The Executive Director of the Conservation Council of New Brunswick is saying there’s absolutely a lack of public trust in how big energy projects are approved. This following federal minister Catherine McKenna’s statement that the government has to rebuild that trust.
Lois Corbett tells us appointing a whole bunch of former oil industry executives to the National Energy Board did absolutely nothing from a trust perspective, saying we should be appointing scientists who understand the implications of climate change and how bitumen reacts with cold salt water, “people with expertise like that, not old, milionaire executives from the patch,” she says.
We asked if if it’s possible that the trust can be rebuilt with her rpelying that if it’s not, few projects have the opportunity to go ahead.
Corbett says if climate change is something the federal and provincial governments plan to tackle then we have to get serious about it.
