e-1722 (Oil and gas)
- Keywords
- 8545-421-67-12 Government Response to petitions concerning oil and gas
- Oil and gas
- Trans Mountain pipeline
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the Government of Canada
- The Trudeau administration has announced it will spend $4.5 billion of public funds on acquiring the existing Trans Mountain pipeline from Kinder Morgan;
- This $4.5 billion is not inclusive of construction costs for the expansion, projected to increase the cost of the deal to over $11 billion;
- The pipeline was valued at $550 million by Kinder Morgan in 2007;
- The expansion still has to pass the National Energy Board's 157 conditions and over a dozen court challenges before it can be built;
- During the election, Trudeau promised to overhaul the Harper administration’s deeply flawed pipeline approval process, respect Indigenous rights, and end fossil fuel subsidies;
- A diluted bitumen spill would devastate local ecosystems and economies on the West Coast, or any area surrounding the 800 bodies of water its path crosses;
- There is no proven way to clean up a diluted bitumen spill in a marine environment;
- Shipping out unprocessed diluted bitumen to refineries in other countries ships out Canadian jobs; and
- The Trans Mountain expansion will: lock in oil-sands production growth that cannot be reconciled with Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction commitments, increase the risk of a diluted bitumen spill, violate the rights of Indigenous communities along the pipeline route, threaten Indigenous communities reliant on the marine environment for their livelihood and cultural practices.
- Open for signature
- May 31, 2018, at 4:22 p.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- September 28, 2018, at 4:22 p.m. (EDT)
- Presented to the House of Commons
-
Elizabeth May
(Saanich—Gulf Islands)
February 5, 2019 (Petition No. 421-03190) - Government response tabled
- March 22, 2019
Only validated signatures are counted towards the total number of signatures.
Province / Territory | Signatures |
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Alberta | 480 |
British Columbia | 8706 |
Manitoba | 299 |
New Brunswick | 248 |
Newfoundland and Labrador | 59 |
Northwest Territories | 24 |
Nova Scotia | 384 |
Nunavut | 4 |
Ontario | 3884 |
Prince Edward Island | 94 |
Quebec | 1120 |
Saskatchewan | 162 |
Yukon | 44 |