The New Brunswick Anti-Shale Gas Alliance has some hope after finding a lot of items it agrees with in the Higgs government throne speech.
Jim Emberger was pleased about the creation of a legislative officer responsible for science and climate change and the mention of intergenerational theft.
“(There’s) really no greater intergenerational theft than climate change. There are lawsuits all around the world with young people suing their governments because they think they are going to leave them a world that is not worth living in,” he says.
Emberger says another favourable note was moving to a green economy for jobs.
Shale gas was not mentioned by name in the speech.
But the government says it will responsibly develop natural resources while respecting communities and First Nations which pursue resource-based jobs and investment.
