Tell Trudeau: No pipelines in a Climate Emergency

$Pipe for the Trans Mountain pipeline and tanker project stored in Northern BC. This is what climate denial looks like. How does a government-run regulatory body admit that a project would be terribly damaging to the environment, then go ahead and approve the pipeline anyway? The National Energy Board and Trudeau's cabinet ministers \ are ignoring their responsibilities. This isn't a new thing. This climate inquiry was the same kind that the NEB required for the Energy East pipeline. Why is a full climate assessment needed for some pipelines, but not others? Why is the National Energy Board supporting pipelines, not regulating them? Trudeau and his cabinet ministers are responsible for the National Energy Board. Tell Justin Trudeau and his cabinet ministers to denying Trans Mountain's full effect on climate change. Send a letter now.$

Trudeau wants to move forward with the Trans Mountain Pipeline, despite declaring a climate emergency. But Trudeau has just been re-elected on a mandate for strong climate action, and he needs to understand the groundswell of opposition that remains to this toxic tar sands project. Use this form to send a personalized letter to Prime Minister Trudeau and make your voice heard.

You can use the talking points we've included as a starting point, but please put things into your own words as much as possible – personal emails are so much more powerful than form letters.

Trans Mountain would grow climate emissions from the tar sands at a time when we desperately need to be cutting our climate pollution. The United Nations has told us we have just 11 years to cut our climate pollution by 50% if want even a chance to avoid a climate catastrophe.

Now is the time to act. Let Trudeau know that he must say no to this pipeline if he wants to be seen as a climate leader.

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Prime Minister

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Prime Minister of Canada

Dear Prime Minister Trudeau,

We are in a climate emergency. And when there is a climate emergency, we cannot build pipelines. Full stop.

We have just 11 years to cut our climate pollution by half to avoid a climate catastrophe (that’s according to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report released last fall). Canada’s climate is warming twice as fast as the global average (according to an Environment and Climate Change Canada report released last month) and emissions from oil sands are as much as 64% higher than oil companies have been telling us (according to an April 2019 paper published in Nature).

Here are five steps that the government needs to take to tackle the climate crisis:

1.  Set climate targets aligned with the ambition required by the science, including adopting a much stronger 2030 target before next year's UN climate conference and putting the goal of reaching net zero emissions by 2050 into law.
2.  Stop the approval of new fossil fuel projects. This means no new or expanded pipelines, no new LNG terminals, no new coal mines, and no new tar sands mines.
3.  Create an exit plan that breaks our economic reliance on the oil and gas sector, while supporting workers and communities impacted by the shift to a sustainable economy.
4.  Stop giving tax breaks and subsidies to fossil fuel companies. Every year the government currently gives $3.3 billion of taxpayer money go to the very corporations that are causing the climate crisis. That money would be better invested in renewable energy sources and other clean technologies that will power our grandchildren’s world.
5.  Fully implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People with attention paid to free, prior and informed consent.

Anything less would be climate denialism.

The expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline would increase shipments of oil by 590,000 barrels a day. That’s an additional 86 million tonnes of downstream greenhouse gas emissions every year. If this figure is new to you, it may be because in February, the National Energy Board refused to study the full life-cycle global warming effects of the pipeline. 86 megatonnes of greenhouse gas emissions is the equivalent of an additional 13 million cars on the road, or 75 million acres of forest loss.

Canadians re-elected your party because of your stated commitment to tackle the climate crisis. Now you must do the right thing and halt the Trans Mountain pipeline, along with all new and proposed fossil fuel projects. It’s the only way to re-establish your government’s legacy.

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