Editor:
According to the group Oil Change International, the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline would facilitate a major increase in tar sands extraction, releasing as much as 162 million additional tonnes of CO2 per year, or the equivalent of adding 34 million cars to Canada’s roads. In other words, the federal government may as well be pouring fuel on the West Coast wildfires.
Not long ago, we on the Coast were breathing in smoke from climate-driven wildfires on the West Coast. The climate emergency is at our doorstep. Why aren’t we responding with the urgency that it demands?
Instead of needlessly wasting money on a climate-wrecking pipeline, why doesn’t the Trudeau government invest in meaningful action to build back better from the pandemic and economic crisis?
It’s time for a Green New Deal that retools our economy to tackle the climate crisis while generating millions of jobs.
Bonnie Klein, Roberts Creek
