I guess you have ask to skirt the rules when you intend to break them?
A lobby group representing Canada’s biggest oil and gas producers has asked the government to fast-track a major industrial project in a move the federal environment minister says could “circumvent” the law.The project is a proposal by the Pathways Alliance, a group of six fossil fuel companies that wants to capture massive amounts of carbon pollution from oilsands facilities in Alberta and transport it hundreds of kilometres to an underground storage hub. The lobby group delivered its request in a letter sent to four federal cabinet ministers in January 2023 and included in internal government correspondence obtained by The Narwhal.Oil companies say the project requires billions of dollars in public subsidies to proceed, and that it can help reign in pollution from a sector that is Canada’s fastest growing source of climate-warming emissions including carbon dioxide. Environmental groups and some First Nations have balked at the prospect of subsidizing Canadian companies that have reported hundreds of millions, or billions of dollars, in quarterly profits this year and loosening environmental oversight for an unproven plan that could impact natural ecosystems.According to the letter, Pathways Alliance president Kendall Dilling asked the government for a series of commitments that it said would give it the confidence it needed to proceed. These would include an “assurance that the Pathways pipeline, hub and capture projects would not require a federal review under the Impact Assessment Act.”
Source: Inside Pathways Alliance’s request to fast-track a project | The Narwhal
