Exporting LNG Through Churchill Would Be A Climate Disaster

• Manitoba's Climate Action Team
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• Prime Minister Mark Carney and Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew are pushing to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Churchill by 2030. Story here.

Exporting LNG Through Churchill Would Be A Climate Disaster

Manitoba's Climate Action Team

An oil explosion, location unknown.
“People think about LNG ike propane that we all use in our backyards when we’re barbecuing.
So, the idea of a leak or spill and the impacts on the environment,
it’s not really the same level of concern.” Premier Wab Kinew

Premier Wab Kinew and his government hope to ship liquefied natural gas (LNG) out of the Port of Churchill by 2030. This story explains why that's a bad idea.

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Is Manitoba on the Right Course With its Churchill Plans?

 Manitoba's Climate Action Team

The grain terminal at Churchill. A PinP photo.

If Manitoba builds an LNG export terminal, most of the emissions from extracting, shipping, and burning fossil gas would not show up in it’s greenhouse gas emissions inventory. But the province would be directly complicit in facilitating the increased production, transportation and consumption of large volumes of fossil gas, further escalating global climate risks of catastrophic drought, wildfires, and flooding. Story here.

Exporting LNG through the Port of Churchill, Manitoba.

Manitoba's Climate Action Team

If Manitoba builds an LNG export terminal, most of the emissions from extracting, shipping, and burning fossil gas would not show up in it’s greenhouse gas emissions inventory. But the province would be directly complicit in facilitating the increased production, transportation and consumption of large volumes of fossil gas, further escalating global climate risks of catastrophic drought, wildfires, and flooding. Story here.

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CLIMATE DENIAL OR HOLOCAUST DENIAL. WHICH IS WORSE?

by Larry Powell

The fire that forced the evacuation of Flin Flon, Manitoba last year. The Thunderhill Lake Complex Fire. Photo by US government

According to the Climate Risk Index, more than 832,000 people have perished worldwide from extreme weather events since 1995. With the war against climate change now lost, that toll will surely do nothing but escalate down the road, especially with an El Nino-from-Hell loose in the world!

In Canada, it's illegal under the Criminal Code - on pain of imprisonment (and rightly so), to deny the holocaust - when millions lost their lives in the Second World War. Yet those who deny climate change - every bit as real as the holocaust (and I include those who say they believe and understand it, but act otherwise, like Mark Carney) are being rewarded with top posts in government the world over, (perhaps nowhere more painfully evident than here in North America) and are actually busily engaging in behaviour that makes it worse. 

Perhaps it's time to treat climate-deniers in a manner similar to those who deny the holocaust!

After all, amid all this uncertainty over climate impacts, who knows which death toll will be greater in the longer term?

What do you think?

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      The Thunderhill Lake Complex fire near the town of Flin Flon, Manitoba
last year.The town was evacuated & several
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