“Public education in Saskatchewan has become a key tool in securing the “hegemony” of the oil and gas industry and “obstructing” the transition to a low-carbon economy,” writes Fatima Syed in the National Observer.

In its analysis of the Eaton & Day report, National Observer highlights a disturbing pattern of infiltration by Big Oil in Saskatchewan’s public school system. The public education system:

1. restricts “the imagination of possible climate solutions to
   individual acts of conservation that fail to challenge the structural
   growth of fossil fuel production and consumption;”
2. accepts that
   “the influence of oil and gas has instilled in Saskatchewan’s education
   system a troubling worldview that doesn’t acknowledge the urgency of the
   climate emergency;” and,
3. supports “how teaching practices and
   resources work to centre, legitimize, and entrench a set of beliefs
   relating to climate change, energy, and environmentalism that align with
   the interests and discourses of oil industry actors.”