While fake scandals roil Ottawa politics, the real ones continue

A tailings pond full of toxic effluent has been leaking out of Imperial Oil’s Kearl project since last May and the company never bothered to tell the Indigenous people whose land, fishing, and livelihood were imperilled. 'Very worrisome,' that Alberta regulators didn’t alert their federal counterparts at once, said Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault.

Environment Minister Stephen Guilbeault, pictured recently in a Hill scrum. The recent leak at Imperial's Kearl site, located about 70 kilometres north of Fort McMurray, is only the tip of a much larger scandal: the power the fossil fuel industry continues to wield over the country’s governments and regulators, writes Susan Riley.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SUSAN RILEY

March 20, 2023

CHELSEA, QUE.—Official Ottawa—politicians, media, retired senior intelligence officials, and lobbyists—think they have a good scandal by the tail and they are wagging it to death. It concerns amateurish Chinese interference in our elections in recent y...

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