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Montrealers lined up around the block on a chilly March evening as they waited to enter one of the final Liberal leadership campaign events of then-Liberal leadership contender Mark Carney.It just so happened to be held at a venue in downtown Montreal, in the riding of then-environment minister Steven Guilbeault.
At least 16 fossil fuel companies operating in Canada’s oilsands allegedly broke rules requiring them to pay for environmental monitoring by independent scientists, according to newly released data from the Alberta government.
Three out of seven members of a provincial board that backed Premier Danielle Smith’s 2023 decision to pause approvals of renewable energy projects were previously executives at fossil fuel giant, TC Energy. It’s a coincidence that prompts some experts to question whether the provincial government stacked the board with oil and gas industry insiders to support its agenda — and...
A Canadian government-owned energy company is defending paying over $32 million to a controversial global consulting firm to help it save money on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, which was already billions of dollars over budget. U.S.-based McKinsey & Company won the hefty contract — singled out in a recent federal audit — without any competition in October 2022...
The Canadian government says it will unveil a draft of new rules to cap heat-trapping pollution from the oil and gas industry within a matter of weeks. “We’re finalizing [it],” federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault said at a news conference on Parliament Hill on Tuesday. “It’s a matter of weeks before we’ll be able to present draft...
The federal government paid $1.35 million for advice on how to beef up Canada’s clean technology policies to a prestigious global consulting firm that was also advising some of North America’s largest oil and gas companies, according to court documents reviewed by The Narwhal. A federal Crown corporation paid the firm, McKinsey & Company, to provide the advice to the...