Tell Government to Improve the Emissions Cap and Make it Happen Now!

You can also read more facts about the emissions cap here.

Do you think it’s fair corporations get to do less than you to lower their emissions?

Oil and gas corporations are Canada’s biggest polluters —responsible for around  30% of our national emissions (despite being only 5% of our economy). While other sectors and individual Canadians have cut emissions, these oil and gas corporations have let their emissions rise despite easy solutions being available.  A historic policy has been announced that would hold the biggest polluters to the same standards as the rest of us, standards they promised they could meet.

An emissions cap is easy for oil and gas corporations to follow, an emissions cap will NOT cost our economy, is NOT a production cap, and will save thousands of Canadian lives via air pollution reductions alone. After the U.S. election, it just became more important than ever that we hold these corporations to their promises and lessen the power of corporate lobbyists who have set in motion horrific plans in the U.S. and want to do the same in Canada.

The health impacts of this preventable corporate pollution already affect Albertans in particular. According to CBC News: “A new peer-reviewed study on the health impacts of pollution from Alberta’s oil and gas sector has found the odds of having negative respiratory and cardiovascular health outcomes increase by nine to 21 per cent, depending on the number of oil and gas wells a person lives near.”

A fair cap on emissions from oil and gas, at the same level as Canada’s national climate target (45% below 2005 levels by 2030), would avoid the premature deaths of approximately 4,860 people in Canada over a decade, and come with economic benefit of CAD $45.1 billion, according to a new analysis from the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE), this is before considering the climate change and non-fatal impacts of the air pollution prevented by a strong cap.

Right now these wealthy corporations are fighting to weaken and delay the emissions cap.

Send a message to the government, Prime Minister, and Environment and Natural Resources Ministers to call for the cap to be put in place now. Canadian communities are being devastated by wildfires and floods – there isn’t time to lose.