{"id":52799,"date":"2022-04-06T17:16:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T21:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/?p=52799"},"modified":"2022-04-06T17:16:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T21:16:13","slug":"federal-government-approves-controversial-bay-du-nord-oil-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/press-release\/52799\/federal-government-approves-controversial-bay-du-nord-oil-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal government approves controversial Bay du Nord oil project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong> &#8211; In reaction to the Federal government approval of the controversial Bay du Nord oil project, <strong>Keith Stewart, Senior Energy Strategist at Greenpeace Canada said<\/strong>:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cJust two days ago, the UN Secretary General <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/press\/en\/2022\/sgsm21228.doc.htm\">said<\/a> that investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure is \u2018immoral and economic madness.\u2019 The only truly sane option is to phase out fossil fuels as quickly as possible while supporting communities, regions and workers through the transition. Today\u2019s decision represents a triumph of the kind of politics that will only deepen the climate crisis and global addiction to planet-wrecking fossil fuels.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>For more information, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Marie-Christine Fiset, Head of media, Greenpeace Canada<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:marie-christine.fiset@greenpeace.org\">marie-christine.fiset@greenpeace.org<\/a>; +1 514 972-6316<\/p>\n\n<p>Keith Stewart, Senior Energy Strategist, Greenpeace Canada<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:keith.stewart@greenpeace.org\">keith.stewart@greenpeace.org<\/a>, +1 416 659-0294<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In reaction to the Federal government approval of the controversial Bay du Nord oil project, Keith Stewart, Senior Energy Strategist at Greenpeace Canada said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":51056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"not set","p4_local_project":"not set","p4_basket_name":"not set","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,32],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-52799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate","tag-climate","tag-oil","p4-page-type-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52800,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52799\/revisions\/52800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52799"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=52799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}