{"id":48061,"date":"2019-08-28T07:45:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T12:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48061"},"modified":"2019-08-28T07:45:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T12:45:16","slug":"as-election-nears-canadas-biggest-oil-firm-is-noticeably-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48061","title":{"rendered":"As Election Nears, Canada\u2019s Biggest Oil Firm Is Noticeably Quiet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As Election Nears, Canada\u2019s Biggest Oil Firm Is Noticeably Quiet<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says he\u2019s Canada\u2019s energy \u2018champion.\u2019 Yet he opposes climate policy Suncor supports.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mark Little is the CEO of Suncor, the biggest oilsands firm in Canada which, awkwardly for some federal political parties, supports strong government policy on climate change. Photo by Jeff McIntosh, the Canadian Press.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As we race towards a federal election that will determine if and how Canada responds to the climate emergency, one central player is noticeably absent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suncor is without a doubt the biggest and most influential oilsands company in the country. Contrary to what you might think, however, it has a more aggressive position on climate action than federal Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer. While Scheer promises to scrap Canada\u2019s national carbon price as soon he gets into office, Suncor argues the Liberal policy<\/a> should stay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have and continue to support the Pan-Canadian Framework as a path forward to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,\u201d Nathan Maycher, Suncor\u2019s director of climate change and sustainability integration, told The Tyee in an email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2017, the company employed 12,381 people, brought in over $32 billion in revenue and produced roughly 1.2 million barrels of bitumen per day, which is over one-third of the industry\u2019s total output, according to\u00a0research<\/a>\u00a0from the Corporate Mapping Project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet when three major oilsands producers \u2014 Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., Cenovus Energy and MEG Energy Corp. \u2014 ran an \u201copen letter to Canadians\u201d in 30 newspapers<\/a> this July arguing<\/a> that \u201cshutting down Canada\u2019s oil industry will have little impact on global [emissions] targets,\u201d Suncor stayed silent. And the company\u2019s CEO Mark Little doesn\u2019t appear to be involved with an effort<\/a> by small and mid-level Calgary oil and gas executives to get Scheer elected prime minister this October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As Election Nears, Canada\u2019s Biggest Oil Firm Is Noticeably Quiet Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says he\u2019s Canada\u2019s energy \u2018champion.\u2019 Yet he opposes climate policy Suncor supports. As we race towards a federal election that will determine if and how Canada responds to the climate emergency, one central player is noticeably absent. Suncor is without a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6],"tags":[26630,103,7902,141,12878,3540,2341,23884],"class_list":["post-48061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-andrew-scheer","tag-canada","tag-canadian-federal-election","tag-climate-change","tag-geoff-dembicki","tag-oilsands","tag-suncor","tag-thetyee-ca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48063,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48061\/revisions\/48063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}