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This Quebec election has huge consequences for the environment.
If nothing is done now, this is what will happen over the next term:
- The shores of the St. Lawrence will become home to two pipeline projects carrying 1.4 million barrels of oil per day. That is almost two-thirds the amount of oil that is currently produced in the tar sands, and more than four times the amount we consume in Quebec, most of it for export.
- Quebec will invest a quarter of a billion dollars in oil exploration, notably on Anticosti. The government is already considering drilling in the Gulf of the St. Lawrence.
- Railway convoys of oil will continue to go through Quebec without permission or notice, in spite of the Lac-Mégantic rail tragedy.
- Quebec will fall even further behind on protecting intact Boreal forests – the largest terrestial carbon reservoir in the world.
All of these projects will contribute to dangerous and irreversible global warming. All pose a risk to human health.
This situation can not continue. There are other options.
Millions of Quebecers and hundreds of Quebec companies are waiting for a strong signal from the government that it is ready to participate in the world's green economy, which is now worth $2000 billion.
It is time to assert our true environmental values in this campaign.
Join us. Ask party leaders and the candidates in your riding to promise to:
- oppose expansion in the tar sands
- say no to pipelines through Quebec that carry oil from Alberta at the risk of our air, water and health
- within the first 100 days of being sworn in, to adopt an ambitious and credible plan to reduce oil use by 30% and greenhouse gas emissions by 25% by 2020
- adopt a plan to protect at least half of Quebec's boreal region by 2035, and create two vast protected areas within the first 100 days of governing.
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