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submitted 3 months ago by streetfestival@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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.

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[-] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 36 points 3 months ago

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

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

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 7 points 3 months ago

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?

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 months ago

It seems pretty easy in Canada.

Big oil, big grocery, big telecom, etc.

Canada is three lobbies in a trench coat.

[-] frunch@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Fossil fuel companies and their industry associations lobbied the federal government an average of five times per working day

I would be ready to punch faces if i was accosted by someone 5 times a day about their shitty self-absorbed needs

Seriously--I'd spite them for being so fucking pushy. WTF

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

Fossil fuel companies have been doing this since the rise of coal as a commercially available fuel.

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