Letter to Elizabeth May Justin Tredeau and Tomas Mulcair RE: Canadians need progress, not pipelines! Ms. May, Mr. Mulcair and Mr. Trudeau, I have a few questions for you today #1 Progress The fundamental question becomes, what you consider to be progress? If infinite growth and global control of Canadian resources (the status quo) is your platform, Im sorry to say that you are NOT a leader and should reconsider your bid to lead our country into oblivion. #2 Opportunity Canada has an opportunity to be a leader in cutting edge green technology and leave the fossil fuel era behind before it is too late! #3 Climate Change Climate change will be a serious consequence of our production and use of fossil fuels for our children - for all future generations of Canadians, for all humanity and the natural world. As legislators and leaders of your parties you must have been briefed extensively about climate science, the suite of potential dangers, and the urgent mitigation timeline and scale of emission reduction necessary. You must know about the global carbon budget science for staying under the 2C guardrail protecting against dangerous climate change and how between two thirds to eighty percent of fossil fuel reserves must stay in the ground in order to stay under 2C. You must know that this must include coal and the most carbon emissions producing fossil fuels which must specifically include the tar sands. You must also know that effective mitigation must include no new investment in fossil fuel infrastructure such as pipelines. But each of you and your respective parties still support at least one of the proposed pipelines from an expanding oil sands. This contradiction between what legislators know should be effective action to mitigate climate change and short term political self interest bedevils every attempt at climate change solution. #4 Pipelines Im asking that each of you reconsider and take a stand committing your party to NO new pipelines, NO new investment in any tar sands infrastructure, and NO expansion of fossil fuel production in Canada. #5 Democracy Canadians would vote for you if you take a stand against the profoundly undemocratic petro-state politics being played by those who seek oil sands expansion, show leadership globally, maybe even be positive in inviting Canadians to consider a much more stable and equitable post-carbon economy, and even save Canadians precious dollars from projects that look to become expensive stranded assets before construction is even completed. You could get out in front on an issue that will only get more serious. #6 WATER I urge you to reconsider our most valuable resource; water To think that BILLIONS of liters of water are polluted EVERY DAY in the FRACKING process is insane! In BC we allow companies to take pure clean water and mix it with toxic chemicals and then force it into hydraulic fracturing (aka fracking) wells or drill sites that are digging for natural gas which shatter shale deposits, in turn releasing many gases such as methane into the atmosphere. These gases do not always come up through the drill, but are released into the aquifers, poisoning peoples drinking water and often destroy the aquifers that may be millions of years old! I know, I have seen this with my own eyes. YOU HAVE A CHOICE To lead this country down the road of short sighted economics based on global domination by hegemony and corporate fascism, or to reclaim our democracy! To continue the robbery of our resources by multi-national billionaires who do not even employ Canadians, or to localize our economy. To lead us further down the suicidal highway of carbon emissions and pipelines and pollution and climate chaos which is already responsible for countless casualties around the world, or to embrace innovation and MODERN technology! Canadians are awake are you? We want leaders who are BRAVE enough to speak TRUTH and LEAD us not into oblivion, but into peace, integrity and self reliance. I look forward to your response Jeremy Williams Powell River, BC
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 07:26:56 +0000
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