In Alberta, fossil fuel development talk gets spread at schools too. Not only from the kids who have parents working in the business but even from Alberta MPs.
If all you saw were BP’s ads, you’d think the company’s top priority
was investing in renewable energy. Like other oil majors, the company
has embraced green marketing
to rehabilitate its image after decades of misleading the public about
the negative consequences of burning fossil fuels. But the truth of the
matter is that companies like BP, ExxonMobil, and Chevron are still
laser-focused on the thing they do best: finding and selling more oil.
A new complaint
against BP from environmental law firm ClientEarth alleges the company
is misleading the public by claiming it is dedicated to tackling the
climate crisis. The legal action centers around a marketing initiative
the oil company launched early this year, which has peppered
newspapers, billboards, and television screens across the U.S. and
Europe with claims that BP is committed to the transition to clean
energy.
“While BP’s advertising focuses on clean energy, in reality, more
than 96 percent of the company’s annual capital expenditure is on oil
and gas,” ClientEarth climate lawyer Sophie Marjanac said in a
statement.
TORONTO –
Days after shovels hit the ground in Alberta on the Trans Mountain
pipeline expansion, a new survey suggests the majority of Canadians
support the construction of new pipelines.
The survey, commissioned by CTV News and conducted by Nanos Research, polled 1,010 Canadians and found that 42 per cent supported new pipelines while another 23 per cent somewhat supported them.
Just under a third, or 30 per cent, oppose or somewhat oppose pipeline
construction. Four per cent of respondents said they were unsure.
North Vancouver Liberal MP Jonathan Wilkinson, formerly the minister of fisheries, oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, was sworn into his new role in Ottawa on Wednesday, Nov. 18. He takes over the portfolio from Catherine McKenna and is tasked with pushing through a controversial pipeline project in B.C.
Wilkinson intends to carry through on the Liberal’s plan to transition to clean energy technology and said the Trans Mountain pipeline project will help.
According to ‘Dogwood’, Alberta premier Jason Kenney demanded Justin Trudeau replace Catherine McKenna as environment minister, claiming she was “anti-pipeline”. They says he’s to work promoting Kenney’s #1 priority: a massive expansion of the Alberta oil sands – and the pipelines and oil tankers it will require.
Kai Nagata, Communications Director at Dowood writes, “Wilkinson may be a Liberal, but when it comes to the Trans Mountain oil tanker project he’s on the same team as Jason Kenney.
"Wilkinson has final say over Teck’s gargantuan new oil sands mine proposal. The Frontier project would be twice the size of Vancouver, pumping out 260,000 more barrels of bitumen a day. But it can only be built if Trans Mountain is there to carry away the oil.
That’s why Wilkinson is on a media tour, greenwashing the pipeline as part of ‘Canada’s climate plan’”.
