Thank Oil & Gas CEOs for Tariffs, We Need an Emissions Cap Now

The Environment in Canada Podcast Episode 42 on why the emissions cap will NOT hurt Canada’s competitiveness and how oil and gas corporations might likely be exempt from potential tariffs imposed on Canada by a new U.S. Administration – an Administration backed by oil and gas CEOs…

Thanks to the oil and gas CEOs behind the coming U.S. Administration tariffs might be coming soon to an Canadian economic sector near you, but likely oil and gas itself will be exempt from tariffs (no surprise there). Meanwhile an emissions cap on oil and gas corporations could save thousands of Canadian lives through air pollution reductions alone and the cap will NOT hurt Canada’s oil and gas competitiveness.

We get into that and ask why climate policy has become Canadian media’s favourite scapegoat for economic fears.

Get facts on the emissions cap here.

Did you know that of every additional dollar of inflation over two years in Canada, 25 cents of that has gone to oil and gas and mining extraction profits? Or that Oil and gas corporations, while only 5% of Canada’s economy, are Canada’s most polluting sector causing around 30% of national emissions. Find out more.

Get facts on the links between oil and gas emissions, wildfires and floods in Canada, and big oil and gas’s manipulation of the truth here.

Listen to our previous episode on why the emissions cap will NOT hurt our economy here.

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