Media release: It’s time for BP Canada to go, Offshore Alliance – Nova Scotia Advocate
to this week’s news that the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board
(CNSOPB) has approved an extension to BP Canada’s license to drill
offshore.
“Fifty-four per cent of Nova Scotians don’t want BP
here at all,” said Robin Tress, Climate Justice Campaigner with the
Council of Canadians, citing polling conducted by Corporate Research
Associates in October 2018. The Government of Nova Scotia has formally
recognized that we are in a climate crisis, and yet they continue to
enable and promote offshore oil and gas exploration. “These actions are
totally incongruent,” said Tress. “We know that the climate crisis is
real – forest fires are ravaging Australia currently and have destroyed
forests in Canada. By approving this extension and promoting fossil fuel
extraction, Nova Scotia is adding fuel to the fire.”