The Canadian federal government is actively co-ordinating with Alberta’s fossil-fuel industry to fight international global-warming policies, we’ve run this ad in the Hill-Times! @ Greenpeace Canada
CBC ~ Feds, Alberta fight foreign climate laws: report
Mike DeSouza @ Montreal Gazette ~ Three federal departments worked to put positive spin on ‘dirty oil’
Three major departments in the federal government have been actively co-ordinating a communications strategy with Alberta and its fossil-fuel industry to fight international global-warming policies that “target” oilsands production, newly released federal documents reveal.
The documents, obtained by Postmedia News, suggest that Environment Canada, Natural Resources Canada as well as the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, have collaborated on an “advocacy strategy” in the U.S. to promote the oilsands and discourage environmental-protection policies. (…)
