ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS BATTLE THE BAY DU NORD OIL PROJECT IN COURT AND BEFORE THE NORWEGIAN PUBLIC

 



In May, several protesters gathered in front of the Equinor offices in Newfoundland and Labrador to voice their opposition to the Bay du Nord oil project's approval.

Even after the federal government approved the Bay du Nord offshore oil project in Newfoundland months ago, environmental organisations are still fighting it, going to court and the company's offices in Norway.

Because Equinor is a state-owned Norwegian corporation answerable to the residents of the country, opponents of the project expect that it will be more attentive to the growing climate concerns over the extraction of fossil fuels. Oil firm BP has a minority share in the project.

Environmental organisations are concentrating their efforts on that approaching milestone as Equinor has not yet made a final investment decision over moving further. They have petitioned the federal court for a reconsideration of the environmental approval of the project, led by the environmental law organisation Ecojustice.

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Energy N.L. participants are informed that Bay du Nord preparations are going "full speed" as the conference comes to an end.

According to Ian Miron, a staff attorney at Ecojustice, "Our federal government asserts that it knows climate science." Therefore, it should be clear that Canada cannot lead on climate change while approving projects like this one for fossil fuel infrastructure.

In comparison to comparable oil projects in Canada and elsewhere, Bay du Nord's operation will have a low carbon intensity, according to Equinor and the federal government.

They argue that it makes sense for the oil to originate from projects like Bay du Nord since there will still be a need for it even as the globe decarbonizes. A first for a Canadian oil and gas project, the project's requirement to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 is a sign that the government would demand similarly strict climate criteria for future environmental clearances.

However, these restrictions only apply to emissions from the operation of Bay du Nord, not from the burning of that oil in power plants or automobiles once it has been extracted and exported.


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