My First Comment never appeared, so I posted a second one, which posted today, so maybe people can keep posting comments today. Here’s mine:
Just Say Non!
We are in the midst of a Climate Emergency. This is a terrible plan that should not go ahead.
We know we need to transition off fossil fuel use if our children are to have a livable future. If we are to have a livable future.
During the 2019 Federal Election, Prime Minister Trudeau made the commitment to establish legally-binding five-year targets, and reduce our GHG emissions enough to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.
That’s why there is no real business argument for investing in fossil fuel infrastructure. Many of those whose assets are tied up in fossil fuels are divesting. Those who aren’t will be left holding the bag later, because pipelines with a 50-70 year lifespan are going to end up being stranded decades early. Either because we’ve enjoyed good governance, whereby our government developed policy necessary to facilitate the necessary transition to sustainable energy sources. Or because our government has failed to manage a just transition, and our civilization has collapsed as a result.
The idea that keeping the GHG emissions low in Canada somehow makes this project environmentally friendly is nonsense, when the LNG they are manufacturing is intended to be burned elsewhere. It doesn’t matter where GHGs are emitted; they all go into the same environment.
The proposed 780-kilometre underground pipeline would pass near or through Indigenous territories as it carries the fossil fuel across forests, ecologically sensitive wetlands and protected provincial areas. Even if we weren’t facing climate catastrophe, this pipeline will be putting problematic “man camps” in Indigenous territories and the LNG produced in Saguenay will be shipped in Massive tankers (four times the size of the current marine traffic through the Saguenay Fjord) to the St Lawrence River.
These enormous ships will travel through the Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park (http://parcmarin.qc.ca/home/) which is supposed to protect the whales, dolphins, seals, salmon etc, adding additional pressure to threaten the viability of the already endangered Beluga whales.
Why not encourage sustainable energy production instead?
Please don’t do this. Say “NO.”