A decade of campaigns against major pipelines scored a significant victory when President Biden canceled the Keystone XL in January. Investment in Canada’s oil industry has fallen steadily since 2014. As a result, growing global pressure to transition away from oil has been felt acutely in Alberta, where the economy has long revolved around fossil fuels. The reports “would make even a skeptic blush in terms of how incredibly bad they are,” said Martin Olszynski, an associate law professor at the University of Calgary who submitted comments on the reports to the government.īut he and others warned that the inquiry bears a disturbing similarity to the lies that culminated in the storming of the Capitol last month, and is a symptom of a dangerous strain of politics that has spread across both the United States and Canada, where it is feeding off the struggles of the nation’s oil industry.Ĭanada’s oil sands, also known as tar sands, are an especially dirty and relatively expensive source of crude. Another, which holds that foreign interests are targeting Canada’s oil sector, was written by an American oil industry group. One claimed that environmental advocates were part of a “transnational progressive movement” that was using climate change as a pretext to stage a “voluntary” overthrow of the global capitalist system. Some advocates said they received death threats after its launch and had their social media feeds inundated with hateful screeds.īut opposition boiled over after the reports were published last month. The reports were part of a public inquiry, now in its final stages, launched by Premier Jason Kenney in 2019 to probe what he called a foreign-funded “anti-Alberta energy campaign.” The effort drew sharp criticism from the start as a veiled attempt to intimidate activists who opposed the rapid expansion of Canada’s oil sands.
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6 insurrection at the US Capitol, the provincial government in Alberta, home to Canada’s oil industry, published a series of reports laced with climate change denial and conspiracy theories and targeting environmental advocates.
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