BC Government Fossil Fuel Subsidy Data Finally Public
by Ben Parfitt | November 13, 2019
For more than two years, the British Columbia government has vigorously fought efforts to compel the release of information on the hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies that it doles out to fossil fuel companies each year. It has either refused outright to release documents or it has handed over pages of essentially worthless …
Protected: Map of Saskatchewan Oil & Gas Industry Spills
by Price of Oil Investigation | November 12, 2019
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Big Oil’s Political Reach: Mapping fossil fuel lobbying from Harper to Trudeau
by Nicholas Graham, William K. Carroll and David Chen | November 5, 2019
In Canada between 2011 and 2018 the fossil fuel industry was one of the most active industry groups lobbying the federal government with over six contacts per working day made with government officials. During this period, the intensity of lobbying increased when salient policy issues—like the Environmental Assessment Act—arose or when there were big stakes …
Fossil fuel industry lobby influences federal policy regardless of who’s in government, new report
by Corporate Mapping Project | November 5, 2019
(VANCOUVER) Over 60 per cent of voters in the recent federal election cast ballots for parties that campaigned to take action on the climate emergency. And, with the Liberal party returning to government having committed to more aggressively fight climate change, a new report suggests that the influence of the fossil fuel lobby may not …
