According to the Prime Minister: We’ll cap oil and gas sector emissions today and ensure they decrease tomorrow at a pace and scale needed to reach net-zero by 2050. [...] That commitment became an election promise, and then a mandate to the ministers of environment and natural resources to “cap oil and gas sector emissions at current levels and ensure that the sector makes an ambitious and achievable contribution to meeting the country’s 2030 climate goals.” Given the sector’s steadily-rising emis- sions and the fact that they comprise 26% of Canada’s overall emiss. [...] FICTION “An oil and gas emissions cap would unfairly target the oil and gas sector.” FACT While the provinces own their natural resources, the federal government has considerable jurisdiction to reduce pollution, including oil and gas emissions. [...] FICTION “An oil and gas emissions cap is an excuse for the federal government to control the industry.” FACT The oil and gas sector emits more than a quarter of our national emissions, a number that keeps rising as we urgently need it to fall. [...] FICTION “The oil and gas sector cannot afford an emissions cap on top of other regulatory requirements and the carbon tax.” FACT Oil and gas industry leaders promised in 1995 to work to reduce their emissions.
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