Assessment: Bay du Nord Development Project will put Canada at serious risk of civil and possibly criminal litigation

In light of the most recent report from the IPCC -- which demonstrates that climate breakdown is happening faster than expected and that the window to take action is rapidly closing -- the government of Canada has no choice but to immediately stop this project.  Any decision to move forward in light of these findings -- which clearly demonstrate the economic, social and health risks that climate change poses to humanity -- would make any decision-makers that support this project to move forward subject to civil and perhaps criminal litigation.  I've attached the IPCC's summary for policy-makers, which I strongly recommend decision-makers review in detail..

To be specific, the economic benefits that this project to Newfoundlanders and Canadians will be vastly overshadowed by the economic, social and health costs that will be incurred due to increased climate disasters.  Canadians, like all citizens of the world, will be forced to pay the steep economic price of adaptation and recovery while oil giants continue to profit.  We very recently witnessed this with the flooding in BC and on the East Coast this past November (2021), which have been studied by event attribution scientists and shown to be directly linked to the climate crisis. The idea that we would increase our country's oil production when our top scientists have indicated that the world needs to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions as quickly as possible would appear, by any reasonable measure, to be criminal.

I look forward to receiving word that this project has been cancelled.  I would strongly recommend that Canada instead invest the allocated funding into a Just Transition and into developing green energy solutions (wind, solar and hydrothermal), to show that it is truly committed to stopping the climate crisis.