All this can happen, but not if we’re still building dangerous, unnecessary, climate wrecking projects like the Teck Frontier mine.completely plausible and slightly wishful that Trudeau and his cabinet enablers would pay any price for their double speak.In the meantime, Kenney and friends and AimCo will have invested billions of dollars worth of provincial workers pension funds, without consent by contributors and against the wishes and better judgement of many, because more contemporary-thinking investors are pulling out of Alberta heavy oil mega projects. "None of the options are off the table," Wilkinson told CBC's CBC obtained a letter addressed to Wilkinson from the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN). We can do more than one thing at once, and approving Teck, to keep the political opponents from scoring points, while also ensuring that Teck will never make sense to Wall St. (the ones really in charge...) by pursuing better technologies, is completely possible.One must have very, very little faith in engineers and consumers alike to assume that if cleaner alternatives are both possible and presented to consumers, that they would still choose to keep travelling with oil.Further, the thing to oppose is not permission, always difficult in a free society, but subsidization - which should be easy in an economically-conscious society. The Teck Frontier mine would cover 24,000 hectares — an area twice the size of the City of Vancouver — and would produce 260,000 barrels of bitumen each day at its peak. "However, this seems increasingly unlikely within the prescribed timelines for a final decision on the project.
It completely wiped out the carbon savings that the government earned when it planted 2 billion trees during Trudeau’s second term in office. "The letter, dated Feb. 4, presents Alberta as an obstacle to the mine's approval. On a trip through Western Canada, Trudeau and his Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland faced protests at every stop as firefighters, Indigenous peoples and local communities joined massive climate strikes, outraged that the government continued to push fossil fuel expansion in the midst of a crisis.Freeland, once thought to be the next leader of the Liberal party, became so unpopular with young voters that she left politics before the next election. The mine tore up 29,000 hectares of pristine boreal forest and made it impossible for Canada — and the world — to avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis.When the mine opened in 2026, Teck started digging up 260,000 barrels of oil a day and dumping 6 million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere each year. The last three decades can only be described as climate chaos. Because we are not just going to take hot air anymore. Imagine it’s 2050. "Sinclair said the province continues to engage with ACFN and is open to increasing the number of water-monitoring stations, allowing for and funding Indigenous management of bison, and creating new protected areas.Adam has said in the past ACFN's requests are not unreasonable, adding his band has sacrificed its traditional land and treaty rights over the years as the oilsands has expanded.In Calgary today, Finance Minister Bill Morneau told reporters his government will review the letter but wouldn't say whether cabinet would take more time to decide the fate of Teck Frontier.A federal government source said the letter came "as a bit of a shock," given that Kenney has continually highlighted the support the project has received from 14 Indigenous communities in pushing the Liberals to approve it. Hopefully the federal government, both the current and successor governments, can steer this ship of fools away from the edge. #cdnpolipic.twitter.com/589lYmronLIn July, a federal-provincial environmental panel recommended the approval of the Teck Frontier mine. Instead of continuing to push fossil fuel expansion, they could go all in on a made-in-Canada Green New Deal. Before Teck was even operational, the writing was already on the wall. The $20.6-billion project from Vancouver-based Teck Resources would disturb 292 square kilometres of pristine wetlands and boreal forest — an area half the size of the city of Edmonton — over its 40-year lifespan, although the whole area won't be mined at once.The federal cabinet has until the end of February to make a decision.