group that represents a collective of the country’s environmental organizations.“They’re going to have to bite the bullet,” she said. Since their earliest days in government, Trudeau’s Liberals have aimed for a political sweet spot. They say they can be champions in the fight against climate change, while also remaining responsible stewards of the national economy, where tens of thousands work in an oil and gas industry that accounts for 27 per cent of Canada’s emissions. The stance has opened them to charges on both flanks. Environmentalists and opponents on the left say they’ve fallen short of what is required to face the existential threat of the climate crisis; Conservativ ...


 
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