Industry Spin

24/03/25
Author: 
John Woodside
March 19, 2024: Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson pictured during an interview in his office on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Photo by Dave Chan/Canada's National Observer

Mar. 21, 2025

The fossil fuel industry’s call to roll back environmental policy at a time of economic crisis will hurt Canadians in the long run, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson told the executives of Canada’s largest oil and gas companies Thursday.

16/03/25
Author: 
Taylor C. Noakes
Ads delivered in St. Catharines and Thorold, Ont. on Meta platforms. Images compiled by Rory White.

Mar. 7, 2025

In recent years Canadians have been regularly bombarded by a very specific kind of advertisement that claims to represent grassroots interests and opposes any government effort to enforce environmental regulations. They’re the creations of third party advertisers, often little more than an arm's length away from conservative parties and the fossil fuel sector, and are perhaps the single biggest direct source of environmental disinformation in Canada.

16/03/25
Author: 
Adam Radwanski
Building pipelines - Trade war a ‘great opportunity’ to talk about pipelines, says CNRL president

 Mar. 8, 2025

Despite the security dangers posed by U.S. President Donald Trump, there is no way a new – or resurrected – pipeline project would be completed in less than five years

Jonathan Wilkinson would like everyone to take a deep breath, when it comes to one of the biggest, costliest and riskiest ways that Canada could try to assert its energy independence in the face of Donald Trump’s threats.

06/03/25
Author: 
Nancy Olewiler Kathryn Harrison Kate Harland
B.C. consumers aren't getting the whole story about renewable natural gas, also known as biofuels. Photo by Oregon Department of Agriculture/Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Mar. 6, 2025

Renewable natural gas is touted as a critical climate solution, but there are serious problems in B.C. with accountability and how emissions benefits are counted from the U.S. 

02/03/25
Author: 
BC Climate Emergency Campaign and Allies
 from https://bcclimateemergency.ca/progress-report
Feb. 2025
 
SUMMARY
 
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) has been widely promoted by governments and industry throughout B.C.
as a fix-all solution that will supposedly boost B.C.’s economy, support local jobs, get countries in Asia
off coal, reduce B.C.’s reliance on American energy exports, and lower B.C.’s emissions.
 
This briefing note explains why LNG is a false solution on all these fronts. It lays out environmental,
02/03/25
Author: 
Martin Hart-Landsberg
Robot

 March 2, 2025  

The leading big tech companies are working hard to sell artificial intelligence (AI) as the gateway to a future of plenty for all. And to this point they have been surprisingly successful in capturing investor money and government support, making their already wealthy owners even wealthier. However, that success doesn’t change the fact that their AI systems have already largely exhausted their potential.

20/02/25
Author: 
Primary Author: Gaye Taylor
Pixabay

Feb. 20, 2025

Fossil fuel companies are influencing what Canadian students learn about climate change, funding and supplying educational materials that frame the issue to serve their interests, health and climate advocates warn in a new report.

13/02/25
Author: 
John Woodside
Photo via Trans Mountain / Facebook

Opposition parties are calling for “full transparency” from the federal government about its financial commitments to the Trans Mountain expansion project, following revelations of a $20-billion refinancing loan offered to the beleaguered company.

12/02/25
Author: 
Tony Richardson
Cory Doctorow

Nov. 1, 2023

In this insightful book review, Tony Richardson summarises and analyses Cory Doctorow's compelling arguments in his latest book about how a few powerful technology companies have come to dominate the internet and other industries.

First of all, Doctorow deals with how Big Tech took control of the internet. He argues that Lovelace, Turing, and others pioneered the internet. In other words, Amazon could not exist without its predecessors.

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