Tell the Canadian Government: Reject Alberta’s Pipeline Ploy and Phase Out Fossil Fuels
- by: David Suzuki Foundation
- recipient: PM Mark Carney
Canada faces a choice: Build new fossil fuel pipelines that deepen the climate crisis, damage ecosystems, endanger communities and enrich oil and gas billionaires, or build a truly resilient, people- and nature-centred future powered by renewables.
In November 2025, Prime Minister Mark Carney made a damaging deal with Alberta to fast-track a new diluted bitumen oil pipeline to B.C.'s coast while rolling back key environmental protections. This pipeline would lock Canada into deeper dependence on a declining, high-polluting industry and put North Pacific ecosystems and coastal First Nations at risk from increased tanker traffic and catastrophic oil spills.
There's still time to stop this pipeline ploy and choose a fossil-fuel free future. Alberta intends to submit its pipeline proposal to the federal government's Major Projects Office by July 1, 2026.
Act now! Message Carney and ask him to reject Alberta's pipeline ploy.
People throughout Canada are facing more frequent and intense climate disasters and are struggling to put food on the table during a cost-of-living-crisis. Meanwhile, politicians are pandering to wealthy fossil fuel companies and giving them tax breaks.
There are better ways to strengthen Canada — such as building out an east-west electricity grid powered by affordable renewable energy, which would lower household energy bills. Real nation-building projects will advance climate objectives, protect nature, uphold Indigenous rights and create long-term prosperity.
Together we can choose a better path.
Dear Prime Minister Mark Carney,You have said that climate action is a moral duty and an economic imperative. I agree. But actions speak louder than words. I call on you to reject Alberta's proposal for a new diluted bitumen pipeline to B.C.'s coast.
As Canada confronts economic and geopolitical instability, deepening our dependence on fossil fuels is not a solution; it's a liability. Affordable renewable energy — not fossil fuels — will be the backbone of thriving economies.
In the words of United Nations secretary general António Guterres, "Countries clinging to fossil fuels are not protecting their economies — they are sabotaging them, increasing costs, weakening competitiveness, becoming stuck with stranded assets, and missing out on the greatest economic opportunity of the 21st century."
Moreover, increasing fossil fuel production and exports — as proposed in your November 2025 memorandum of understanding with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith — is inconsistent with Canada's climate commitments and legal obligations. Fossil fuels are the primary cause of climate change. Canada must work with other countries to urgently reduce global demand for fossil fuels.
This requires pivoting decisively to renewable energy, not wasting time and resources on costly fossil fuel infrastructure projects that would lock in decades of avoidable emissions and put ecosystems at risk.
Coastal First Nations oppose a bitumen pipeline that would put tankers off B.C.'s north coast. The North Pacific coastal ecosystem is ecologically and culturally significant and a major economic driver in the region. The consequences of a catastrophic oil spill are unacceptable.
I stand with Coastal First Nations in calling on your government to uphold the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act and reject Alberta's pipeline proposal.
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