Fertilize emissions plan has serious implications

By Lethbridge Herald on August 25, 2022.

Editor:

The federal government launched consultations with Canadians asking about its climate change policies aimed at significantly reducing fertilizer emissions. Have you heard about it? 

The deadline for your comments is Aug. 3. Farmers believe it will adversely impact food production and may affect global food shortage and ultimately increase poverty.  

The target is achieved by controlling direct and indirect emissions from the application of fertilizer.

Have you heard one word from the Minister of Agriculture MP Marie-Claude Bibeau defending the agriculture industry? 

Slashing fertilizer use by 20 per cent could cost Canadian farmers more than $48 billion in lost sales by 2030 due to low yields according to a Fertilizer Canada study. 

Several provincial agricultural ministers have denounced the government’s fertilizer emissions reduction plan. 

The world is expecting Canada and its farmers to increase production and help the government solve world global food shortages. 

Farmers in Europe are standing up against similar climate change policies. It is time farmers and Canadian consumers stand up to PM Trudeau and his Minister of Environment, Steven Guilbeault, who have no idea how serious the implications of this fertilizer reduction policy are, and their arbitrary goal. 

It is time for action! 

Storm clouds are hanging over the agriculture industry. 

Ed Granger

Lethbridge