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Canada Helped Fossil Companies Improve Global ‘Perception’ Of Oilsands

"Pathways Alliance took the stage at Canada’s 2022 UN climate summit pavilion, months before the federal government took on greenwashing"

"As this year’s United Nations climate summit hits the halfway mark, newly obtained documents show how the Liberal government gave Canada’s oil and gas lobbyists a platform to polish the sector’s reputation at the same event in 2022. Days later, the same government began a process of cracking down on misleading environmental messaging.

Internal correspondence obtained by The Narwhal shows the Pathways Alliance, a group of Canadian oilsands companies, proposing to Environment and Climate Change Canada that it host a special event at the United Nations climate summit in 2022, aiming “to begin to change the international narrative of [the] oilsands.”

The companies told Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government one of their “desired outcomes” of the event at the Canada Pavilion at the COP27 conference in Egypt was an “improved perception of the oilsands among international audiences.”"

Carl Meyer reports for The Narwhal November 19, 2024.

Source: The Narwhal, 11/20/2024