Canada's aid to the oil & gas sector topped $29.6B in 2024: Environmental Defence
Big-ticket items last year include $21B in financing for the Trans Mountain pipeline project
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/canadas-aid-to-the-oil--gas-sector-topped-296b-in-2024-environmental-defence-142524302.html
Environmental Defence says its $29.6 billion figure spans direct grants, tax breaks, loans, and loan guarantees
Big-ticket items in 2024 include $21 billion in financing for the government-owned Trans Mountain pipeline project, and $7.5 billion in public financing through Export Development Canada.
Figures can't lie, but liars can figure. They make it sound like a grant but loans are just loans.
UN Climate Summit blocks Rebel News — again
Sheila Gunn Reid discusses how the United Nations refused to allow Rebel News into its climate change conference in Brazil despite an email claiming Rebel News was accredited.
The United Nations climate conference in Belém, Brazil, is underway — and, in true UN fashion, it took all of ten minutes for the hypocrisy to hit us in the face.
For the first time in nine years, Rebel News was officially accredited to enter the conference grounds. We got the approval emails. We got our work visas. We flew half way around the world. We went to pick up our badges. Then the bureaucrats did what UN bureaucrats always do when a climate heretic gets too close: they found a problem.
Suddenly, our accreditation “didn’t allow” us inside the main venue — the pavilions, media rooms, and meeting halls packed with activists, diplomats, and 55,000 carbon-burning delegates who flew halfway around the world to lecture ordinary people about their energy use.
But somehow, we were ...
