Climate Action Team Manitoba

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Climate Action Team Manitoba (CAT) is a coalition of organizations working on advancing climate action and affordability in Manitoba (Treaty 1-5 and homeland of the Métis nation).

A screenshot of the text of the letter published by the Free Press underneath a blue bar that says "opinion." The text: Premier backing status quo Re: Premier defends energy projects (July 11) Premier Wab Kinew has once again gone to bat for the fossil fuel status quo. After backing Manitoba Hydro’s proposal for a new thermal power plant back in April (despite the government’s own commitment to clean electricity), Kinew is now doubling down on supporting potential oil or gas exports from Hudson Bay. In comments this week, Kinew invoked the tired trope that oil is needed for the firetrucks, chainsaws, and flights being used to fight the province’s catastrophic fires that fossil fuels are causing. It’s unclear where the premier is getting his information on this subject from — but it’s shockingly out of date. Society-wide electrification and rapid buildouts of solar and wind power alongside battery storage is fully possible from a technical perspective. Wind and solar are now among the cheapest sources of electricity, and the global transition is already well underway. Just look at China, which the Financial Times recently described as the world’s first “electrostate” due its sky-rocketing renewables deployment, installing an average of 100 solar panels per second. Manitoba is well positioned to follow such an example, if its leadership can abandon its obsolete and dangerous attachment to fossil fuels. James Wilt
Top part of title page of brief. Title is "Why Direct Air Capture Isn't a Climate Solution for Manitoba." The photo behind it is of a DAC unit, which is mostly a lot of fans. The Climate Action Team logo is on the top right. Image credit: Climeworks.
A bar chart showing Manitoba's leading emissions by subsector. The ranked order is animal production; passenger SUVs, trucks, cars; crop production; freight trucks and rail; and commercial and gov't buildings
A letter to the editor published by the Winnipeg Free Press titled "Make use of green solutions" by Robin Attas, which responded to the op-ed published on Monday co-authored by CAT director Laura Cameron. The text of the letter is: "Thank you to Scott Durling, Laura Cameron, and Chris Morrow for their well-reasoned call for a provincial climate action plan. I find it disgusting that Manitoba’s premier and other provincial and federal leaders continue to put pipelines and other fossil fuel initiatives on the table as viable ways to move Canada forwards. I don’t want to live in a world where the “economic horse pulls the social cart” through smoke, fire, drought, mass extinction, water pollution and more. There are clean, green solutions to the climate and economic problems we face that will build a better world for present and future generations. Let’s use them."