On Monday representatives of environmental group Stand.earth announced they had filed a motion with the NEB to “expand its scope of review to include all upstream and downstream climate impacts for the project,” according to a news release posted on the organization’s website.
At a news conference in Vancouver Monday, Kirsten Zickfeld, a climate scientist at Simon Fraser University and a lead author of the International Panel of Climate Change’s (IPCC) recent report on limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees centigrade, said the science “shows very clearly that new fossil fuel infrastructure—such as the trans Mountain expansion—is not consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 degrees and avoiding the worst impacts of climate change.” #bcpoli
