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Why is Canada backing oil over other industries?
rbarnes Posted On décembre 2, 2013


ERIC REGULY The Globe and Mail In 1983, I started my journalism career in Alberta as an energy writer. It was a thrill. The oil sands were coming on strong, Calgary and Fort McMurray were boomtowns and stupid money was […]


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Scientists Decry Canadian Undermining of Climate Science
hannah Posted On novembre 29, 2012


Bloomberg The government of Canada’s official position on climate change is that it’s real and requires an « aggressive » response. Despite that, Canada’s ruling Conservative Party government has been leading a slow and systematic unraveling of environmental and climate research budgets, […]


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Harper government cancels 3,000 environmental reviews on pipelines and other projects
Christian Holz Posted On août 24, 2012


Gregory Jack, the director of a Natural Resources Canada task force on energy security, said last February that industry stakeholders saw “an opportunity to use (Enbridge’s proposed Northern) Gateway (pipeline) to push for (the) need for regulatory reform.” Jack’s assessment […]


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Feds hid names of big oil companies at lobbying retreat
hannah Posted On février 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 février 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 février 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 février 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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Feds list First Nations, green groups as oilsands ‘adversaries’
hannah Posted On janvier 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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Canada versus the environmentalists
hannah Posted On janvier 11, 2012


The Canadian government’s public-relations strategy, when it comes to the oilsands, is ham-handed. The message track goes like this: Canada and its oil are not enemies to the environment, but they are enemies to environmentalism. That position might be logically […]


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Canada’s ‘ethical oil’ push gets tarred in British paper
Christian Holz Posted On novembre 28, 2011


Canada made the front pages in Britain today, but not in a way that will do much for the national image. “UK secretly helping Canada push its ‘dirty’ fuel,” reads the top-of-page headline in Monday’s Guardian. In the story  picked up […]


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