The End of This World: Climate Justice in So-Called Canada online book launch
by Corporate Mapping Project | January 31, 2023
The End of This World: Climate Justice in So-Called Canada online book launch Register for the event here. The climate crisis is here, and the end of this world—a world built on land theft, resource extraction, and colonial genocide—is on the horizon. The authors of the newly released book The End of This World: Climate …
UCP appointments expand corporate power over post-secondary institutions
by Corporate Mapping Project | May 31, 2022
New report reveals increased corporate governance of higher education in Alberta Edmonton – The UCP government is on a mission to change the landscape of higher education in Alberta. Cutting to the bone the operating budgets of universities and colleges is the most visible strategy used to advance their privatization agenda. But another front in …
Higher Education – Corporate or Public?
by Laurie Adkin, Mike Lang, Mark Shakespear, David Chen and William Carroll | May 31, 2022
How the UCP is restructuring post-secondary education in Alberta Over many years, post-secondary education institutions (PSEIs) around the world have undergone a transformation toward the corporatization of education. Increasingly, these institutions are seen (and funded) less as providers of public goods (higher education and research) and more as “businesses” that should produce commodities and attract …
Webinar: Petro-populism in an age of climate denial and digital disinformation
by Corporate Mapping Project | April 22, 2022
This webinar was put on in May 2022 by the Corporate Mapping Project and hosted by CCPA-BC Director Shannon Daub. Researchers Bob Neubauer and Nick Graham shared highlights from their investigation into the ways industry-linked organizations (such as Oil Respect and Resource Works) and allied groups (like Canada Strong) use social media to create a …
Modernizing BC’s Oil and Gas Royalty Regime to Tackle Climate Change
by Marc Lee, Tom Green, Peter McCartney and Anjali Appadurai | February 2, 2022
In 2021, BC got a full serving of extreme weather events due to global warming. It is clear that the BC government must speed up meaningful action to phase out domestic consumption and production of fossil fuels that are the principal cause of climate change. The BC government’s current review of the royalty regime for …
The future of university divestment campaigns: Reflections from inside the movement
by Emily Lowan | January 7, 2022
To an outsider, university divestment campaigns might look like a hopeful but impractical social movement led by naive cadres of sign-waving students. The truth, however, is that divestment is more successful and has more transformative potential than what first appears. Largely hidden but tightly woven connections between universities, finance and fossil fuels have provided ongoing …
Key recommendations to the BC oil and gas royalty review
by Marc Lee and Ben Parfitt | December 3, 2021
The oil and gas industry is a marginal player in BC’s overall economy, yet has far-reaching environmental impacts, is inconsistent with global climate action and undermines First Nations’ rights and title. And yet, since BC started to implement climate action targets and policies in 2007, gas production has doubled. In our submission to BC’s oil …
Can CleanBC reach its 2030 GHG target? A closer look at industrial emissions
by Marc Lee | November 29, 2021
In the wake of negotiations in Glasgow to push forward global climate action, it is clear that rich countries and jurisdictions like BC are not doing enough to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. On the heels of Glasgow, the massive flooding in southern BC should be another wake-up call on top of a year of …
LNG exports will doom BC’s emissions reduction goals
by David Hughes | November 26, 2021
When the provincial government announced its CleanBC Roadmap to 2030 on Oct. 25, conspicuously absent was any mention of BC’s LNG export aspirations, which will increase emissions from the oil and gas sector and likely doom any chance of meeting BC’s emissions reduction targets. The LNG Canada project under construction in Kitimat includes a gas-fired …
Albertans have a right to be outraged…about the $3.5 million Allan Inquiry
by David Hughes | November 1, 2021
Last week Albertans received the fruits of the Kenney Government’s inquiry into foreign-funded “anti-Alberta” activities targeting the oil and gas industry. The $3.5 million report, a year late and a million dollars over budget, found no evidence of illegal activities or wrongdoing on the part of any individual or organization targeted by the Inquiry. When …
For climate’s sake, Canada Pension Plan needs to take a serious look at its investments
by James Rowe, Jessica Dempsey and James Mager | September 9, 2021
The Canada Pension Plan (CPP) manages the pensions of 20 million Canadians. In a recent Corporate Mapping Project report, we found that the CPP has increased the number of shares it owns in fossil fuel companies since Canada signed the Paris Agreement five years ago. The CPP’s total fossil fuel investments across its entire portfolio …
An Insecure Future: Canada’s biggest public pensions are still banking on fossil fuels
by Jessica Dempsey, James Rowe, Katie Reeder, Jack Vincent and Zoë Yunker | August 12, 2021
Two of Canada’s biggest public pension plans could lead the way toward a global transition to a greener, more sustainable economy, but their commitments to climate action may be more talk than walk. The Canada Pension Plan and the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec say they are serious about tackling climate change, however they continue …