Sierra Club Canada

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Sierra Club Canada Foundation

Abbreviation	SCCF
Formation	1971
Type	Environmental organization based in Canada
Legal status	Active
Purpose	Environmental activism
Headquarters	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Region served	Canada
Membership	10,000
Official language	English, French
Website	www.sierraclub.ca

The Sierra Club Canada Foundation (SCCF) is a Canadian environmental organization made up of a national branch and five chapters in Ontario, Atlantic Canada, Québec, the Prairies, and a nation-wide Youth chapter. The organization's mission is to 'empower people to be leaders in protecting, restoring and enjoying healthy and safe ecosystems.'^[1]

The SCCF is one of three organizations with the name 'Sierra Club' which, though they sometimes work together on environmental causes, are separate entities. Terry A. Simmons incorporated the Sierra Club BC in 1969, affiliating the local organization with the Sierra Club of the United States. After that time several other chapters formed in the rest of Canada and these later became the Sierra Club Canada Foundation, an independent Canadian Sierra Club operating on a national basis and locally from the Prairies in the West to Atlantic Canada in the East, with the local BC organization remaining a separate entity.^[2]

The Sierra Club Canada Foundation was legally incorporated as a Canadian organization in July 1971.

As of 2023, the Sierra Club Canada Foundation is involved in a number of high-profile campaigns, for example, playing a central role in an international campaign against Equinor's proposed offshore oil projects^[3][4][5][6] such as the Bay du Nord oil project in Canada,^{[7][8][9][10]} and a role in a campaign against the Line 5 oil pipeline.^[11][12] The SCCF is also part of court challenge against the Bay du Nord oil project.^[13][14] In 2022 the organization and its members helped win an expanded plastic ban in Canada to include exports of plastic items.^[15][16][17]

At the local level its chapters are involved in a number of initiatives from opposing coal mining and power^[18] and advocating for renewable energy democracy^[19] in the Atlantic Chapter, to monitoring air quality and planting trees in Ontario.^[20][21] The Ottawa-based Breath Easy program of the Ontario Chapter was responsible for providing air quality monitors to CBC News journalists during the Canada convoy protest, which showed that PM 2.5 air pollution levels (pollution which can have serious health effects and can make its way into people's homes) ranged from four to eight times higher than normal for the area.^[22]

The Prairie Chapter works on issues such as wetland and grassland conservation and community gardens,^[23] while the Quebec Chapter works to counter fossil fuel projects, raise local community environmental awareness, and works with municipalities to advance conservation efforts to protect migratory birds.^[24][25] The Youth Chapter of the organization, based throughout the country, runs a podcast which has interviewed prominent Canadian political figures such as Elizabeth May, Laurel Collins, and Monique Pauzé.^[26]

The Wild Child outdoor education programs of the SCCF have gotten children outdoors for thousands of hours in Alberta, PEI, Nova Scotia.^[27]

As of 2010^[update], it has around approximately 10,000 members and supporters with its head office in Ottawa.