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House Hansard - 82

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
June 6, 2022 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 82 - Jun/6/22
Ms. Monique Pauzé (Repentigny, BQ)
  • Jun/6/22 2:39:53 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we now know that the 300 million barrels of oil that the minister said would be extracted from Bay du Nord was an incorrect number. That was the number given to calm the waters, but the developers never planned to stop at 300 million barrels. They are now talking about increasing that number to at least 500 million. What is worse, the environmental assessment used by the Minister of the Environment did not account for the quantity of oil that the project is meant to produce. Did the minister know that Bay du Nord would produce much more than the 300 million barrels that were announced?
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Context: House Hansard - 82 - Jun/6/22
Hon. Steven Guilbeault (Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Lib.)
  • Jun/6/22 2:40:30 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for her question and for her advocacy on this important issue. The Bay du Nord project was subject to an independent environmental assessment by experts over the course of more than four years, and these experts gave it a favourable recommendation. There are 137 conditions on this project. For the first time in history, a project will have to be net-zero by 2050. The project will also be required to come under the greenhouse gas emissions target that we will set. The project will have to be net-zero by 2050, regardless of whether it produces 300 million or 500 million barrels of oil.
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