'We're headed back to court to ensure this megaproject won't proceed before the full scope of its impacts have been assessed,' says Ecojustice lawyer
STORY CONTINUES BELOW THESE SALTWIRE VIDEOSST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Indigenous and environmental groups are continuing their legal challenge of the federal government’s approval of the Bay du Nord offshore oil development project off the Newfoundland and Labrador coast.
Last June the Federal Court dismissed the challenge, brought forward by environmental group Ecojustice, the Sierra Club Canada Foundation and Quebec environmental non-profit Équiterre, saying they had not met the standard of proof to establish Ottawa hadn’t considered downstream greenhouse gas emissions when it approved the project.
In a news release Monday, Ecojustice indicated it had filed an appeal of the decision Sept. 15 on behalf of Sierra Club Canada Foundation and Mi’gmswe’l Tplu’taqnn Inc., which represents several Mi’kmaw communities in New Brunswick. “From record-breaking heat waves and wildfires to tornados and other extreme weather events, communities across the country have been feeling the impacts of climate change first-hand,” Ecojustice lawyer Ian Miron stated in the release. “Bay du Nord will lock Newfoundland, and Canada as a whole, into further dependence on fossil fuels at a time when the science demands we transition away from fossil fuels.
Equinor Canada and partner bp announced last spring the Bay du Nord project would be postponed for up to three years, describing a “strategic delay” to improve robustness of the project in the face of challenging market conditions, including significant development cost increases.
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