‘No generation has faced an existential crisis of this scale,’ says Canadian researcher.
Canada’s young people are filled with a sense of doom and gloom, not just about the planet’s climate change future, but also about their government’s lack of action in dealing with it.
Ministry spokesperson says government finalizing report, needs 'thorough analysis'
The B.C. government has missed the deadline for its review into the possibility of providing air conditioners during heat waves as recommended by a coroners' death review panel last year.
B.C. Environment Minister George Heyman will soon decide the fate of Enbridge’s Westcoast Connector Gas Transmission Project — and possibly his government. First approved in 2014, the 48-inch pipeline would carry fracked gas across a complex patchwork of sovereign territories to a new LNG terminal on the coast.
‘That would be a death knell for our climate targets,’ says climate advocate.
Oil sands producers plan to spend billions of dollars on emissions-reducing technologies so that they can boost production and sell more of their climate-warming products overseas, an industry lobby group explained to Canada’s federal government on multiple occasions.
![‘The irony is that [the LNG Canada plant will] be BC’s largest source of pollution but will be paying less in carbon tax than regular British Columbians filling up at a gas station,’ says Sven Biggs, Canadian oil and gas programs director. Photo via Shutterstock.](https://ecosocialistsvancouver.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/article-image/lngfreighter.jpg?itok=_fyMDZ53)
