The champions of climate justice, folks. Couldn't even wait for the ink to dry on the IPCC report before giving this the go-ahead.
From the sounds of it, this is a political calculation to assuage the one provincial Liberal government and a historically broke part of the country, despite opposition in cabinet. Once again, Libs demonstrate that they'd love to save the planet if not for those pesky politics. Absolutely fucked.
The touted reasoning is that this is an economic lifeline to Newfoundland. I take the position that maybe we should be prioritizing retraining workers and supporting communities that are affected by decarbonization, rather than tying another anchor around the neck of the working class Newfies tethered to extraction multinationals that have shown them time and again they'll be the first to get dumped on as soon as oil is marginally less profitable. And, hot take, maybe I'm not happy about sealing our climate coffin for the sake of a few welders who don't want to be retrained.