For decades, we’ve been raising the alarm about Canada’s polluting oil and gas industry. It now creates 28 per cent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions and that share is growing. That’s why the environmental movement has fought tar sands pipelines in every direction. 

Now we have a chance to put a lid on it for good. We’re meeting outside Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson’s office in North Vancouver at 12 p.m. on Thursday, May 25 to push back against oil and gas lobbyists for a stronger emissions cap. Can you join us?

Federal officials are expected to announce a declining cap on oil and gas emissions in June, and if they get it right, it could finally put this country on track to meeting its climate commitments. But fossil fuel lobbyists have been working overtime to prevent that from happening. 

Canada needs a strong cap on oil and gas emissions without any loopholes for Big Oil. All across the country, activists are gathering outside their member of parliament’s offices to call for a policy that will finally reverse growing pollution from the tar sands and prevent the construction of more liquefied natural gas terminals.

If the federal government gets this right it could mean we don’t have to fight new fossil fuel proposals. Let’s show Minister Wilkinson people want him to stand up to big polluters. 

Yes, I can make it!