Memo to Ministers Shows Fossil Lobby Losing Touch – The Energy Mix
After the association issued a 13-page letter to Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan and seven other Cabinet ministers, demanding more than 30 different cuts to the climate, environmental, and safety regulations governing the industry, the details entered the public sphere.
Most of the list had nothing to do with the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet CAPP tried to attach its demands to a guiding principle of medicine that dates back to the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates: First, do no harm.
The “crass attempt to exploit a global pandemic,” in the words of one veteran climate advocate, gave Canadians an unmistakable view of the fossil lobby’s “radical agenda” on everything from climate regulation to oil train safety, from species protection to the transparency of the federal lobbying process.