{"id":794858,"date":"2026-07-11T10:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T10:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/794858\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T10:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T10:55:10","slug":"sierra-club-of-canada-concerned-about-environmental-impact-with-bay-du-nord-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/794858\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Club of Canada Concerned About Environmental Impact with Bay du Nord Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bay-du-nord-equinor-protest-sierra-club-of-canada.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Sierra Club of Canada Concerned About Environmental Impact with Bay du Nord Project\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sierra Club of Canada has been a vocal opponent of the Bay du Nord project (Sierra Club of Canada)<\/p>\n<p>The Sierra Club of Canada says both levels of government are ignoring serious environmental concerns when it comes to the Bay du Nord project.<\/p>\n<p>The group raised questions during the final day of in-person public consultations this week in St. John\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Their focus was mostly on the company\u2019s plan to mitigate environmental impacts, and how it would handle a potential oil spill.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesperson Spencer Scott says other countries have already pulled out of major oil and gas projects over similar environmental concerns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking through their environmental safety assessment, I don\u2019t understand how they got passed, first of all, considering they admit that if there\u2019s an oil spill, depending on the time of year, it could be catastrophic to seabirds,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt could be catastrophic to sea turtles, cetaceans, other marine life. And they also admit that if they do need to cap the project, it\u2019ll take up to 18 days. That\u2019s a long time for oil to just be spilling into our oceans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The Sierra Club of Canada has been a vocal opponent of the Bay du Nord project (Sierra&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,269876,44,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-794858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}