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18 Oct, 7 tweets, 3 min read
Canada won’t stop Crown corporations from investing in fossil fuels any time soon. Here’s why

@aballinga reports:
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Canada is facing calls to reduce or quickly eliminate the billions of dollars that Crown corporations provide to oil and gas companies alongside its existing pledge to scrap unspecified direct government subsidies for the heavy-emitting sector by 2023. thestar.com/politics/feder…
But the federal government has no plans to immediately stop Crown corporations from financing fossil fuel companies. Meanwhile, it’s not ruling out pushing them to reduce those supports more quickly, says Canada’s environment minister. thestar.com/politics/feder…
Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson told the Star that Crown institutions like Export Development Canada are already committed to “net-zero” emissions — when nature or technology can remove remaining greenhouse gas pollution from the air — by 2050.
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But he added that, as the government commits to finding ways to more quickly slash emissions, the role of Crown corporations will be examined.

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Big money is in play here. EDC, the government’s export credit agency, says it provided financing and insurance that helped facilitate $62 billion in business for Canadian oil and gas companies from 2015 to 2020.
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For Julia Levin, senior program manager of climate and energy for the advocacy organization Environmental Defence, Canada must eliminate public financing of fossil fuel projects by the end of this year. thestar.com/politics/feder…

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