When you’re in a climate hole, first you stop digging

A government that takes the climate crisis seriously, would manage down existing projects over coming years and pour all its energy, imagination and money into encouraging alternative enterprises that provide jobs without despoiling the only planet we have.

The groundwork is being laid for federal cabinet approval of a giant new oilsands mine in northern Alberta—perhaps with mandated emissions reductions limits, perhaps with a promise from Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, pictured on May 2, 2019, on the Hill, to legislate a 100-megatonne cap on provincial emissions, and, perhaps, with the private hope that the expensive and polluting project will never be built.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SUSAN RILEY

February 10, 2020

CHELSEA, QUE.—The groundwork is being laid for federal cabinet approval of a giant new oilsands mine in northern Alberta—perhaps with mandated emissions reductions limits, perhaps with a promise from Alberta Premier Jason Kenney to legislate a 100-megatonne cap on provincial emissions, and, perh...

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