We can fight climate pollution
How? A cap on oil and gas industry pollution is Canada’s best shot at tackling rising emissions.
As the world gathers for the UN Climate Change Conference this year, on the heels of the worst wildfire season on record, the urgency to combat climate change has never been more pressing.
Right now, elected leaders are deciding the details, and will announce them in less than a month. This is a make-or-break moment for climate action in Canada.
Add your voice. Tell leaders you support a cap on pollution.
We can fight climate pollution
How? A cap on oil and gas industry pollution is Canada’s best shot at tackling rising emissions.
As the world gathers for the UN Climate Change Conference this year, on the heels of the worst wildfire season on record, the urgency to combat climate change has never been more pressing.
Right now, elected leaders are deciding the details, and will announce them in less than a month. This is a make-or-break moment for climate action in Canada.
Add your voice. Tell leaders you support a cap on pollution.
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Send a postcard to your Member of Parliament to tell them you support a strong cap on oil and gas industry pollution! Click a postcard design below to begin.
- Choose your card image and subtitle.
- Write your message. Option: Use the writing tips.
- Add your contact info, then submit!
Customize your message. A personal message has the most impact. We suggest this outline for your letter. Choose the elements that resonate with you, or write your own completely.
Who you are:
- I am a (Grandparent, student, Albertan, Mi’kmaq woman, new Canadian, electrician, scientist) living in (your city, town, province)
Why the Pollution Cap is Important to you:
“I support a strong cap on oil and gas industry pollution because…”
- The oil and gas industry is Canada’s largest and fastest-growing source of emissions. We must regulate it if we are to meet critical climate targets.
- Oil and gas corporations should do their fair share to reduce climate pollution.
- We cannot trust oil companies to cut their own emissions
- It’s Canada’s best shot at tackling rising emissions
- Despite record-breaking profits, the oil and gas industry keeps pushing governments to subsidize its pollution clean up.
- There are currently no limits to the amount of climate pollution Canada’s oil and gas industry can produce.
What a strong cap can do:
“A strong cap means…”
- Fairness. Industry should take on its fair share to cut climate pollution. For Canada to do its part, the oil and gas industry must cut carbon pollution by 60% from 2005 levels by 2030. At the very least, the cap should be on par with Canada’s whole-of-economy goal of 45% reductions by 2030.
- No delays. Oil and gas companies are pushing to delay the cap, but we don’t have time to waste. The pollution cap must set the oil & gas sector on track for Canada to meet its 2030 climate target.
- No offsets. Actually reduce emissions and not rely on offsets from other countries or sectors.
- No handouts. Exclude handouts or subsidies to the oil and gas industry.
- No exceptions. Cover all oil and gas operations in Canada, including pipelines, refineries and liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities.
What you want your MP to do:
- Please support an emissions cap with strong compliance mechanisms that result in real and rapid emissions reductions from the oil and gas sector. Please raise this as an important issue in caucus and in the house.
Thank them:
- Please put the interests of all people in Canada ahead of the profits of a few oil and gas corporations.
- Let’s do the right thing by accelerating the inevitable and necessary shift to our clean, renewable energy future.
- Thank you for your time and attention on this issue.
Customize your message. A personal message has the most impact. We suggest this outline for your letter. Choose the elements that resonate with you, or write your own completely.
Who you are:
- I am a (Grandparent, student, Albertan, Mi’kmaq woman, new Canadian, electrician, scientist) living in (your city, town, province)
Why the Pollution Cap is Important to you:
- “I support a strong cap on oil and gas industry pollution because…”
- The oil and gas industry is Canada’s largest and fastest-growing source of emissions. We must regulate it if we are to meet critical climate targets.
- Oil and gas corporations should do their fair share to reduce climate pollution.
- We cannot trust oil companies to cut their own emissions
- It’s Canada’s best shot at tackling rising emissions
- Despite record-breaking profits, the oil and gas industry keeps pushing governments to subsidize its pollution clean up.
- There are currently no limits to the amount of climate pollution Canada’s oil and gas industry can produce.
What a strong cap can do:
- “A strong cap means…”
- Fairness. Industry should take on its fair share to cut climate pollution. For Canada to do its part, the oil and gas industry must cut carbon pollution by 60% from 2005 levels by 2030. At the very least, the cap should be on par with Canada’s whole-of-economy goal of 45% reductions by 2030.
- No delays. Oil and gas companies are pushing to delay the cap, but we don’t have time to waste. The pollution cap must set the oil & gas sector on track for Canada to meet its 2030 climate target.
- No offsets. Actually reduce emissions and not rely on offsets from other countries or sectors.
- No handouts. Exclude handouts or subsidies to the oil and gas industry.
- No exceptions. Cover all oil and gas operations in Canada, including pipelines, refineries and liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities.
What you want your MP to do:
- Please support an emissions cap with strong compliance mechanisms that result in real and rapid emissions reductions from the oil and gas sector. Please raise this as an important issue in caucus and in the house.
Thank them:
- Please put the interests of all people in Canada ahead of the profits of a few oil and gas corporations.
- Let’s do the right thing by accelerating the inevitable and necessary shift to our clean, renewable energy future.
- Thank you for your time and attention on this issue.
Printable Postcards
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What is the Pollution Cap?
Oil and gas industry emissions are the biggest and fastest growing source of climate pollution in Canada. Canada can’t meet its climate commitments without an effective cap on oil and gas pollution, also known as an emissions cap.
A cap on oil and gas industry emissions will:
- Place a hard cap on emissions, meaning that oil and gas companies won’t ever be able to pollute above current levels again.
- Reduce emissions immediately, and further reduce emissions by 60% by 2030.
- Be cost effective, realistic and likely to succeed – it’s expensive and damaging to keep delaying action.
Climate change can sometimes feel too big to fix. But this solution WILL work. A cap on oil and gas pollution is Canada’s best shot at tackling rising emissions.
Oil and gas companies can’t be trusted to regulate themselves. While the oil and gas industry lobbies elected officials daily to block, delay and weaken climate regulation, poll after poll shows a strong majority of people in Canada support a cap on carbon pollution.
Right now, the Canadian government is deciding on an approach to cap and cut pollution from the oil and gas sector. It is a crucial moment where elected officials can act on their promises to address Canada’s biggest source of climate pollution.
Tell your elected official this is important to you. Send a message and encourage others to do the same. There’s no time to waste–the window of opportunity on this is right now.
Who We Are
This campaign is a team effort by a coalition of Canadian organizations concerned about the impact of the climate crisis, today and in the future.
