Madam Speaker, the methane budget is spent. We have already released too much of it into the atmosphere and we must act now to stop these emissions, not just lower them. For all the reasons I have outlined, many jurisdictions around the world have either placed moratoriums on fracking or banned it outright, including France, Germany, Bulgaria, Scotland, the United Kingdom, Tunisia, the State of New York and the State of Vermont, and the list keeps growing.
The idea that exporting fracked gas to China will help them lower emissions has been exposed as an outright lie. When will the Canadian government study the research and stop supporting this fallacy? It is time to ban fracking, because the only thing we should be accelerating is our transition to renewable energy. Our children and our grandchildren deserve nothing less.