On infrastructure, Kermit’s right: it’s not easy being green

The assumption that green infrastructure will be accepted by communities by virtue of being good for the climate may fast be put to the test.

A participant in the United We Roll truck convoy on Feb. 19 on Parliament Hill protests Bill C-69, to overhaul the environmental assessment process, and C-48, on an oil-tanker moratorium off the B.C. coast. The controversy surrounding C-69 suggests governments have a lot of work to do to get communities onside with green infrastructure projects, say Michael Cleland and Monica Gattinger. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MICHAEL CLELAND, MONICA GATTINGER

April 10, 2019

Those who grew up with Sesame Street know this song by Kermit the Frog lamenting being green. Kermit sang long before green referred to the environment and well before being green was cool. Now, the word “green” is everywhere, from green energy to green growth to green infrastructure. ...

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