Risks from LNG Quebec project far outweigh benefits: environmental review board, March 24
We are often told the environmental harms of projects like the Énergie Saguenay Project are the price to pay for the countless jobs they create. This might be a convincing argument if it were true. In fact, most of the jobs created by these projects are short term, many lasting less than a year.
Take the Keystone XL pipeline, whose website claims it would create 60,000 new jobs. Surely this is worth a little extra carbon in the atmosphere? But the Department of State estimated in 2014 that within two years of completion, it would provide a measly 50 jobs, a poor return on a $7-billion investment, not to mention the increased emissions due to the increased capacity for transporting bitumen.
Please excuse me then if I find the claims of job creation that GNL Québec is making hard to believe. Fossil fuels are wrecking our once-stable climate, and these false claims serve only to try and trick people into thinking that protecting the environment must come at the cost of eliminating jobs.
Investment into green energy is not only environmentally preferable, but economically as well.
