Smith calls Guilbeault’s emissions cap ‘deranged vendetta’ against Alberta
A recent report said the cap on the oil and gas sector would cost Canada 112,900 jobs by 2040
OTTAWA — Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said on Monday that the oil and gas sector must do more to help Canada get to net zero, while unveiling long-awaited draft regulations capping the sector’s carbon emissions to 35 per cent below 2019 levels by 2030.
“We should all be driving toward the same goal,” said Guilbeault at press briefing near Parliament Hill. “And every sector must do its part.”
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“Oil and gas is no exception,” continued Guilbeault, who was flanked by Minister of Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson and Edmonton-based Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith released a statement trashing the proposed cap before Guilbeault was even done speaking.
“I’m pissed. I’m absolutely angry because we’ve been working with these guys for two years because we have a plan that would reduce emissions responsibly by 2050,” Smith said at a later press conference in Edmonton. “This is not a responsible policy. He has a deranged vendetta against Alberta. It’s very obvious.”
Shannon Stubbs, the Conservative natural resource critic and MP for Alberta’s Lakeland riding, was similarly incensed.
“How is a first-in-the-world emissions cap on Canadian oil and gas … a higher priority to this current government over more cross-country and export pipelines and LNG development,” asked Stubbs in a social media post.
Provinces west of Ontario produce some 95 per cent of Canada’s domestic oil and gas, according to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. Alberta alone produces over 80 per cent of Canada’s crude oil and about two-thirds of its natural gas.
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Screw this twit and the LPC band of misfits on his cocktail circuit. A PMPP had better make good on his promise to axe the tax. Day one! Gone! Stop pissing away 100’s of millions on foreign ‘projects’ that benefit Canada not one single bit. Re-direct those tax dollars to clean up real pollution right here at home. Our waste disposal (treatment plants), our lakes, rivers and streams. Our seriously outdated crumbling leaking infrastructure that moves all of this hazardous waste to where it needs to go to be safely treated. How about this novelty? Instead of funding progressive feel good policies like %#*@ gender studies in Africa how about safe fresh drinking water or our First Nations (all of them!). I’d be remiss not to mention our national infrastructure including crumbling transportation system that is held together with hopes and prayers instead of responsible adequate ‘Canada first’ funding, coast to coast.
As for the military (and so many other Canada first issues)….. there’s not enough time in the day. Canadians must deliver the a Trump level trouncing to the LPC (and all of the other socialist, woke, progressive asshats) at the ballot box at the earliest opportunity.
Trillions being wasted to make progressives ‘feel good’ about themselves. No amount of money will convince Mother Nature to change doing what she has always done, and always continue to do. Trump is going to return sanity to this fiasco. Canadians want PMPP to do exactly the same.
It’s called CLIMATE CHANGE.
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