Environment minister says emissions cap on oil and gas expected by end of 2023
A cap on greenhouse gas emissions from Canada’s oil and gas sector will be ready by the end of next year, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said Monday.
“We will have draft regulations maybe by the spring, at the latest in the first half of the year,” Guilbeault said. “And then the goal is to have the complete regulations by before Christmas, which is you know, record level time to develop regulations.”The timeline will still be disappointing to many Canadian environment organizations, who prefaced their own journeys to the COP27 talks with the hope that Guilbeault would at least use the event to put a number on where the cap will start.
Aly Hyder Ali, the oil and gas program manager at Environmental Defence, said earlier this month that the Egypt meetings were Canada’s chance to prove to world leaders and Canadians “that they are committed” to following through on the cap by announcing the actual targets. Guilbeault, who sat on the environmental activist side of the table at COP meetings before he was elected as a member of Parliament in 2019, now finds himself accusing his former colleagues of being “disingenuous” by demanding he produce information on the cap now.
“Frankly, I think it’s a bit disingenuous to to be saying, ‘Well, you know, we want the cap now,” Guilbeault said. “They clearly know how it works. And we’re cutting in half the time it takes to develop regulations.”
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