this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2024
177 points (98.9% liked)

Canada

7203 readers
163 users here now

What's going on Canada?

Communities

🍁 Meta

🗺️ Provinces / Territories

🏙️ Cities / Local Communities

🏒 SportsHockey

Football (NFL)

  • List of All Teams: unknown

Football (CFL)

  • List of All Teams: unknown

Baseball

Basketball

Soccer

💻 Universities

💵 Finance / Shopping

🗣️ Politics

🍁 Social and Culture

Rules

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage:

https://lemmy.ca

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
otter@lemmy.ca
177
Big Oil is lobbying aggressively against climate action (www.nationalobserver.com)
submitted 3 months ago by streetfestival@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca
7 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Fossil fuel companies and their industry associations lobbied the federal government an average of five times per working day in 2023, according to a new analysis from Environmental Defence.

The environmental watchdog tracked 31 companies and industry associations over the course of last year and identified 1,255 separate meetings. The top lobbied departments were Energy and Natural Resources Canada (NRCAN), Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) and Finance Canada, with 313, 253 and 118 meetings respectively.

It’s no surprise the three departments most responsible for the country’s emission reduction efforts are the target of intense lobbying, according to the study’s lead author, Emilia Belliveau.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 36 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just your daily reminder that much of the power that rules the world - the immediate political power and the wealth that buys influence over that power - is in the hands of literal psychopaths who value their short-term self-interest over anything and everything else, including humanity's health and well-being.

One day there will be a memorial erected over a lifeless Earth - "Here lies the human race - billions of lives and millennia of history destroyed so that a few psychopaths could buy mansions and yachts."

[–] zcd@lemmy.ca 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We need some Nuremberg style trials for these climate criminals or we're all gonna die

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We're all going die anyway, I'd just like to do it on a mega yacht

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago

With a stick of dynamite clenched between your teeth giving your local billionaire a final bear hug?