Stop blocking a safe future for our kids

Dear Premier Danielle Smith,

Our children and grandchildren deserve to grow up without the threat of increasingly destructive wildfires, droughts and heat waves hanging over their heads, without fear of what the future will bring.

But that won’t happen if you continue to recklessly put the interests of oil and gas companies first. Here are just a few examples:

- “Forgiving” hundreds of millions in payments owed by multi-billion dollar oil corporations while municipalities bear the brunt of massive deficits, and Albertans face the real world cost of incomplete infrastructure and essential services and are left to foot the massive bill of dirty oil wells [1,2]
- Spending millions from our public purse on a misinformation campaign to block federal policy that would actually unlock funding for Alberta and make life more affordable for Albertans [3,4]
- Blocking renewable energy projects worth $33 billion, affecting 24,000 jobs [5]
- Blocking a policy to limit the pollution from the oil sector, despite massive record breaking wildfires brought on by fossil fuel emissions [6]

The actions you take to block policy and solutions that are designed to pave the way toward a resilient and healthy environment will be a burden unfairly borne by our kids and their kids. As climate change worsens, creating lasting negative impacts to the air we breathe and the water we drink — we cannot wait to act. Later is too late.

We are parents who care deeply about leaving behind a safe and livable world for our kids. We urge you to stop blocking the policies designed to get us there, in this limited window of time we have left.