Open Letter: Reconsider the Trans Mountain Pipeline

UPDATE: On February 18th, the cost of Trans Mountain was announced to have risen to more than $21 billion. The Government of Canada responded to this by ending public funding of the project. Now is the time to stop construction, reconsider and cancel this pipeline.

Please add your name to this open letter calling on Justin Trudeau and his new cabinet to formally pause construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline and conduct a comprehensive review of the project.

In the past year, the Trans Mountain pipeline has been subjected to extreme heat, wildfires, flooding and, most recently, had sections of construction buried under landslides. All of this is being driven by a climate crisis that, if we build this pipeline, Canada can’t do our part to tackle.

Whatever math Justin Trudeau and his cabinet did when they first approved this pipeline, it isn’t holding up. We need a formal, federal review and reconsideration of the pipeline before we pump billions more public dollars into it and put communities and the climate further at risk. That’s why we're asking people across Canada to sign and share this open letter. Add your name now.

Dear Prime Minister Trudeau and Cabinet,

In the past year, the Trans Mountain pipeline has been subjected to extreme heat, wildfires, flooding and, most recently, had sections of construction buried under landslides. All of this is being driven by a climate crisis that, if we build this pipeline, Canada can’t do our part to tackle. That’s why, I’m urging you to formally review and reconsider this project.

The cost of the project has nearly doubled from $12.6 billion to $21.4 billion, with the federal government announcing they would cease any further funding of the pipeline. This is a step in the right direction, but now is the moment to cancel this project once and for all and put all of our energy and political will into a just transition that leaves fossil fuels in the ground and supports people, communities and workers.

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the International Energy Agency and the Canada Energy Regulator, Trans Mountain is incompatible with meeting a 1.5ºC climate target. That is why we must stop construction and conduct a formal federal review of the project. Today we have updated climate science, new forecasts for oil demand and are experiencing cascading climate impacts. It’s time to accept that and do the only rational thing when presented with this kind of new information. Review and reconsider the Trans Mountain pipeline now.

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Open Letter: Reconsider the Trans Mountain Pipeline

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