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Researchers sent an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr, Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency.

They argue a draft environmental assessment for the project likely underestimated the amount of emissions that will be released.

Danny Harvey, a climate change scientist at the University of Toronto who signed the letter, says the report doesn’t address unknowns like the quantity of gasses that will escape into the atmosphere during the extraction process.

“The environmental assessment is superficial and incomplete,” he said in an interview with The Canadian Press.

Harvey said his opposition isn’t simply to this project, but to all LNG projects. He wants a moratorium on fracking until more research is done on the long-term effects.

“It’s reckless to proceed until we really know what’s going on. It’s reckless because we’re playing around with our own future,” he said.

Harvey said global emissions will have to drop to almost zero by the middle of the century if there’s any hope of limiting warming to two degrees, which countries agreed to at the Paris Climate Conference in December.

“You’re not going to go to zero if you’re expanding the fossil fuel infrastructure and making investments that are going to last 40, 50, 60 years. It’s completely contrary to that,” he said.

If we cut our fossil fuel usage, the supplies we currently have in place will meet our needs and there’ll be no need for new infrastructure, Harvey added.