1/ This announcement marks the Carney government’s official surrender to the oil and gas lobby.


By gutting carbon pricing to the point of irrelevance, it has dismantled the last federal climate measure standing. We now have a federal government that no longer even pretends to rein in big corporate polluters.

cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-sm…

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PM Carney seems ready to suspend environmental regulation in Canada under the illusion that he can buy political peace with Danielle Smith (ie the oil industry).

The benefits will be real: for a handful of companies with already-bloated profits.

The costs will be real too: a rising tide of economic and ecological disaster that sinks all boats.

thestar.com/politics/political…

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Althia Raj: Mark Carney runs roughshod over the environment: ‘It’s worse than what Harper did’

The prime minister plans to make it easier to kill off endangered species and pollute waterways in the name of fast-tracking private-sector development projects, Althia Raj writes.

^{The Toronto Star}