Stop The Cap On Oil And Gas
13,230 signatures
Goal: 20,000 Signatures
Update - 7th December 2023
With the United Nations’s 28th Climate Change Conference in Dubai generating headlines, we all knew it was only a matter of time before Canada’s radical eco-activist Environment Minister did something stupid.
And here it is, from Steven Guilbeault himself:
"The Government of Canada's plan to cap and reduce emissions from Canada's largest emitting sector is ambitious, but practical. It considers the global demand for oil and gas — and the importance of the sector in Canada's economy — and sets a limit that is strict, but achievable."
That’s right, folks - the Oil and Gas emissions/production cap is finally upon us.
We launched a campaign last year, around this same time, warning that this was coming.
Now, we know just how bad it actually is.
The framework that's being proposed by the federal government would cap emissions at 35%-38% below 2019 levels.
How exactly would this be done?
What will it cost?
No one knows.
The federal government just says that they'll release the details via regulation sometime next year.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is livid, issuing a statement:
“[The announcement is an] intentional attack by the federal government on the economy of Alberta and the financial well-being of millions of Albertans and Canadians.”
“Justin Trudeau and his eco-extremist Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Steven Guilbeault, are risking hundreds of billions of investments in Alberta's and Canada's economy."
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe echoed Smith:
“[The cap] will have serious economic impacts on Canadians and limit our sustainable Canadian energy products from providing heat and electricity to the world.”
“Saskatchewan will protect our constitutional right to build our economy in accordance with the priorities of Saskatchewan families and businesses.”
The federal government has been in legal hot water lately over constitutional overreaches - with the Supreme Court deeming the Impact Assessment Act unconstitutional in October and the Federal Court ruling the plastics ban unconstitutional in November.
Ottawa has consistently ignored provincial jurisdiction on a wide range of issues, and their inability to stay in their constitutional lane has been a major source of tension with the provinces.
This emissions cap is just the latest example, as natural resource development is guaranteed to be the sole jurisdiction of the provinces in the Constitution of Canada.
As such, the emissions cap is clearly unconstitutional - but even if it wasn't, it would be a terrible policy anyway.
First, it’s an admission by the government that the carbon tax - their signature climate change policy - is not working.
The entire purpose of the tax was to be a “market mechanism” to reduce emissions, and yet now they're admitting that they need even more regulations to reduce emissions.
This cap is a direct and deliberate attack on western Canada’s oil and gas industry.
Remember - the cap will not apply to any industry other than oil and gas.
Ontario’s automotive industry, Quebec’s cement industry, and other high-emitting industries in other parts of Canada are not having their emissions capped.
The cap also excludes refineries - even though that is part of the oil and gas industry - because many of Canada's refineries happen to be in regions of the country that mostly vote Liberal.
If the federal government were actually concerned about the environment, they would implement policies designed to reduce emissions across all industries and all regions of Canada.
Instead, the hypocritical and political nature of Ottawa’s climate agenda reveals their true intentions and undermines the credibility of their entire plan.
That's why we're renewing our campaign calling on the federal government to back off, respect the Constitution, and stop infringing on provincial jurisdiction.
If you agree, please sign our petition to Stop The Cap On Oil And Gas.
Stop The Cap On Oil And Gas
This week, Environment and Climate Change Minister, Steven Guilbeault, effectively announced the end of Canada's oil and gas industry.
In Egypt, at COP27, he announced that his government will cap oil and gas sector emissions from the end of next year, and work to reduce them after that.
Remember, even Justin Trudeau said that no country would find 173 billion barrels of oil in the ground and just leave them there.
But that, of course, was before he was Prime Minister.
Radical environmental activist Steven Guilbeault does believe we should leave 173 billion barrels of oil in the ground.
Now, yes, technically, he said he would cap and reduce emissions, not oil and gas production, and some energy companies are confident they can find efficiencies to allow them to continue producing some oil and gas without increasing emissions.
But anyone who's been in the game long enough has seen the goalposts moved often enough to recognize another goalpost shifting when they see it, and that's exactly what happened today.
How so?
Well, you would think Minister Guilbeault's friends in the eco-activist industry - the same people who just a few years ago were calling for this cap on emissions - would be happy about this week's announcement, wouldn't you?
But no, these same people who were calling for exactly this policy just a few years ago actually attacked his announcement.
They think that this week's announcement - the policy they were calling for until recently - is woefully inadequate.
They now want, you guessed it, a cap on production.
They don't actually care about the level of carbon emissions, they don't actually care whether emissions go down, they want the amount of oil and gas produced to go down.
The radical eco-activist environmental movement doesn't want our oil and gas industry to be more environmentally friendly, they want our oil and gas industry to die.
Meanwhile, having shifted the goalposts a dozen times already - the federal government's environmental policies are as close to a complete ban on oil and gas as you can get, without actually banning it.
One more goalpost shift, and it will be an outright ban.
The environmental groups are pushing for that last final goalpost shift.
And we're just supposed to trust the federal government that, despite all the previous times they shifted the goalposts, this time they definitely won't.
The time to stand up and push back is now.
If we don't do so right now, it might be too late.
In the 1980s, Alberta Premier, Peter Lougheed, fought for - and won - an amendment to the Canadian Constitution - Section 92A - that gave the Provinces the exclusive right to explore, develop, conserve, and manage their natural resources.
This amendment made clear that these resources belonged to the Provinces, not the federal government.
Justin Trudeau and Steven Guilbeault do not believe in that clause in the Canadian Constitution.
They have already ignored it many times, and intend to continue to ignore it.
Justin Trudeau's view is that the provinces can do whatever they want with their resources... as long as whatever we want to do is exactly what the federal government wants us to do.
And the new federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change's view is that we should leave them in the ground - all of them.
Enough is enough.
If you agree, please join our campaign to stop the cap on oil and gas.
13,230 signatures
Goal: 20,000 Signatures
Update - 7th December 2023
With the United Nations’s 28th Climate Change Conference in Dubai generating headlines, we all knew it was only a matter of time before Canada’s radical eco-activist Environment Minister did something stupid.
And here it is, from Steven Guilbeault himself:
"The Government of Canada's plan to cap and reduce emissions from Canada's largest emitting sector is ambitious, but practical. It considers the global demand for oil and gas — and the importance of the sector in Canada's economy — and sets a limit that is strict, but achievable."
That’s right, folks - the Oil and Gas emissions/production cap is finally upon us.
We launched a campaign last year, around this same time, warning that this was coming.
Now, we know just how bad it actually is.
The framework that's being proposed by the federal government would cap emissions at 35%-38% below 2019 levels.
How exactly would this be done?
What will it cost?
No one knows.
The federal government just says that they'll release the details via regulation sometime next year.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is livid, issuing a statement:
“[The announcement is an] intentional attack by the federal government on the economy of Alberta and the financial well-being of millions of Albertans and Canadians.”
“Justin Trudeau and his eco-extremist Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Steven Guilbeault, are risking hundreds of billions of investments in Alberta's and Canada's economy."
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe echoed Smith:
“[The cap] will have serious economic impacts on Canadians and limit our sustainable Canadian energy products from providing heat and electricity to the world.”
“Saskatchewan will protect our constitutional right to build our economy in accordance with the priorities of Saskatchewan families and businesses.”
The federal government has been in legal hot water lately over constitutional overreaches - with the Supreme Court deeming the Impact Assessment Act unconstitutional in October and the Federal Court ruling the plastics ban unconstitutional in November.
Ottawa has consistently ignored provincial jurisdiction on a wide range of issues, and their inability to stay in their constitutional lane has been a major source of tension with the provinces.
This emissions cap is just the latest example, as natural resource development is guaranteed to be the sole jurisdiction of the provinces in the Constitution of Canada.
As such, the emissions cap is clearly unconstitutional - but even if it wasn't, it would be a terrible policy anyway.
First, it’s an admission by the government that the carbon tax - their signature climate change policy - is not working.
The entire purpose of the tax was to be a “market mechanism” to reduce emissions, and yet now they're admitting that they need even more regulations to reduce emissions.
This cap is a direct and deliberate attack on western Canada’s oil and gas industry.
Remember - the cap will not apply to any industry other than oil and gas.
Ontario’s automotive industry, Quebec’s cement industry, and other high-emitting industries in other parts of Canada are not having their emissions capped.
The cap also excludes refineries - even though that is part of the oil and gas industry - because many of Canada's refineries happen to be in regions of the country that mostly vote Liberal.
If the federal government were actually concerned about the environment, they would implement policies designed to reduce emissions across all industries and all regions of Canada.
Instead, the hypocritical and political nature of Ottawa’s climate agenda reveals their true intentions and undermines the credibility of their entire plan.
That's why we're renewing our campaign calling on the federal government to back off, respect the Constitution, and stop infringing on provincial jurisdiction.
If you agree, please sign our petition to Stop The Cap On Oil And Gas.
Stop The Cap On Oil And Gas
This week, Environment and Climate Change Minister, Steven Guilbeault, effectively announced the end of Canada's oil and gas industry.
In Egypt, at COP27, he announced that his government will cap oil and gas sector emissions from the end of next year, and work to reduce them after that.
Remember, even Justin Trudeau said that no country would find 173 billion barrels of oil in the ground and just leave them there.
But that, of course, was before he was Prime Minister.
Radical environmental activist Steven Guilbeault does believe we should leave 173 billion barrels of oil in the ground.
Now, yes, technically, he said he would cap and reduce emissions, not oil and gas production, and some energy companies are confident they can find efficiencies to allow them to continue producing some oil and gas without increasing emissions.
But anyone who's been in the game long enough has seen the goalposts moved often enough to recognize another goalpost shifting when they see it, and that's exactly what happened today.
How so?
Well, you would think Minister Guilbeault's friends in the eco-activist industry - the same people who just a few years ago were calling for this cap on emissions - would be happy about this week's announcement, wouldn't you?
But no, these same people who were calling for exactly this policy just a few years ago actually attacked his announcement.
They think that this week's announcement - the policy they were calling for until recently - is woefully inadequate.
They now want, you guessed it, a cap on production.
They don't actually care about the level of carbon emissions, they don't actually care whether emissions go down, they want the amount of oil and gas produced to go down.
The radical eco-activist environmental movement doesn't want our oil and gas industry to be more environmentally friendly, they want our oil and gas industry to die.
Meanwhile, having shifted the goalposts a dozen times already - the federal government's environmental policies are as close to a complete ban on oil and gas as you can get, without actually banning it.
One more goalpost shift, and it will be an outright ban.
The environmental groups are pushing for that last final goalpost shift.
And we're just supposed to trust the federal government that, despite all the previous times they shifted the goalposts, this time they definitely won't.
The time to stand up and push back is now.
If we don't do so right now, it might be too late.
In the 1980s, Alberta Premier, Peter Lougheed, fought for - and won - an amendment to the Canadian Constitution - Section 92A - that gave the Provinces the exclusive right to explore, develop, conserve, and manage their natural resources.
This amendment made clear that these resources belonged to the Provinces, not the federal government.
Justin Trudeau and Steven Guilbeault do not believe in that clause in the Canadian Constitution.
They have already ignored it many times, and intend to continue to ignore it.
Justin Trudeau's view is that the provinces can do whatever they want with their resources... as long as whatever we want to do is exactly what the federal government wants us to do.
And the new federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change's view is that we should leave them in the ground - all of them.
Enough is enough.
If you agree, please join our campaign to stop the cap on oil and gas.
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