{"id":50656,"date":"2020-01-22T08:17:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T13:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50656"},"modified":"2020-01-22T08:17:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T13:17:48","slug":"trudeau-and-his-north-van-climate-minister-are-wrestling-with-a-massive-oilsands-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50656","title":{"rendered":"Trudeau and His North Van Climate Minister Are \u2018Wrestling\u2019 with a Massive Oilsands Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/News\/2020\/01\/21\/Trudeau-Government-To-Choose-Climate-Side\/\">Trudeau and His North Van Climate Minister Are \u2018Wrestling\u2019 with a Massive Oilsands Decision<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Teck\u2019s Frontier mine would kill emissions targets, say analysts.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/News\/2020\/01\/20\/Jonathan-Wilkinson.jpg\" alt=\"Jonathan-Wilkinson\"\/><figcaption>Where will Minister for Environment and Climate Change Jonathan Wilkinson, MP for North Vancouver, land on Frontier, possibly the biggest oilsands project ever?&nbsp;Photo by Mike Sudoma, the Canadian Press.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Trudeau government is under intense scrutiny for a looming decision \u2014 one that will powerfully signal whether it favours oil patch growth over fighting the climate emergency.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will the Liberals approve a new bitumen mine&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thenarwhal.ca\/why-the-proposed-frontier-oilsands-mine-is-a-political-hot-potato\/\">twice the size<\/a>&nbsp;of Vancouver that alone is expected to add 20 per cent of additional oilsands emissions over the next three decades?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or will Justin Trudeau\u2019s government make good on its promise to set Canada on the path to having \u201cnet-zero\u201d emissions by 2050 by rejecting the Frontier mine being proposed by Vancouver-based Teck Resources?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, who represents the riding of North Vancouver, is reportedly \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/6310696\/wilkinson-frontier-oilsands-mine-alberta-teck-climate\/\">wrestling<\/a>\u201d with the decision, which is expected sometime next month. The Prime Minister\u2019s Office didn\u2019t respond to The Tyee\u2019s interview request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilkinson has said that achieving Canada\u2019s aggressive net-zero target, which would\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/6076966\/canada-legally-binding-climate-targets\/\">result<\/a>\u00a0in the country effectively ceasing to contribute to global temperature rise within three decades, is not open to negotiation: \u201cThat is a target that is not informed by politics. It\u2019s informed by science.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If that\u2019s the case, then the Liberals need to forcefully reject what is one of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thenarwhal.ca\/why-the-proposed-frontier-oilsands-mine-is-a-political-hot-potato\/\">biggest<\/a>&nbsp;oilsands mining projects ever proposed, says Eriel Deranger, executive director of the Edmonton-based group Indigenous Climate Action. \u201cWe cannot afford more destabilization of critical ecosystems and the creation of massive amounts of carbon emissions,\u201d she told The Tyee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trudeau and His North Van Climate Minister Are \u2018Wrestling\u2019 with a Massive Oilsands Decision Teck\u2019s Frontier mine would kill emissions targets, say analysts. The Trudeau government is under intense scrutiny for a looming decision \u2014 one that will powerfully signal whether it favours oil patch growth over fighting the climate emergency.&nbsp; Will the Liberals approve [&hellip;]<\/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":[94,103,13249,12878,28851,4169,782,28661,23884],"class_list":["post-50656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-climate-emergency","tag-geoff-dembicki","tag-jonathan-wilkinson","tag-justin-trudeau","tag-tarsands","tag-teck-resources","tag-thetyee-ca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50656","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=50656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50657,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50656\/revisions\/50657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}