The hidden costs of Canada's fossil energy expansion - in person or on line

Canada continues to spend billions of dollars expanding our fossil energy infrastructure. For example, the cost of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion has ballooned from $4.5 to $26 billion since the project was bought by the Canadian government in 2018. This panel will examine some of the hidden costs of such projects including costs to Indigenous rights, health and social costs through increasing emissions and future costs associated with selling the project in a world transitioning away from fossil energy. 

WHAT: A multi-disciplinary panel of experts will discuss the hidden and overlooked economic, health and social costs of the Trans Mountain Expansion project. 

WHO:

• Kevin Cromar, program director at the Marron Institute of Urban Management and an Associate Professor of Environmental Medicine and Population Health at New York University Grossman School of Medicine. 
• Eugene Kung, staff lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law Association. 
• Erin Hansen, manager of the Sacred Trust Initiative and policy advisor at the Tsleil-Waututh Nation in their Treaty, Lands and Resources Department.
• Marc Lee, senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and co-director of the Climate Justice Project, a research partnership with UBC's School of Community and Regional Planning. 
• Chloe Hartley, policy analyst with the Sacred Trust Initiative.

DATE: Thursday, January 26, 2023

TIME: 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm

WHERE: Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, 580 W. Hastings St. Vancouver, and on-line. Register to receive a zoom link via email.

REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-hidden-costs-of-canadas-fossil-energy-expansion-tickets-490789323077