We must never forget or forgive this evil Carney quote:
“First Ministers agreed that Canada must work urgently to get Canadian natural resources and commodities to domestic and international markets, such as … decarbonized Canadian oil and gas by pipelines”
It’s impossible to “decarbonize” anything fossil fuel, that’s the problem with it. And, in my view, Herr Polluter-lover Carney knows it, he’s too intelligent not to.
@VeldonCoburn Jun 4:
Tell Mark Carney that he doesn’t have a veto over First Nations territorial title and rights.
Some Canadian official–Premiers Ford in Ontario & Smith in Alberta–are becoming far too comfortable stepping on Indigenous nations & peoples rights & title. PM Carney’s Justice Minister had to backpeddle today on his cavalier attitude. #IdleNoMore is never far from the surface.
@alespassafiume:
Justice Minister Sean Fraser apologized Wednesday for comments he made about the government’s duty to consult with Indigenous leaders on major projects, saying First Nations don’t have a “veto.”
National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak said Fraser’s comments follow a series of missteps from the Liberals this week, and that they aren’t helpful at building relationships.
“I was taken aback,” she said. Fraser apologized directly to her Tuesday night.
Fraser apologizes, says comments on Indigenous consultation eroded trust, Fraser said Tuesday that the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples requires consultation but does not amount to “a blanket veto power” over projects by Alessia Passafiume, June 4, 2025, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA – Justice Minister Sean Fraser apologized Wednesday for comments he made about the government’s duty to consult with Indigenous leaders on major projects.
Fraser said Tuesday that the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples requires consultation but does not amount to “a blanket veto power” over projects. Similar language asserting UNDRIP does not convey a veto is used in federal government documents about the declaration.
Speaking to reporters Wednesday, Fraser said Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak called him Tuesday night to express her frustration with his comments, and he apologized.
“Despite innocent intentions, I think my comments actually caused hurt and potentially eroded a very precarious trust that has been built up over many years to respect the rights of Indigenous people in this country,” Fraser said.
“I’ve come into a position that I think is essential in the process of respecting the rights of Indigenous Peoples and I wanted to make sure that just not Chief Woodhouse but Indigenous leaders, Indigenous Peoples across this country know that my desire and the government of Canada’s desire is to move forward on a relationship.”
Woodhouse Nepinak said it’s “disheartening” when politicians make such comments and the government has made a series of missteps since her Thursday meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney.
“When the prime minister’s trying to start a relationship with First Nations in a good way, it’s disheartening when comments are made later, twice now actually this week,” she said, citing Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Rebecca Alty saying that work to fill the First Nations infrastructure gap won’t qualify for Ottawa’s push to fast-track what it calls “nation-building” projects.
Woodhouse Nepinak said she was then taken aback by Fraser’s comment.
“He called to apologize,” she said. “He needs to apologize to First Nations for those comments.”
The UN declaration, which Canada adopted, requires free, prior and informed consent from Indigenous Peoples on matters affecting their rights, lands, territories and resources.
The federal government says that declaration does not amount to a “veto,” but Indigenous leaders have long called for changes to how it approaches the duty to consult.
Indigenous Peoples also have distinct rights enshrined in the Constitution, along with treaty and inherent rights.
Fraser said talking about the declaration in terms of veto power assumes that the federal government and Indigenous people are working against each another.
“In my experience engaging with Indigenous leaders, their perspective is one of wanting to have their rights respected and wanting to share in the benefits of development,” Fraser said.
“So, as we go forward, whether it’s on the major projects initiative we’ll be working on or any issue that touches on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, I want to be absolutely clear that our desire is to work in partnership and at every stage of the process, from project selection to conditions that may be imposed. We’re going to engage, properly consult and work in partnership to respect the rights of Indigenous Peoples.”
“Desire” is another escape hatch word like “committment” used for future wiggling out of precisely what is stated is desired. Douche. Why not just say the gov’t will work in partnership instead of desiring to? “We’re going to” is better, but preceded by “desire” leaves bad taste in my mouth.
Fraser’s remarks come as First Nations leaders mount opposition to the push by the federal and provincial governments to fast-track what they call “nation-building” projects in response to increased uncertainty in the Canada-U.S. trading relationship.In my view, it has nothing to do with that, and everything to do with good old white man greed and the oil and gas industry owning our politicians
Indigenous leaders say they haven’t been properly consulted on provincial plans. They’ve warned Ottawa that widespread protests and blockades are possible if they are not meaningfully consulted on federal legislation to speed up approvals of major infrastructure projects.
Tabatha Bull, the president and CEO of the Canadian Council for Indigenous Businesses, told an audience at the Canadian Club of Toronto on Wednesday that they’re seeing policies that “might push us backwards.”
“We need corporate Canada to stand up and be accomplices and say these projects aren’t going to go faster without Indigenous partnerships, and they need to be at the table with us in talking to the government,” she said.
@holtscat.bsky.social:
A Bill to allow Cabinet to suspend laws – makes a mockery of all the work, debate, voting, enforcement capacity etc., that prior governments took seriously and believed was their duty. Some might say this is legalizing treason.
@amirattaran.bsky.social:
This is bad. Carney’s new bill can be used to eliminate environmental assessment for projects of national interest. Indigenous Peoples are probably going to sue over that.
First Nations don’t have a veto over nation-building projects, Mark Carney’s justice minister says, Sean Fraser said the legal duty under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People is viewed by experts as limited by Tonda-MacCharles, June 3, 2025, The Globe and Mail
OTTAWA—Justice Minister Sean Fraser says the federal duty to consult and engage Indigenous people on major nation-building projects does not amount to granting those communities a veto.
After the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) warned Prime Minister Mark Carney he must secure Indigenous Peoples’ consent to his plans to expedite massive infrastructure projects, citing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, Fraser said the legal duty under that declaration is viewed by international experts and the current government as limited.
“In most circumstances, I think it demands a very deep level of, of engagement and understanding of the rights that may be impacted. And to the extent that those rights can be accommodated, we should make every effort to. The explicit nature of a veto — so from my understanding — is it stops short of a complete veto,” Fraser said in response to the Star’s questions Tuesday.
“But it certainly, in my view, heightens the demands upon government to engage fully to both understand the nature of the rights that could be impacted by decisions taken by the government, but also the heightened duty to accommodate those rights that are baked into our treaties and protected by our Constitution.”Bla bla Alberta Synergy bla bla bla. Words that really mean: Fuck You and your rights and lands.
The first ministers meeting in Saskatoon ended Monday with Carney promising Indigenous leaders would be deeply involvedoh ya? Like this industry propaganda, worm tongue synergy and disrespect?in the development of “nation-building” projects that all premiers are keen to accelerate, and which Carney intends to fast-track with new legislation, tighter timelines for approvals, and possibly federal infrastructure money as he squares off against President Donald Trump’s tariff war.Translation: Use the USA Nazis to do as Harper did, massively deregulate to legally violate rights, environment and impacted communities, while making the rich richer and fucking Indigenous and ordinary Canadians over.
Mark Carney, premiers agree on ‘nation-building priorities,’ but First Nations raise alarms over lack of consultation
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Fraser said “international commentary and the limited jurisprudence” interpreting the UN declaration indicates that “we do need to fully engage and to the extent there’s a potential to have a more direct impact on Aboriginal and treaty rights, it demands a higher degree of engagement.”
But, he said, experts have suggested “that is not necessarily a blanket veto power.”Who are these experts? Racist bigot Gwyn Morgan, ex CEO of illegal aquifer frac’er Encana/Ovintiv? Racist bigot Steve Harper? Racist bigot Jason Kenney? … Why are the experts not named in this article so that we can call them up to verify?
“But of course, we’re in new territory here. Over the course of the next generation, I expect the courts are going to do some significant work, but hopefully a lot of that work is actually going to be done between governments and Indigenous Peoples themselves through engagement and conversations.”Ahhhhh, the usual threats, bribes and more threats if the bribes are not accepted.
Fraser’s comments represent the first clear statement of how Carney’s government will interpret the UN declaration and Canadian law when it comes to consulting Inuit, First Nations and Métis people about projects on lands over which they may hold treaty or constitutional land claims.
It stands in contrast to how many Indigenous leaders view the Crown’s legal obligation to consult them, many of whom argue it grants the power to consent to or deny economic development proposals.I agree with Indigenous leaders, and vehemently disagree and am disgusted by Harper-Con Carney’s gov’ts rude and crude dismissal of Indigenous peoples, and UNDRIP. Colonialism, land thefts, abuses, hatred just never ends.
Canada adopted legislation and an action plan to implement the UN declaration under then-justice minister David Lametti, now principal secretary to Carney.
The AFN, the national advocacy group for First Nations, on Monday reminded Carney of his legal obligations to consult and obtain the consent of affected communities when drawing up the legislation to fast-track projects, and when deciding on which projects will be designated “nation-building” and qualify for expedited approvals.
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Without the “free, prior and informed consent” of those communities, the AFN warned Carney’s plan will be mired in conflict and litigation.
Both B.C. and Ontario governments have faced pushback from Indigenous groups as they tried to expedite resource development projects.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has moved to amend a controversial bill in an effort to address concerns that Indigenous treaty rights and environmental protections are under threat. His government has proposed to allow Indigenous-led special economic zones over mining and infrastructure projects that could benefit their communities. In B.C. First Nations leaders say a new mining framework should recognize a “duty to consent” not a duty to consult. Doug Ford’s Tories amend controversial mining bill to allay First Nation concerns
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“I believe in duty to consult,” Ford told reporters in Toronto Tuesday. “I believe in treaty rights. But we can’t take two, three years for duty to consult.Of course you and the Harper Carney Cons can! The white man’s speedy greedy schedule has throughout history destroyed more than it created or protected, rewarding only the rich while polluting, harming and stealing from everyone else and the future. Humanity is now nearing the end of survival on this magnificent planet we’ve brutally raped and plundered, as are many other species. No, we do not need to move forward, we, the white man needs to fucking slow down and appropriately think first, assess fully, assess and think fully and carefully again, while consulting fully, legally, and obtaining consent.We need to move forward. What I’ve experienced, when they have an equity partnership in any deal, the duty consult moves rapidly. Really quick, which is a good thing, but there’s an opportunity unlike they’ve ever seen before, and we just want a great partnership.”Abusive hideous human. Really quick is never a good thing except at the races. Really quick in this context means rip Indigenous peoples and communities and the environment off.
He said there are “many, many chiefs” that want developments like northern Ontario’s Ring of Fire mining region to be developed. “They want this road built. They want the quality of life for their kids that they never had, and that’s what we’re providing with them, and they’re going to be great partners as we move forward.”I don’t believe a word spewed from Ford’s mouth, he’s proven himself a liar over and over, and that’s he’s a super asshat bully who caters to criminals, notably rich, while plundering the commons.
Fraser, the federal justice minister, speaking to reporters before a cabinet meeting in Ottawa Tuesday, said that “when we get down to the actual project decisions, it’s important that we fully understand the potential impact that those projects could have on rights that are protected in our treaties and again, protected by our constitution before we actually move forward with specific projects.”The Harper-Con Carney govt here shows us with it’s insulting words, potential and could, that it’s prepping to say these massive polluting invasive projects will — in their expert speedy greedy opinions — have no impacts to worry about or consult about, or pay compensation for. The stupid disgusting white man aims to rape and steal from Indigenous again, and the rest of us ordinary Canadians in the path of massive destruction and life-destroying pollution for profit, as usual.
He said Ottawa has had “some engagement to date leading up to this first ministers meeting,” adding the engagement is “ongoing.”
However, AFN national chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak in a letter to Carney released Monday said it was insufficient for Ottawa to merely provide a letter and a three-page background document without providing the proposed legislation for fast-tracking project approvals to First Nations.It’s not just insufficient, it’s fucking illegal and rude.
Nepinak said she told Carney in a meeting last week that when it comes to “nation-building projects,” Canada needs to start with fast-tracking the basics like clean water, quality housing, modern schools, all-season roads and community infrastructure.Yes, and to do that, must stop giving all Canada’s riches to the rich while stomping on the rest of us that live here and globally with the destruction and harms caused by climate chaos.
Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Rebecca Alty said that while closing the First Nations infrastructure gap is important, it’s not considered nation-building and would be pursued outside the proposed legislation.
Fraser said the prime minister “has committed to engaging over the course of the summer directly with Indigenous leaders.”There’s the oil and gas industry’s fucking escape hatch word, again. Being committed to, usually means doing everything possible to fuck over and steal from Indigenous peoples and communities living in the way of fast big money for a few insanely greedy fat rich old (usually incredibly cruel and ugly) white man fuckers.
“We’ve learned over the course of Canada’s history if you exclude rights holders from the conversation, in the long term, it’s actually going to slow you down. So putting in the work up front to make sure that the nature of the rights that could be impacted are well understood and moving forwardTranslation: When gov’t or industry says “moving forward” is “Fuck You and your rights, waters and lands”, preferably but not necessarily in the reality we Carney Cons intend to abuse Indigenous and other impacted Canadians in collaboration with Indigenous partners, is going to set you up for success in the long term.”
But, said Fraser, there are many Canadians that do want to see projects move more swiftly.I think you are wrong, Mr. Fraser. You are gaslighting us. You are mixing up racist Nazi old white man greed with ordinary Canadians who care deeply about land rights, respect, fairness, sharing, caring and living in safe healthy communities, with access to safe drinking water, food, reliable public services and energy
“It’s also very clear in my community and communities across the country, Canadians want to see major projects that advance the national interest approved more quickly than the existing regime has for those key projects that are nation building. So the prime minister has made that commitment.Yup, Harper-Con Carney fully dropped his liberal disguise. What a fucking shit show betrayal of many who voted for this Harper gov’t thinking it was liberal. We’re going to be moving forward with measures that will help move forward those projects in the national interestWhat the fuck does national interest mean? Interest to whom? Rich old ugly cruel orange idiot Trump and a few others? We’ve seen it all before, but this time, it’ll be much worse lies, rape and pillage than usual because the rich old ugly cruel white men know they’re running out of time to fill their bunkers of greed as humans fast destroy earth’s livability, but we’re going to do what we can lie and steam roll people and our country and her environment so fast and hard, our heads will spin offto do it in collaboration with Indigenous partners along the way.”
After the first ministers meeting ended Monday in Saskatoon, premiers emerged singing Carney’s praisesThat means the con jobs intended by Harper-Con Carney are much worse than even I fear, and vowing to work to eliminate remaining internal trade barriers, to consult with Indigenous leaders, to streamline their own provincial permitting processes FUCK~! No wonder the premiers were/are orgasmic with Harper-Con Carney – greed dreams over load!and where possible co-operate with Ottawa to assign major projects a single environmental impact assessmentThat’s triple bad. Environmental assessments in Canada are far feeble as they currently stand. Carney is continuing where Herr Hideous Harper left off when Canadians wisely voted his bigoted nasty polluting ass out, and will undo all the repairs to Harper’s harms by Justin Trudeauunder the rubric of “one-project, one-review” that Carney has been touting. Carney, for his part, said the federal government will introduce legislation to eliminate federal barrierstranslation: deregulate deregulate deregulate and give industry freedom to rape Canada and us and our loved ones, homes, communities more than ever before as we watch our country burn up to internal trade and to establish a Major Federal Projects Office with the stated mandate to reduce approvals time for designated “nation-building” resource and infrastructure projects from five years to two.I am sick of human greed destroying everything I love, most especially water, and everything I need to survive the hideousness of living among humans, and evil cons like Ford, Smith, Moe, Carney and his boss Harper, etc.
He also endorsed the possible approval, and even federal support for, a future oil pipeline project that could bring oilsands exports from Alberta to tidewater — whether via the West in northwest B.C. or the East to ports in Churchill as long as it carries “decarbonized” barrels of Canadian oil to international markets, which Carney declared would be in the “national interest.”Fuck you Harper-Con Carney. That’s not in the national interest, that’s putting the final knife into human life on earth, and you and your wife have four children! Their futures will be fucked, if not already; Harper has two kids, Mulroney also, their kids’ futures will be fucked, if not already. Criminal liar thief Mulroney started this mess via his brutal betrayal of all Canadians with NAFTA, forcing us to give away our natural gas to Nazi USA for less than cost of production, and taking away jobs for endless innocent hard working Canadian families.
PS My community’s drinking water aquifers remain illegally frac’d.
Given the extreme years long drought out west, the climate chaos caused ferociousness of wildfires devouring communities, forests and other species, including at risk, and their habitats, year in year out, and human greed destroying and removing vital water from the hydrogeological cycle via frac’ing and injected for enhance oil recovery, it is in the national interest to order frac’d aquifers repaired and to criminalize frac’ing.
@jamiemackinnon.bsky.social:
Scott Moe’s priorities: “repealing the oil and gas emissions cap and expanding pipeline capacity.”
Meanwhile, toxic air pollutes much of #Saskatchewan.
air-pollution
asthma
environment
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@jennyyeremiy.bsky.social:
For the record, Canadians, a pipeline across Canada is absolutely UNNECESSARY and a waste of money. It doesn’t solve any energy security or climate crisis issues. It CREATES more of them. WTAF
JustStopAndCleanUpOil #cdnpoli #EnoughIsEnough #abpoli
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@bagpiper59.bsky.social:
Three things Carney is talking about that concern me.
Pipelines.
Becoming an “energy superpower”
Data/ai centres.
I can’t imagine what magic he can perform, to reconcile these plans, with the need to reduce carbon emissions.
I sincerely hope we haven’t duped. The jury is still out, here.
@race2extinct.bsky.social:
Fossil fuel defenders are honest about their destruction. Techno-fixers just rebrand it as salvation. You can’t “engineer away” overshoot on a finite planet. AI or not, truth still depends on ecology. Nature doesn’t negotiate with ambition.
“One-time build” is a marketing myth. Tech doesn’t eliminate mining—it accelerates it. Growth outpaces efficiency. Reuse is limited, recycling is partial, and renewables require vast land, metals, and infrastructure. It’s not a transition—it’s expansion
@jennyyeremiy.bsky.social:
Not to mention this is what TMX was supposed to deliver already! Yet it’s not even close to capacity and never will be.
Such a waste of money and continued environmental harm.
Map from a CBC article June 7, 2025 with a nasty misleading (intentional I think) headline suggesting arson is to blame for the shit show fires currently burning up everything in their paths. How much did the oil and gas industry, and or, Ms. Love-to-Blame-Arson quisling queen Danielle Smith pay them for that?
@collapse2050.bsky.social:
The Earth’s energy imbalance has more than doubled in the past two decades, reaching 1.8 watts per square meter in 2023 – twice what climate models predicted!
@race2extinct.bsky.social:
Carbon removal is a distraction from collapse, not a solution. It won’t bring back extinct species, clean the oceans, stop toxins, or regrow forests.
… Calling ourselves “a force of nature” doesn’t exempt us from nature’s rules. Infinite growth on a finite planet isn’t sustainable—no matter how “natural” we claim to be. Dinosaurs were natural too. They’re gone.
@lions99.bsky.social:
Carbon removal means keep plundering
@nonviolence.bsky.social:
Carbon removal is a Weapon of Mass Distraction.
@avianandloaded.bsky.social:
It’s almost as if we know that the more we screw things up, the sooner the laws of thermodynamics are going to kick our asses back to the stone age, if they let us live at all.
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@susanodo.bsky.social:
Awesome!!! Thank you!!! I love this.
@vjm4democracy.bsky.social:
According to CBC radio news this morning, reporting from the premiers meeting, it sounds like that message is getting through.
@eastpole.bsky.social:
I am glad you did this. The cost of soon-to-be-stranded energy assets like pipelines and refineries would hit at exactly the same time as we have to pay for vastly increased wildfire resistance, decreased agricultural productivity, drinking water scarcity, etc.
Des pipelines au Québec? Le mouvement citoyen dit non à un retour en arrière! by Katherine Massam, May 26, 2025, Le Devoir
L’autrice est secrétaire générale du Regroupement vigilance énergie Québec. Elle cosigne cette lettre avec 83 organisations citoyennes et personnalités publiques ayant contribué directement à la lutte contre les projets d’énergies fossiles au Québec au cours des dernières décennies. Elle est aussi endossée par 29 organisations environnementales et autres ainsi que par plusieurs dizaines de citoyens.* Publié à 0h00 Idées
Mesdames et messieurs les parlementaires du Québec à Ottawa et à Québec, messieurs les candidats à la chefferie du Parti libéral du Québec, ceci est un message du mouvement citoyen qui a fait échec aux projets d’énergies fossiles qu’on a tenté d’imposer au Québec au cours des dernières décennies : centrale au gaz du Suroît, port méthanier Rabaska, forages aux îles de la Madeleine, dans le golfe et le fleuve Saint-Laurent, dans la vallée du Saint-Laurent, en Gaspésie, au Bas-Saint-Laurent et sur l’île Anticosti, oléoduc Énergie Est et port pétrolier de Cacouna, gazoduc usine de liquéfaction GNL Québec (Gazoduq/Énergie Saguenay).
Au fil des ans, nous avons combattu sans relâche toutes les tentatives d’intrusion fossile au Québec. Nous avons tenu des séances d’information publiques et des assemblées de cuisine, publié des infolettres, organisé des forums citoyens, tapissé nos parterres de pancartes, talonné nos députés, fait signer 65 657 refus d’accès à la propriété, assailli nos conseils municipaux et obtenu l’adoption de centaines de déclarations, résolutions et règlements, marché, manifesté encore et encore, même au plus froid de l’hiver, pulvérisé la désinformation, encore et toujours, écrit des mémoires et des livres, participé aux consultations, même bidon, tourné et projeté des films, chanté, dessiné, donné des formations en résistance citoyenne, alerté les médias et fait tant d’autres choses.
Nos familles, nos amis, nos voisins ont compris les enjeux et, à la fin, chaque fois, nous avons remporté le combat de l’opinion publique. Ainsi, malgré la pugnacité avec laquelle les promoteurs et même les gouvernements ont voulu enfoncer ces projets dans la gorge des Québécois, ils ont tous été retirés.
C’est donc avec stupéfaction que nous avons appris que certains d’entre vous se disent « ouverts » à la construction d’oléoducs ou de gazoducs qui traverseraient le Québec. L’urgence climatique ne s’est pas atténuée depuis l’abandon des projets que nous avons vaincus. Elle s’accentue, et ses premières manifestations donnent déjà froid dans le dos. L’effondrement de la biodiversité, nourri par le dérèglement du climat, s’accélère aussi à un rythme terrifiant. Aucun doute : il faut cesser de produire, de distribuer et de brûler des combustibles fossiles. Nous nous battrons encore bec et ongles dans ce but, s’il le faut, et nous savons qu’une toute nouvelle génération de militants sautera à son tour dans l’arène pour défendre son droit à un avenir viable.
Monsieur Steven Guilbeault, lieutenant du Parti libéral du Canada au Québec, il vous revient de convaincre votre chef, le premier ministre Mark Carney, et vos collègues à Ottawa de ne pas céder au chantage de l’Alberta en faisant fi des choix du Québec. La nature ne peut plus souffrir de reculs stratégiques, vous le savez. Et les travailleurs et travailleuses du secteur pétrogazier méritent mieux que des emplois maintenus artificiellement par le déni scientifique.
Monsieur Yves-François Blanchet, chef du Bloc québécois, vous êtes le seul leader d’un grand parti fédéral à avoir opposé un non catégorique aux projets de pipelines. Nous comptons sur vous pour faire de cet engagement une priorité absolue et une condition de votre appui au gouvernement Carney.
Monsieur Alexandre Boulerice, député du Nouveau Parti démocratique au Québec, nous vous invitons à exiger plus de rigueur de votre parti : un pipeline qui « n’endommage pas l’environnement », comme l’a évoqué votre chef pendant la campagne, ça n’existe pas.
Mesdames et Messieurs les députés de la Coalition avenir Québec à l’Assemblée nationale, qui aviez promis de défendre les intérêts du Québec à Ottawa, comment avez-vous pu voter contre la motion du deuxième groupe d’opposition demandant au gouvernement de s’opposer à tout projet de pipeline au Québec ? La démonstration a été faite, sans ambiguïté, que de tels projets seraient néfastes pour le climat, compromettraient la santé des cours d’eau et des écosystèmes touchés, menaceraient l’eau potable de millions de Québécois, dans le cas d’un oléoduc, et auraient des retombées économiques minuscules pour le Québec.
Et vous, députés du Parti libéral du Québec, qui avez aussi rejeté la motion sur les pipelines, pourriez-vous rappeler aux candidats à la direction de votre parti que Philippe Couillard, dernier premier ministre libéral à ce jour, s’est cassé les dents sur le mur social que nous avons érigé entre le Québec et les projets fossiles qu’il caressait avec le lobby pétrogazier ? À vous d’encourager Pablo Rodriguez, Charles Milliard, Karl Blackburn et les autres aspirants chefs à renoncer bien vite à suivre ses traces dans ce cul-de-sac.
Mesdames et Messieurs les parlementaires québécois et candidats à la chefferie du PLQ, vous avez mieux à faire que de souffler sur les braises de la pétroéconomie canadienne, souvent au bénéfice d’investisseurs étrangers, mais toujours au détriment du Québec et de la planète. La transition sociale et écologique nous appelle et vous appelle. Unissons-nous pour la réaliser.
Ont cosigné cette lettre : Odette Sarrazin, Vigilance Brandonnie, Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon, depuis 2012 ; , Daniel Green, coprésident, Société pour vaincre la pollution, Philippe Duhamel, Comité Vigilance Hydrocarbures Trois-Rivières, depuis 2010 ; Stéphane Poirier, cofondateur de NON à une marée noire dans le Saint-Laurent, depuis 2010 ; Martin Poirier, Coule pas chez nous ; ! Alain Mignault, Chorale du peuple, Montréal, depuis 2011 ; Vincent Marchione, Comité de vigilance environnementale de l’est de Montréal (CVEEM) ; François Geoffroy, Travailleuses et travailleurs pour la justice climatique (TJC), organisateur des grèves climatiques de 2019 et 2022 ; Henri Jacob, président, Action boréale ; Shirley Barnea, porte-parole de Pour le futur Montréal (2019-2024), organisatrice de manifestations et grèves étudiantes ; Lucie Sauvé, professeure émérite, chercheuse du Centre de recherche en éducation et formation relatives à l’environnement et à l’écocitoyenneté, UQAM, responsable du Collectif scientifique sur les enjeux énergétiques au Québec ; Guy Coderre, enseignant à la retraite, Centre de formation en traitement de l’eau, auteur d’études sur la vulnérabilité des stations de purification d’eau en cas de contamination par les hydrocarbures (2016) ; Esther Auger, Pétroliques anonymes, Rivière-du-Loup (2013-2024) ; Dominic Champagne, artiste, militant contre le gaz de schiste, réalisateur du film Anticosti : la chasse au pétrole extrême ; Lucie Bergeron, membre de Stop Oléoduc Capitale-Nationale (2013-2019), aujourd’hui Transition Capitale-Nationale ; Sylvie Berthiaume, présidente, Solidarité Environnement Sutton ; Gisèle Comtois, membre de Mobilisation environnement Ahuntsic-Cartierville (MEAC) depuis 2015, Montréal ; Odette Lussier, citoyenne de L’Islet, membre de Stop Oléoduc Montmagny-L’Islet de 2013 à 2015 ; Greg Mikkelson, cofondateur, Cross Border Organizing Working Group ; Louis Couillard, ancien coordonnateur de la coalition contre GNL/Gazoduq, membre du comité organisateur de la marche pour le climat avec Greta Thunberg qui a réuni 500 000 personnes à Montréal et ailleurs au Québec. Aujourd’hui responsable de la campagne Climat — Énergie chez Greenpeace Canada ; Jacques Tétreault, coorganisateur de la campagne « Vous n’entrerez pas chez nous » : 65 657 lettres de refus d’accès à la propriété signées par des citoyens pour dire non à la fracturation, déposées à l’Assemblée nationale en 2012 et 2014 ; Martine Chatelain, présidente d’Eau Secours ! de 2010 à 2015, porte-parole jusqu’en 2018 ; France Pomminville, Réalité climatique Canada. Lucie Massé, porte-parole, Action Environnement Basses-Laurentides ; Nastassia Williams, porte-parole de Tache d’huile (2012-2018) ; Sophie Thiébaut, conseillère municipale de 2009 à 2021 (arrondissement du Sud-Ouest, Montréal), porteuse de résolutions d’opposition concernant la perte de pouvoir des municipalités à protéger leur territoire de l’extraction des hydrocarbures (loi 106) ainsi que la sécurité ferroviaire liée au déplacement des hydrocarbures ; Irène Dupuis, présidente, Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly – Milieu de vie et Lotbinière en transition (2015-2020), coorganisatrice des forums citoyens Quand l’or noir rencontre l’or bleu (2015) et Demain Lotbinière, on s’emballe pour le climat (2018) ; Rose-Hélène Tremblay, Environnement Vert Plus, Gaspésie (depuis 1986) ; Louise Morand, Comité vigilance hydrocarbures de la MRC de L’Assomption (depuis 2016) ; Marie-Claire Binet, présidente, L’Assomption en transition ; Pierre Dostie, comité de coordination de la Coalition Fjord (GazoduQ-GNL Non merci ! 2018-2021) ; Olivier D. Asselin, réalisateur de Pipelines, pouvoir et démocratie ; Annie Landry, citoyenne engagée des îles de la Madeleine, scénariste du film Le peuple de la mer et autrice de La pêche ou le pétrole ; Geoff Clayden, représentant, La Planète s’invite au parlement-Gaspé (2019-2022) ; Majorie Lapierre, Énergie alternative aux îles de la Madeleine (2010-2017) ; Lise Houle, Regroupement Gaz de schiste Verchères (2011-2018) ; Simon Côté, porte-parole de Stop Oléoduc Kamouraska (2013 à 2016), coordonnateur général d’Arbre-Évolution Coop ; Ellen Nutbrown, membre de Citoyens du bassin de Chambly contre l’oléoduc Énergie Est depuis 2016 ; Serge Fortier, Pierre Bluteau et Pierre Brazeau, cofondateurs du RIGSVSL (Regroupement interrégional sur le gaz de schiste de la vallée du Saint-Laurent) (2011-2014), instigateur d’un mouvement citoyen fort contre le gaz de schiste au Québec, et du CMAVI (Collectif, Moratoire, Alternatives, Vigilance et Intervention) (2014-2018) ; Normand Léo Beaudet, Diane Roy et Denise Brouillard, membres de la Coalition Alerte à l’enfouissement Rivière-du-Nord (CAER) opposée à l’inversion de l’oléoduc 9b d’Enbridge (2014) et au gazoduc Sainte-Sophie en lien avec le mégadépotoir de la multinationale WM (2023-2024) ; Mikael Rioux, Vigile citoyenne Cacouna, Marche des peuples pour la terre mère; André Lafrance, cofondateur du mouvement citoyen Alerte pétrole Rive-Sud (2014-2018) ; Guy Boudreau, Comité vigilance hydrocarbures Lavaltrie (2014-2023) ; Benoit St-Hilaire, Prospérité Sans Pétrole ; Me Rodrigue Turgeon, cofondateur et co-porte-parole du Collectif abitibien Gazoduq, parlons-en ! (2019 à 2021) ; Réal Lalande, coordonnateur, Stop Oléoduc Outaouais (SOO) de 2016 à 2018 et président, Action Climat Outaouais (ACO), dont les membres ont organisé la Marche citoyenne pour nos rivières en opposition au projet d’oléoduc Énergie Est, du 14 au 20 août 2016 ; Chantale Gamache, L’Association des Saint-Marcois; Denise Campillo, Comité de vigilance gaz de schiste de Roxton Falls ; Albert Geuzaine, coordonnateur régional Montérégie (RVHQ) — contre le gaz de schiste (2011-2013) ; Serge Giard, Comité gaz de schiste St-Hugues ; Gérard Montpetit, Comité Non-Schiste La Présentation et auteur du recueil L’histoire de la lutte aux hydrocarbures à travers 100 textesde Gérard Montpetit ; André Bélisle, président, Association québécoise de lutte contre la pollution atmosphérique (AQLPA) ; Éric Pineault, professeur, Département de sociologie et Institut des sciences de l’environnement, UQAM et auteur du livre Le piège Énergie Est ; Marc Nantel, Regroupement Vigilance Mines de l’Abitibi et du Témiscamingue ; Estelle Le Houx, Marche des peuples pour la terre mère ; Karen Busque, Les AmiEs de la Terre de Québec. Marc Brullemans, Comité vigilance gaz de schiste de la Mauricie et coordonnateur interrégional au RVHQ (2010 à 2018) ; Denise Laprise, militante, instigatrice de Montmagny en transition ; Raymond Gauthier, militant puis porte-parole du regroupement Madelinots pour le respect du golfe (MRG) de 2004 à 2013 et cofondateur de la Coalition Saint-Laurent ; France Mercille, coréalisatrice du film 20 000 puits sous les terres (2012) ; Catherine Berger, Rimouski en transition ; Joyce Renaud, fondatrice et vice-présidente de Mobilisation climat Trois-Rivières, opposante à Énergie Saguenay ; Marielle Boisjoly, militante, Regroupement vigilance Lanoraie ; Johanne Béliveau, citoyenne, coautrice de l’ouvrage L’héritage des luttes environnementales au Québec. Un souffle écocitoyen ; Laure Waridel, écosociologue et Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, cinéaste et autrice, instigatrices de Mères au front ; Gabrielle Spenard-Bernier et Myriam Thériault, codirectrices ; Alyssa Symons-Bélanger, La Marche pour le Vivant ; François Gagné et Guy Leclerc, architectes, membres du collectif fondateur de CAP-RN (Coalition Anti Pipeline-Rouyn-Noranda), film Une couleuvre dans ma chambre; Jacques Benoit, membre de GMob (Group Mobilisation) à l’origine de la Déclaration citoyenne universelle d’urgence climatique-DUC, corédacteur du Plan de la DUC ; Hugues Bonenfant, Comité de Vigilance de St-Valérien (2012-2019) ; Robert Marquette pour Solidarité populaire Richelieu Yamaska ; Martin Archambault membre fondateur de OLEA Oxygène Laval En Amont ; Marie-Eve Leclerc, organisatrice de la Marche Action Climat du 11 avril 2015 devant l’Assemblée nationale à Québec (25 000 personnes) et de la Marche 100 % Possible du 29 novembre 2015 devant le parlement d’Ottawa (aussi 25 000 personnes) ; Jean Falaise pour le Comité pour l’action climatique et environnementale Durham-Sud ; Julie Hevey, Citoyens au Courant (2015-2018) ; Carol Saucier, porte-parole du regroupement citoyen Solidarité Gaspésie (2018-2021) ; Chantal Levert, Réseau québécois des groupes écologistes RQGE ; Ulla Gunst, Stop Oléoduc île d’Orléans (2016-2017), Caravane la Gaspésie à cœur « Eau et hydrocarbures : le tour de la question » (2018) ; Geneviève Tremblay-Racette, Table ronde des organismes volontaires en éducation populaire de l’Outaouais (TROVEPO) ; Lilas Lamontagne, co-porte-parole Mouvement citoyen littoralement inacceptable (MCLI) Haute-Côte-Nord (2014 à 2020) ; Josée Barrette, Regroupement Vigilance Hydrocarbures Sutton (2014-2019) ; Paul Bibeau, Comité du regroupement vigilance hydrocarbure du Québec (Repentigny) 2014-2017 ; Rébecca Pétrin, directrice générale d’Eau Secours ; Carole Dupuis, porte-parole du Mouvement écocitoyen UNEplanète depuis 2018, coordonnatrice générale du Regroupement vigilance hydrocarbures Québec de 2015 à 2018, initiatrice de la campagne Vous ne passerez pas ! en 2017.
Ont aussi appuyé cette lettre (organisations) : Martin Legault, coordonnateur pour le MARE (Mouvement d’action régional en environnement) ; Danielle Demers, présidente, Les Amis de la Chicot de Saint-Cuthbert ; Claude Vaillancourt, président, Attac Québec ; André Bélanger, directeur général, Fondation Rivières ; Arlene Slocombe, Executive Director, Water Watchers ; Mélanie Busby, responsable de la Coalition large sur l’énergie, Front commun pour la transition énergétique ; Sepideh Anvar, Lâche RBC/Quit RBC ; Bertrand Guibord, président, Conseil central du Montréal métropolitain–CSN ; Karl Janelle, président, Coalition climat Montréal ; Exécutif de la section québécoise de la fondation Sierra Club Canada ; Michèle Lavoie, cofondatrice du Collectif Antigone ; Pierre Jasmin, secrétaire, Les artistes pour la paix ; Rachel Fahlman, présidente de Vent d’élus ; Anne-Céline Guyon, analyste climat-énergie chez Nature Québec, ancienne présidente de la fondation Coule pas chez nous ! et coordonnatrice des luttes contre Énergie Est et GNL Québec ; Yolande Henry, membre de Transition écologique La Pêche Coalition for a Green New Deal ; Gilles Labrosse, pour le comité de coordination action/mobilisation de Sauvons la sablière d’Arthabaska ; Jennifer Ricard Turcotte, Mères au front Rouyn-Noranda ; Jacob Pirro, porte-parole francophone de Dernière Génération Canada ; Nathalie Ainsley, pour Mères au front Montréal ; Maxime Laplante, Union paysanne ; Yvan Fleurant, Pour un choix éclairé dans Nicolet-Yamaska ; Andréanne Brazeau, analyste principale des politiques et porte-parole pour le Québec, Fondation David Suzuki ; Charles-Edouard Têtu, Analyste politique — Climat et énergie, Équiterre ; Sophie-Laurence H. Lauzon, codirectrice générale, Réseau des femmes en environnement ; Sylvie Clermont pour le Regroupement écocitoyen de Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac ; Adrian Burke, président de Nature Hudson, pour Nature Hudson ; Linda Robichaud pour Mères au front Vaudreuil-Soulanges ; Shelagh McNally pour Pincourt Vert ; Jérôme Leclerc, Association pour la santé publique du Québec.
Ont aussi appuyé cette lettre (citoyens) : Bruno Detuncq, professeur à la retraite, Polytechnique Montréal ; Jacques Lebleu, citoyen ; Henri-Charles Baudot, citoyen, membre de MEAC et d’Eau Secours ; Estelle Carde, citoyenne, membre de MEAC ; Frédérique Bertrand-Le Borgne, citoyenne, membre de MEAC ; Sylvie Clermont, citoyenne engagée, membre du MARE, de la Coalition Verte, du Fonds d’héritage pour l’environnement et du Réseau Demain le Québec ; Gabriel Cliche, citoyen, bénévole pour Coule pas chez nous Québec (2013-2016) ; Emmanuel Patola, citoyen ; Catherine Vallée, citoyenne engagée, membre du Mouvement d’action régional en environnement (MARE), de la Coalition Verte et du Réseau Demain le Québec ; Christophe Reutenauer, professeur de mathématiques, UQAM ; Lucien Beaupré, citoyen ; Jocelyne Alain, citoyenne ; Réal Vigneau, citoyen ; Françoise Cadorette, citoyenne ; Georges Karpat, citoyen, membre du Ralliement contre la pollution radioactive (RCPR) ; Jean-Philippe Waaub, professeur associé, à la retraite, Département de géographie, UQAM, membre du Collectif scientifique sur les enjeux énergétiques au Québec et du GEIGER, Institut des sciences de l’environnement UQAM ; Francis Waddell, La planète s’invite au parlement ; Louise Legault ; Hélène Crevier, citoyenne ; Jean-François Boisvert, citoyen ; Jacques Gelineau, environnementaliste et réalisateur des émissions de Maya découvre le Saint-Laurent ; Isabelle Catafard, membre Le vivant se défend (2025) et Mères au front (2022), Fondation Rivières, mémoire au BAPE contre GNL Québec (2020), Montréal ; Luc Falardeau, citoyen ; Monique Courchesne, citoyenne aînée ; Francine Salvas, membre du RVEQ depuis 2012 ; Joceline Sanschagrin, citoyenne ; François Prévost, citoyen ; Denise Campillo ; Marc St Cyr, citoyen, militant depuis 2012 ; Isabelle Nadeau, citoyenne, Stop Oléoduc Capitale-Nationale (2013-2018) et comité de coordination de la Coalition Fjord (2020-2021) ; Isabelle Gagné, citoyenne ; Nicole Lamarche, citoyenne ; Nicole Comtois, citoyenne ; Jacques Rousseau citoyen ; Jean-Paul St-Amand, citoyen. Lucien Jutras, citoyen ; Émilien Pelletier citoyen de Saint-Hyacinthe ; Marie-Claire Mayeres, citoyenne ; Annette Landry, citoyenne madelinienne, militante de MRG (Madelinots pour le Respect du Golfe) entre 2004 et 2013 ; Yanick Binet, professeur de philosophie, Collège Lionel-Groulx ; Marie Saint-Arnaud, comité de coordination du Collectif scientifique sur les enjeux énergétiques au Québec ; Sophie Sarrazin, enseignante de musique au primaire ; Pierre Benoit ; Jocelyne Lachapelle, citoyenne, écologiste ; Eloise Gauthier, Montréal ; Marielle Boisjoly, militante, Vigilance Lanoraie depuis 2012 ; Pierre-Luc Tremblay, militant écologiste et membre du comité de coordination de la Coalition Fjord (2019-2023) ; Camille-Amélie Koziej Lévesque, militante et co-porte-parole au sein de la Coalition Fjord lors de la lutte contre GNL Québec (2018-2021) ; Simon Barry, Montréal ; Stéphane Caron, Montréal ; Nata Porowska, Énergie alternative, îles de la Madeleine (2010-2017) ; Pascale Boucher-Mercier, enseignante au préscolaire, organisatrice d’activités de protection de l’environnement avec ses élèves, Mont-Laurier ; Ginette Guillemette, citoyenne ; Jean Morisset, citoyen de L’Islet, membre de Stop Oléoduc Montmagny-L’Islet (2013-2017) ; Marie-Josée Larocque, membre de Stop Oléoduc Montmagny-L’Islet (2013-2017) ; Marie Laberge, membre de Stop Oléoduc Montmagny-L’Islet (2013-2017) ; André Jolicœur, membre du Comité de Vigilance Val de Milt, Saint-Valérien-de-Milton ; Denis Dessaint, citoyen ; Martine Leclerc, membre du Comité de Vigilance, Saint-Valérien-de-Milton (2012-2019) ; Arnaud Theurillat-Cloutier, membre de Travailleuses et travailleurs pour la justice climatique (TJC) ; Jean-Claude Plourde ; Jean Guilbert, porte-parole, Non aux éoliennes en territoire agricole à Saint-Maurice ; Jacques Ouellet, Solidarité Gaspésie ; François Lépine, citoyen ; Suzanne Fortin, citoyenne ; Catherine Béliveau, artiste multidisciplinaire et militante ; Josée Desmeules, militante Mobilisation 6600 Parc Nature MHM ; Valeria Moro, citoyenne ; Yann Pezzini, citoyen, doctorant ; Yves Galipeau, citoyen, membre de Solidarité Gaspésie ; Mélanie J. Gervais, citoyenne ; Martin Couture, citoyen ; Joris Maillochon ; Jocelyn Fournier, Action Climat Outaouais (2016 à 2023) ; Sylvie Rousseau, comédienne, autrice et metteurs en scène de la comédie dramatique Notre Drame de par Ici, à l’affiche aux îles de la Madeleine (étés 2005 et 2006) ; Bernard Bonneau, maraîcher et membre de Citoyens au Courant (2013-2017) ; Jacinthe Brassard, membre du groupe citoyen Prendre Parole Vaudreuil-Dorion ; Yvon Couillard, citoyen, Montréal ; Michael Fleckenstein, citoyen ; Rachel Nadeau, citoyenne ; Anik Tremblay, citoyenne engagée, membre du Mouvement d’action régional en environnement (MARE) et de Mères au front ; Guylaine Thibodeau, citoyenne et membre du Regroupement écocitoyen de Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac ; Isabel Delarosbil, citoyenne et membre du Regroupement écocitoyen de Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac ; Claire Lapointe, citoyenne engagée, membre et résidante de la Maison des rebElles, groupe écoféministe ; Ginette Demers, Mères au front Montréal ; Rémi Pelletier, citoyen ; Claude Boileau, administrateur de « À Châteauguay, quelle ville voulons-nous ? », membre du Mouvement d’action régional en environnement (MARE), de Multitudes, de Vivre en Ville et d’autres groupes environnementaux et sociaux ; Claire Dufour, citoyenne engagée, photographe, militante ; Laurence Goulet, citoyenne et membre du Regroupement écocitoyen de Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac ; Lyne Lefebvre, membre Centr’ERE, mère au front Montréal ; Julia Lévy-Ndejuru, Mères au front Montréal ; Nathalie Beauregard, citoyenne ; Alexis Beauregard, citoyen ; Yves Mailhot, Comité de citoyens responsables de Bécancour ; Françoise Brunelle, Comité de citoyens responsables de Bécancour ; Laetitia Lioussanne, Sciences biologiques et Environnement ; Hélène Charpentier, citoyenne ; Isabelle Senécal, mère au front ; Léa Delambre, Centr’ERE ; François Doucet, citoyen ; Amandine Alessandra, citoyenne engagée ; Jerome Rigaud, citoyen ; Carmen Montour, citoyenne engagée pour le climat ; Eugene Massam, étudiant ; Raymond Trempe, citoyen.
Thanks to Johanne Dion for alerting me to this piece and impressive list of courageous concerned Quebecers openly signing on. If only Albertans had a smidge of this courage (most do not want their names mentioned publicly, for fear of the ghastly attacks and harassment by gov’t, polluters and it’s pollution protector abusive bully agencies like AER, CSIS, RCMP. We might have less contaminated drinking water, air, food, communities and politics, and far less damaging wildfire, if we had more courage and gave a damn beyond the next big truck, beer and steak, and orgasm.
Internet translation:
Pipelines in Quebec? The citizen movement says no to a step back!
Ladies and Gentlemen, parliamentarians from Quebec in Ottawa and Quebec, gentlemen, candidates for the chiefdom of the Liberal Party of Quebec, this is a message from the citizen movement which has failed the projects of fossil fuels that has been tried to impose in Quebec in recent decades: Suroît gas central, Port Méthanier Rabaska, Figors in the Madeleine, in the Gulf, Saint-Laurent, in the Saint-Laurent valley, in Gaspésie, Bas-Saint-Laurent and on the anticosti island, east energy oil pipeline and Cacouna oil port, Liquefaction GNL Quebec (Gazeduq/Energy Saguenay).
Over the years, we have tirelessly fought all attempts at fossil intrusion in Quebec. We have held public information sessions and cooking assemblies, published newsletters, organized citizen forums, lined our parts of signs, tailored our deputies, made signed 65,657 refusals of access to property, assailed our municipal councils and obtained the adoption of hundreds of declarations, resolutions and regulations, market, even and more, Disinformation, again and again, writes memories and books, participated in consultations, same container, shot and projected films, sung, drawn, gave training in citizen resistance, alerted the media and does so many other things.
Our families, friends, neighbors understood the challenges and, in the end, each time, we have won the fight of public opinion. Thus, despite the pugnacity with which the promoters and even the governments wanted to drive these projects into the throat of Quebecers, they were all withdrawn.
It is therefore with amazement that we have learned that some of you say “open” to the construction of oil pipelines or gas pipelines that would cross Quebec. The climatic emergency has not reduced since the abandonment of the projects that we have defeated. It is accentuated, and its first manifestations are already cold in the back. The collapse of biodiversity, nourished by the disruption of the climate, also accelerates at a terrifying pace. No doubt: you have to stop producing, distributing and burning fossil fuels. We will still fight tooth and nails for this purpose, if necessary, and we know that a whole new generation of activists will in turn jump into the arena to defend its right to a viable future.
Mr. Steven Guilbeault, lieutenant of the Liberal Party of Canada in Quebec, it is up to you to convince your leader, Prime Minister Mark Carney, and your colleagues in Ottawa not to give in to blackmail Alberta by ignoring the choices of Quebec. Nature can no longer suffer from strategic declines, you know. And workers in the petrogazier sector deserve better than jobs artificially maintained by the scientific denial.
Mr. Yves-François Blanchet, head of the Bloc Québécois, you are the only leader of a large federal party to have opposed a categorical non-categorical projects. We count on you to make this commitment an absolute priority and a condition of your support for the Carney government.
Mr. Alexandre Boulerice, deputy for the new Democratic Party in Quebec, we invite you to demand more rigor of your party: a pipeline which “does not damage the environment”, as your leader mentioned during the campaign, it does not exist.
Ladies and Gentlemen, deputies of the Coalition Avenir Québec at the National Assembly, who had promised to defend the interests of Quebec in Ottawa, how could you vote against the motion of the second opposition group asking the government to oppose any pipeline project in Quebec? The demonstration was made, unambiguously, that such projects would be harmful to climate, would compromise the health of rivers and affected ecosystems, would threaten the drinking water of millions of Quebecers, in the case of a pipeline, and would have tiny economic benefits for Quebec.
And you, deputies of the Quebec Liberal Party, who also rejected the motion on the pipelines, could you remind the candidates for the leadership of your party that Philippe Couillard, the last Liberal Prime Minister to date, broke our teeth on the social wall that we have erected between Quebec and the fossil projects it caressed with the Pétrogazier lobby? It is up to you to encourage Pablo Rodriguez, Charles Billion, Karl Blackburn and the other aspiring chefs to quickly give up on his traces in this cul-de-sac.
Ladies and Gentlemen Quebec parliamentarians and candidates for the PLQ chiefdom, you have better to do on the embers of Canadian petroeconomics, often for the benefit of foreign investors, but always at the expense of Quebec and the planet. The social and ecological transition calls us and calls you. Let us unite to make it.
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Je signe:
Claude Saint-Jarre
Nadia Alexan:
The pipelines and the common good are diametrically opposed!
Have our elected leaders completely lost sight of their sacred mission, which is to serve the public good and not commercial interests?
Using pipelines to increase the fossil fuel flow is suicidal. How can health officials approve such deadly projects, which will end life on earth, despite the fierce opposition of public opinion?
They were elected to serve citizens and not the interests of large companies! Have they lost the reason?
@race2extinct.bsky.social:
No illusion distorts human perception more than money. It’s not just a myth—it’s a story so powerful it overrides planetary limits. We can’t see ecological collapse because we’ve defined success by what’s destroying us
@foxfire42.bsky.social:
That’s exactly it.
Success in this society means having done the best (better than others) at all the things that are destroying the planet, and our ability to live on it. Not to mention most other life on the planet.
@race2extinct.bsky.social:
Exactly.
If there is one thing history teaches, it’s that Homo sapiens learns nothing from history.
Civilization doesn’t run on energy—it runs on ecosystems. Without pollinators, soil, clean water, and breathable air, kilowatts mean nothing. The delusion that energy can replace ecology is exactly why collapse is accelerating.
@izeknewt0n.bsky.social:
Lyle I like how you think. Once flocks of birds covered the skies for days & I weep what I shall never see and it ails me fierce when they think nature is assaulting us when they see a flock of a mere 100 or less. So it is true for the old growth forest whose richness days gone by escapes us now.
@race2extinct.bsky.social:
11B birds have disappeared in North America in the last 200 years. It’s an unspeakable tragedy.
At my place in Rosebud, which was bird heaven when I moved here in 1998, I now see few birds, and rarely see caterpillars or butterflies anymore, and moths are nearly non existant. Every year, I see less and less of them, and their silence gets louder. But, my land is regularly invaded by house cats whose owners are too arrogant and cruel to other species to keep their killers in the house.
@race2extinct.bsky.social:
I’m hearing that scenario more and more from people across the planet.
We treat resources like they’re infinite—until they’re gone. Passenger pigeons, old-growth forests, copper—we burn through abundance. A finite planet can’t feed infinite hunger.
@texasgardenbee.bsky.social:
Now, I suppose we’ll start employing extreme measures to get at whatever copper we can get our hands on. I see the permit process has been accelerated for a copper mine near Libby, Montana. Libby was contaminated by tremolite asbestos and is finally making progress on clean up. Here we go again.
@race2extinct.bsky.social:
Humans have never learned from history in our entire existence.
In my experience, many humans prefer stupidty, stupidity which brought us Donald Trump and Pierre Poilievre (currently ripping off tax payers living rent free with many servants at Stornoway) in positions of power, abusing many, and abusing earth, likely to the point of quick collapse.
Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
– Carl Sagan