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Feds hid names of big oil companies at lobbying retreat
hannah Posted On February 14, 2012


OTTAWA — The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade has deliberately attempted to conceal key details about a taxpayer-funded lobbying training retreat it organized last year in London, England for its European diplomats to promote the oilsands, including names […]


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Oil Lobbying for Dummies: Diplomats trained at London retreat on how to promote oilsands
hannah Posted On February 12, 2012


Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade was tight-lipped this weekend about a taxpayer-funded two-day retreat, staged last year in London, England, involving its federal bureaucrats, Canadian diplomats, the Alberta government and the oil industry. The meeting was designed as […]


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Pro-oil lobby retreat urges feds to deliver climate-change solutions
hannah Posted On February 12, 2012


OTTAWA — A taxpayer-funded pro-oil lobbying retreat, involving Canada’s European diplomats and industry, has urged the federal government to deliver real climate change solutions to restore the country’s sagging environmental reputation. The two-day retreat, held last February 1 and 2 […]


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Green groups slam big oil on ‘lobby-busting’ tour
hannah Posted On February 8, 2012


OTTAWA — A powerful Canadian oil and gas industry group has been systematically lobbying European embassies in recent months against proposed climate change legislation that discourages high-polluting transportation fuels such as crude oil from the oilsands sector, environmental groups said […]


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Lobby Busting Tour of EU Embassies Debunks Tar Sands Misconceptions
hannah Posted On February 7, 2012


The Council of Canadians, Climate Action Network Canada and the Indigenous Environmental Network have been meeting with Ottawa-based European Union Embassies to counteract Canadian lobbying against an important European climate policy. “Canadian lobbying against the EU Fuel Quality Directive is […]


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Feds list First Nations, green groups as oilsands ‘adversaries’
hannah Posted On January 26, 2012


OTTAWA — Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade has labelled aboriginal groups and environmentalists as “adversaries,” while describing the National Energy Board, an independent federal regulator of industry, as an “ally” in its public relations strategy to polish […]


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Pan-European oils sands advocacy strategy
hannah Posted On January 26, 2012


This March 2011 document outlines the oil sands advocacy strategy in Europe, identifying key objectives and outcomes. It also identifies allies and adversaries and includes the National Energy Board as an ally and ‘aboriginal groups’ and ‘environmental organizations’ as adversaries. […]


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Keystone XL and its 8 billion tonnes of carbon
hannah Posted On January 18, 2012


Media reports indicate that President Obama’s will announce a decision today to reject TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. This would be a source of hope and inspiration for people in Canada, and around the world, who are standing […]


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Climate Action Network Canada responds impending Keystone rejection
hannah Posted On January 18, 2012


In response to the apparent forthcoming announcement by President Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline today, Hannah McKinnon, Campaign Director of Climate Action Network Canada has responded as follows: “If President Obama does indeed deliver a ‘No’ verdict on […]


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David Suzuki: What’s so radical about caring for the Earth and opposing Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline?
hannah Posted On January 18, 2012


Caring about the air, water, and land that give us life. Exploring ways to ensure Canada’s natural resources serve the national interest. Knowing that sacrificing our environment to a corporate-controlled economy is suicide. If those qualities make us radicals, as […]


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