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What is Mackenzie WILD?
Deh Cho, the Mackenzie River, is Canada’s wildest big river flowing through globally important forests and tundra teeming with caribou, moose, geese, wolves, and bears. Indigenous People have conserved and stewarded the lands, waters and wildlife of the Mackenzie Valley from time immemorial.
Sierra Club Canada believes that the proposed $16 billion Mackenzie Gas Project brings significant sustainability challenges to the North, for Canada and the planet, harming ecosystems and wildlife and disrupting communities, while creating few permanent jobs in the Northwest Territories.
The Mackenzie WILD program says that oil and gas industrialization is not the only option for the North.
Mackenzie WILD envisages a future for the Mackenzie Valley in which biodiversity and ecological integrity are maintained, sustainable and healthy communities are developed, rights of Indigenous People are respected, and Canada keeps its commitments to protect our climate by upholding our legal responsibilities under the the Kyoto Protocol.
Our Demands:
* Support Canada’s commitments to protect the global atmosphere
* Protect the biodiversity and ecology of the Mackenzie Valley
* Ensure sustainable, healthy Mackenzie Valley communities
* Respect the rights of Mackenzie Valley Indigenous People
Available evidence is such that none of these objectives will be met if the Mackenzie Gas Project proceeds as proposed, on account of the environmental and social damage that the MGP itself will cause, not to mention the environmental damage caused by oil and gas industrialization of the Mackenzie watershed that the MGP would trigger.
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Backgrounder: Mackenzie Valley Recommendations
2010-02-18
Background Contents
2. Recommendations
3. Cumulative Effects
4. Wildlife and Protected Areas
5. What’s next?
6. Acknowledgements
Sierra Club Canada is pleased that so many of our interventions in the hearings for the Mackenzie Gas Project are reflected in the 176 recommendations of the Joint Review Panel for this $16 billion project. Most notably, the Panel has recommended that natural gas from Northern Canada not be used to fuel further tar sands development in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
The Joint Review Panel for the Mackenzie Gas Project (MGP) finally released its report and recommendations on December 30, 2009. The Panel report concludes that the MGP could be sustainable if all 176 of its recommendations are implemented. The Panel report states: "If the Project were permitted to proceed without full implementation of the Panel's recommendations, its contribution to sustainability would be negative."... Read more »
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Map of Mackenzie Valley Gas Project
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SCC Comments on JRP Recommendations within the NEB’s mandate
2010-02-11
Please find in the attached document comments by the Sierra Club of Canada (SCC) on the Joint Review Panel (JRP) recommendations within the National Energy Board’s (NEB’s) mandate.
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MEDIA BACKGROUNDER: Sierra Club Canada submits to National Energy Board its official response to the Joint Review Panel report on the Mackenzie Gas Project
WHAT: February 11th marks the deadline for interveners in the Mackenzie Gas Project National Energy Board hearings to respond to the recommendations made by the Joint Review Panel report released December 30th, 2009.
OVERALL COMMENTS ON JRP REPORT:
With 176 recommendations pointing to varying levels of readiness by both the proponent and the government bodies overseeing and preparing for development, it is highly questionable that the Mackenzie Gas Project (MGP) will contribute to sustainability or avoid significant adverse impacts. Sierra Club Canada (SCC) is concerned that without full implementation of the Joint Review Panel’s (JRP’s) recommendations, as the JRP itself notes numerous times, that significant adverse impacts will result to ecosystems and communities upstream, and that the project will help continue an unsustainable pattern of fossil fuel use downstream.... Read more »
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Sierra Club Canada Calls on National Energy Board to Reject Imperial’s Requests to Water Down Panel Recommendations on Mackenzie Gas Project
OTTAWA--Following the submission made by Mackenzie Gas Project proponents last week, Sierra Club Canada is submitting its official response to the National Energy Board and to Governments today calling for full implementation of all 176 recommendations made by the Joint Review Panel Report. Sierra Club Canada, through its submissions today, is recommending to the National Energy Board not to accept the proponents call to reject the Joint Review Panel's recommendations to control the scale and pace of induced development, and to reject the proponents call to allow the project to go ahead whether or not the Joint Review Panel’s recommendations to government are implemented.
"Sierra Club Canada participated in the environmental hearings in good faith," said John Bennett, Executive Director of Sierra Club Canada. "All parties including Imperial Oil and the federal government should respect the outcome, accept and implement all the recommendations or cancel the project."... Read more »
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