By Canadian Press

Greens call for ban on foreign oil imports, using Alberta oil instead

May 27, 2019 | 1:50 AM

OTTAWA — Green party Leader Elizabeth May says saving the world from climate change requires Canada to get off oil before the middle of the century.

In the meantime, she wants Canada to stop burning foreign oil as soon as possible.

The Greens’ climate-change plan, just one component of the upcoming Green environment platform for the federal election, calls for Canada to invest in upgraders to make Alberta bitumen usable in eastern Canadian refineries.

Making Canada energy independent is also part of the Conservative party platform, but where Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer proposes it in a bid to expand oil production in Alberta, May’s plan is to do so only to displace foreign oil as Canada moves towards no oil at all.

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The Green climate plan also calls for Canada to cut its greenhouse-gas emissions more than twice as deeply by 2030, have emissions at zero by 2050 and ban sales of combustion-engine vehicles by 2030.

May says her climate plan is the only one that will “allow human civilization to survive.”

Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press