Help Green the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline!

Please join Sierra Club Canada in calling for the National Energy Board and the Federal government to fully implement all of the Joint Review Panel’s recommendations on the Mackenzie Gas Project.

Please note that letters are much more effective if they come in your own words. We have provided a draft for your use, but please feel free to edit! For more details on the Mackenzie Gas Project and the Joint Review Panel’s recommendations see our backgrounder >>>

Subject:

Your Letter:

I am writing to you today to encourage the National Energy Board and the Government of Canada to fully implement all of the recommendations directed to the NEB and the federal government identified by the Joint Review Panel for the Mackenzie Gas Project. Roughly half of the 176 recommendations also require action by the federal government.  As you know, the Panel states: "If the Project were permitted to proceed without full implementation of the Panel's recommendations, its contribution to sustainability would be negative."

Our key recommendations include:
· National Energy Board require final design plans that incorporate further analysis of the impacts of climate change on permafrost and terrain stability over the design life of the Project and post-abandonment, prior to construction;

· National Energy Board require greenhouse gas emission targets for the MGP based on a design philosophy of rigorous conservation and efficiency, extensive use of best available technology, use of renewable energy technologies, best management practices, training and motivation of personnel, and a commitment to continuous improvement;

· Government of Canada require that the benefits of natural gas as a transitional fuel to a sustainable low-carbon economy be optimized and that natural gas be preferentially used to replace and not augment the use of carbon-intensive and polluting fuels such as coal and tar sands oil;
·    Government of Canada develop and implement, as soon as possible, legislation and regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Canada to meet or exceed existing national targets in the Climate Change Plan for Canada;

I understand that Imperial Oil, Exxon Mobil and other proponents continue to pressure the federal government to provide billions of dollars in subsidies for the Mackenzie Gas Project.  I urge you to strongly reject these pressures.  Big oil in Canada does not need any more federal handouts!

I urge you to declare your support for all of the Panel’s recommendations TODAY !

Signed,

Jim Prentice

Environment Minister

Gaétan Caron

Chairman/CEO of the National Energy Board

Help Green the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline!

Jim Prentice

Gaétan Caron

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