{"id":175522676,"date":"2026-07-03T18:48:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T18:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/350.org\/canada\/?p=175522676"},"modified":"2026-07-03T18:48:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T18:48:35","slug":"west-coast-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/350.org\/canada\/west-coast-pipeline\/he","title":{"rendered":"Carney wants to gamble away our future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One week after <a href=\"https:\/\/350.org\/mou\">40+ communities mobilized<\/a> to call on the federal government to make a deal with the people, the Prime Minister made a clear choice.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He decided to double down on protecting Big Oil&#8217;s profits instead of prioritizing our communities, our climate, and our future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let&#8217;s break down what happened over the last 24 hours:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Prime Minister Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith teamed up to unveil their plans for their West Coast Pipeline. They proposed dragging the <a href=\"https:\/\/environmentaldefence.ca\/2026\/07\/03\/statement-alberta-pipeline-proposal-will-be-a-failure\/\">one-million-barrel-a-day tar sands<\/a> pipeline from Alberta all the way to the Delta port right outside of Vancouver.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">They confirmed the pipeline would be another publicly-owned project, with an extremely unclear private-sector partnership. In other words, we can get ready to expect <a href=\"https:\/\/environmentaldefence.ca\/2026\/07\/03\/statement-alberta-pipeline-proposal-will-be-a-failure\/\">$35-100 billion<\/a> of our tax payer dollars wasted on building this dangerous pipe dream.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Earlier that same day, Carney went to BC, striking a New Cooperative Prosperity partnership with BC Premier Eby and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wildernesscommittee.org\/news\/wilderness-committee-slams-new-federal-bc-deal-pipeline-megaprojects\">pledging<\/a> to gut environmental protections to accelerate the expansion of LNG facilities.<sup>4<\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Canada is headed in a dangerous direction. Expanding tar sands and the fracked-gas industry is like pouring fuel on the flames of the climate emergency.\u00a0<\/strong>Let&#8217;s make sure our Members of Parliament know that they need to stand up to oppose this agenda. <a href=\"https:\/\/act.350.org\/go\/567292?t=3&amp;ak_proof=1&amp;akid=544202%2E3783645%2EANTvys\">Call on your MP to sign the People&#8217;s MOU and say no to new pipelines.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>There&#8217;s power in raising our voices together.\u00a0<\/strong>The People&#8217;s MOU was delivered to 40+ MPs across the country last week and, since then, thousands of others have e-mailed it to their Members of Parliament. We know that many Liberal MPs also have their doubts about Prime Minister Carney backsliding on climate. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s so important to ensure as many of them as possible are confronted by their constituents and pushed to use their leverage in this fragile majority government to champion a different direction.<\/p>\n<p>This week, heatwaves gripped communities across the country as we marked the 5 year anniversary of the 2021 Heat Dome where 619 people died from extreme heat.\u00a0And yet, Prime Minister Carney kicked off the week with a special video speaking directly to Canadians and sharing that climate action isn&#8217;t &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bySyMcg-p_4\">sustainable in the long run<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>But you and I both know, what&#8217;s truly unsustainable is expanding fossil fuels and cooking our planet. And to top it all off, the world is rapidly transitioning towards affordable, renewable energy, meaning that building a new oil pipeline locks us into a volatile, dead-end economy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/act.350.org\/go\/567292?t=4&amp;ak_proof=1&amp;akid=544202%2E3783645%2EANTvys\">It&#8217;s time to stop fuelling climate destruction and funding our future. Tell your MP to back this vision.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The good news is that the odds are in our favour. Even pipeline companies aren&#8217;t ready to fully back the project because they know it&#8217;s a bad idea.<\/p>\n<p>We also know that Indigenous-led resistance and people power can bring dangerous proposals like this to a halt. We did it before and we can do it again.<\/p>\n<p>Blog by Atiya Jaffar, 350 Canada Country Manager<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s announcement made it clear the Carney&#8217;s protecting Big Oil&#8217;s profits instead of our future. <\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: Albert Woo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10012029,"featured_media":175522677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175522676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v27.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Carney wants to gamble away our future - 350 Canada<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/350.org\/canada\/west-coast-pipeline\/he\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Carney wants to gamble away our future\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yesterday&#039;s announcement made it clear the Carney&#039;s protecting Big Oil&#039;s profits instead of our future.   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