Toronto – In response to information that the federal authorities is contemplating bypassing federal environmental legal guidelines to fast-track tasks it considers to be within the nationwide curiosity, Greenpeace Canada’s Nature & Biodiversity campaigner Salomé Sané mentioned:
“Quick-tracking tasks that disregard Indigenous rights and environmental laws isn’t going to make us higher ready for the quickly altering international economic system and local weather. Constructing resilient communities for a low-carbon future means centering nature safety, and recognizing the sovereignty and stewardship of Indigenous Peoples: that’s what actually is sensible.”
Greenpeace Canada’s Senior Power Strategist Keith Stewart mentioned:
“Shifting rapidly shouldn’t imply transferring within the mistaken route. Photo voltaic farms needs to be simpler to approve and construct than oil sands mines as a result of they’ve a lot decrease environmental and local weather impacts, whereas positioning us to be leaders within the low-carbon economic system of the long run.
To really honour the federal government’s dedication to uphold world-leading environmental requirements and respect Indigenous rights, it needs to be specializing in tasks that handle local weather change and the affordability disaster, fairly than fast-tracking the enlargement of dangerous fossil fuels. We’d like inexperienced grids and reasonably priced houses, not new pipelines.”
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For extra data, contact:
Keith Stewart, Senior Power Strategist, Greenpeace Canada
[email protected], +1 416 659 0294
