Chris Sankey - Trudeau's Just Transition Will Kill 450,000 Oil & Gas Jobs. That's OK With Him But Not For Indigenous Communities
Comment by Chris Sankey
The Government's just transition agenda is going to kill 450,000 oil and gas jobs, but apparently all those workers want to enter the computer science sector. If your ambition is to decarbonize your part of the world great, I am happy for you..fly at it. However, trying to force an agenda down the throats of many indigenous communities is wrong. This agenda is going to destroy hundreds of communities who want responsible resource development.
The focus needs to be clean energy, which is Innovation and technology. I need to remind the public without the oil and gas sector there is no economy. We need energy to make our country function. Innovation and technology is better and we are reducing emissions and our carbon footprint. Without oil and gas we cannot produce the billions of tons of raw materials needed to build windfarms, solar and produce cobalt for EV's. Furthermore; we need to feed our machines with oil and gas to do the job. The oil and gas sector is what brings cleaner fuels to market. It is the the every day women and men in the energy and manufacturing sector who are making that a reality. The 2.0 agenda needs to be open to the oil and gas sector. Without LNG there is no Hydrogen, Biodegradable Synthetic and Renewable Fuels. Fossil fuels are keeping us all alive. Cutting off nuclear was a mistake.
If we don't start realizing the damage this green new deal is doing to families and communities then this will cost the economy billions to recover, decades to over come and higher taxes to all of us. Our people can barely put food one the table and pay for a bus pass as it is.
If you are willing to spend millions of dollars, not including the billions for the country to decarbonize your communities by all means go-ahead, but know that many of our Indigenous communities are but a blip in the pond of carbon. Some of our communities can use the reduction of emissions per-capita. I am in favor of bringing clean energy to those communities, but business wise I can think of better ways to spend that money that will benefit our country, people and take care of the environment. PLANET< PEOPLE< PROFIT
So, when pro responsible resource development communities want to move forward on energy projects, please respect those leaders and communities who want to see their people manage wealth and not poverty.
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