I am surprised and a bit scandalized to hear the co-founder of Équiterre Steven Guilbeault, now Canadian Minister of the Environment, put on an environmental footing such unrelated activities as mining, the oil and gas, agriculture, transport and buildings. Yet this is what the minister replied to some twenty pro-environment organizations who denounced the presence of Enbridge and others in the Canadian delegation to COP 27.
I agree that we promote universal harmony in these difficult times, but we cannot with impunity treat in the same way activities directly linked to the well-being of humanity and other activities that produce profit to the detriment of living conditions of the people who depend on it.
“If we start censoring certain groups of companies, we stop everything. All sectors of activity in Canada emit greenhouse gases…” This is a ministerial reaction that should not go down in history.
If it wants to quickly achieve carbon neutrality, humanity cannot take the same look at, on the one hand, the agricultural sector from which we could draw food for all the inhabitants of our world, and, on the other hand, the mining and petroleum sector, whose activities produce a lot of harmful GHGs and whose positive effects on humanity have been seriously questioned for several years now.
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