Their demands:
- Eliminating the oil and gas emissions cap
- Repealing or Overhauling Environmental Impact Assessment when it comes to natural ressources (mines, pipelines, fracking).
- Getting rid of clean electricity regulations
- Abandoning the electric vehicles mandate
- Lifting the oil tanker ban off the pacific coast
- Stop regulations preventing commercial free speech (“greenwashing”)
- Repeal any federal regulation against plastics
It’s always been a bit of a mind bender. Provinces with a massive industry extremely sensitive to actually being able to grow things in the ground who lobby for a separate industry of which the products actively threaten the former’s existence. Especially troubling when the former is renewable, and the latter is not.
I suppose it makes sense when the politicians are in the deep pockets of the giant oil corps rather than the smaller pockets of farmers, though farming is becoming more of a giant corp game too.