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In the eyes of Dr. Claudel Pétrin-Desrosiers, the government “just lost a lot of credibility when it comes to climate action”.
“I am discouraged. We have a government that calls itself a climate leader, which brags about it everywhere and there, we are in a decision that opposes what science tells us, that hundreds of scientists recommend to us if we want to have the possibility of limiting global warming”, lamented the president of the Quebec Association of Physicians for the Environment, Thursday, in the bulletin Noovo Le Fil 17.
“It’s a slap in the face in science.”
“The primacy of the economy beyond our future”
Bay du Nord would be Canada’s first deepwater project to produce oil, with wells around 1,200 meters deep pumping around 188,000 barrels of oil per day.
Led by Norwegian oil giant Equinor, the project is expected to pump billions of dollars into Newfoundland and Labrador’s coffers, but also ultimately spew millions of tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere of Newfoundland and Labrador every year. the planet.
“This is a project that is located in an ecological niche, added Dr. Pétrin-Desrosiers. We are talking about species at risk, an area where fish are consumed locally, that there are cetaceans and birds recognized as species at risk.
The family doctor also denounced the scheme of the Liberals, who would have tried to conceal this announcement with the unveiling of the federal budget.
“I think it’s not a decision of the Department of the Environment, but maybe a lot of other departments who have said that we have to save the economy of Newfoundland.”
“This is not an environmental transition project,” she said. What we see today is really the primacy of the economy beyond our future. It’s a pretty rude awakening.”
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