For anyone who hasn't followed Cdn and Albertan climate policy for the past 30 yrs, and who is listening to the raving of the right-wing press and UCP about the appt of @s_guilbeault & proposed caps on oil sands emissions . . . 1/
AB govts, in lock step with oil & gas corporations and their industry associations and big business associations like the Canadian Business Council have been obstructing meaningful action on GHG reduction since the words "Kyoto Protocol" were first pronounced. 2/
Ab's GHG emission reduction strategy is reducible to a technology fund, much of whose revenue is recycled to large emitters. The so-called "cap" on emissions from the oil sands permitted emissions to RISE rather than requiring them to fall. 3/
In exchange for *promises* that R&D investment will yield CCUS/CDR technologies that will reduce emissions from the oil sands by net zero by 2050 (when no politicians alive today will be in office) they demand the right to extract & export bitumen at current or higher volumes. 4/
Does anyone see a problem with that? Even if production emissions can be reduced by half by 2030 and to zero by 2050 (by which time the Q will be moot, or we'll be fried), there is still the problem of emissions at the consumption end. 5/
AB & Cdn "climate" policy remains mostly silent about this reality, and what it means for the viability of human and other life on Earth. Production emissions are a huge problem, but so is the PRODUCT. 6/
That is why we must plan the phasing out of oil & gas *extraction and exports* and build an economy for Albertans and everyone else that meets our needs and is ecologically sustainable. 7/
Postmedia columnists and UCPers can shriek as much as they like about not being consulted, AB's "raw deal," or the "radicalism" of M, Guilbeault, & demanding applause for their investment in CDR--like kids who were told the show was over in an hr and are now having tantrums. 8/
No one--outside of the UCP, CAPP, & their clients, cronies, and apologists--is listening. We're tuned to other channels, where people are discussing real solutions for oil & gas sector workers, for Indigenous communities, for all our relations, for the generations to come. 9/
As for the @abndpcaucus, it's time to exercise some real leadership, working with civil society and the federal govt, to develop a green transition plan for Alberta. #Alberta deserves better than UCP and UCP-Light when it comes to a vision for our future. 10/
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