Deny Approval of Suncor Energy's Tilt Cove Exploratory Drilling Project

The Canadian Impact Assessment Agency is respnsible for assessing the environmental, economic social and health impacts of potential projects.

Suncor's proposed project will hinder the Federal Government's ability to meet it's Climate Change committments as a signatory to the Paris Agreement.  In this agreement, Canada has committed to reducing its GHG emissions to 40-45% of its 2005 emissions.  This proposed project will increase the amount of GHGs emitted, for the life of the exploratory project, and far into the future if exploited.  At the present time the Global Carbon Budget is less than 300GT, if we are to have a 50% chance of maintaining the 1.5 degrees Celsius of Global Average Temperature increase over pre-industrial times. The Federal Government cannot approve new oil and gas projects if we are to have any hope of protecting the health of present and future Canadian generations.

You have a responsibility to protect the environment, and exposing the marine biota, fish, whales and seabirds, to Vertical Seismec Profiling, the effluent from Riserless Drilling; and risks of spills, leaks and explosions is too high a price to pay.

The oil and gas sector in Canada has contributed to the climate disasters, such as wildfires, flooding, droughts, extreme weather events and heatwaves across Canada.  The economic and health burden that Canadians have to bear is extremely high, due to the oil sector emissions. If the Federal Government is to protect it's citizens from the increasing dangers of climate change, then it must not approve the project for new oil production.