{"id":50088,"date":"2019-12-12T09:58:44","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T14:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50088"},"modified":"2019-12-12T09:59:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T14:59:09","slug":"trudeau-will-fuel-the-fires-of-our-climate-crisis-if-he-approves-canadas-mega-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50088","title":{"rendered":"Trudeau will fuel the fires of our climate crisis if he approves Canada’s mega mine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Trudeau will fuel the fires of our climate crisis if he approves Canada’s mega mine<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Alberta\u2019s oil sands produce one of the dirtiest oils on the planet. If the Teck mega mine is approved, the damage to our planet will be colossal<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u2018Less than two months ago, two-thirds of Canadians voted for parties vowing to do more to fight climate change.\u2019 Photograph: David Levene\/The Guardian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This week, the Canadian government is in Madrid telling the world that climate action is its No 1 priority. When they get home, Justin Trudeau\u2019s newly re-elected government will decide whether to throw more fuel on the fires of climate change by giving the go-ahead to construction of the largest open-pit oil sands mine in Canadian history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Approving Teck<\/a> Resources\u2019 Frontier<\/a> mine would effectively signal Canada\u2019s abandonment of its international climate goals. The mega mine would operate until 2067, adding a whopping 6 megatonnes<\/a> of climate pollution every year. That\u2019s on top of the increasing amount of carbon that Canada\u2019s petroleum producers are already pumping out every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Teck mega mine would be on Dene and Cree territory, close to Indigenous communities. The area is home to one of the last free-roaming herds of wood bison, it\u2019s along the migration route for the only wild population of endangered whooping cranes, and is just 30km from the boundary of Wood Buffalo national park \u2013 a Unesco world heritage site because of its cultural importance and biodiversity.Advertisement<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alberta\u2019s oil sands produce one of the dirtiest oils on the planet, and they are the fastest-growing source of carbon emissions in Canada. The industry is expanding rapidly and is already responsible for more carbon pollution than all of\u00a0Quebec<\/a>. Oil and gas is now the largest climate polluter in the country, exceeding all greenhouse gases from transportation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trudeau will fuel the fires of our climate crisis if he approves Canada’s mega mine Alberta\u2019s oil sands produce one of the dirtiest oils on the planet. If the Teck mega mine is approved, the damage to our planet will be colossal This week, the Canadian government is in Madrid telling the world that climate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1082,113,1053,1729,595,3540,28662,28661,28660],"class_list":["post-50088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-alberta","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-climate-crisis","tag-oil-and-gas-industry","tag-oil-production","tag-oilsands","tag-teck-mega-mine","tag-teck-resources","tag-tzeporah-berman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50090,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50088\/revisions\/50090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}