The Vancouver Province reports here that Environment Canada bureaucrats are distancing themselves from a government policy that they feel is wrong and will earn no public support. The story rests partly on charges from former Liberal environment minister David Anderson, but it is more compelling, given the long series of leaks that have plaguedย Environment Minister Rona Ambrose in the last few weeks.
Corporate pledges to fight deforestation by turning degraded pasture into cropland seen boosting demand for harmful chemical inputs.
As the New York-based firm was preparing to work on the climate summit, it was also pushing for Brazilian oil and gas distributor Vibra Energia to help power it.
Trade groups lobbied ministers to promote a source of energy linked to massive environmental harms at the U.N. climate conference.
Agribusiness companies generate huge quantities of greenhouse gas pollution โ and PR companies help them obscure it.
