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As world leaders descend on Glasgow this week for the start of the 2021 UN Climate Conference, Alberta - the Canadian jurisdiction with perhaps the most on the line - will be watching.
Launched in 2019 by Premier Jason Kenney’s United Conservative government to investigate foreign funding of environmental groups, the inquiry led by commissioner Steve Allan found no “suggestion of wrongdoing on the part of any individual or organization.”
“No individual or organization, in my view, has done anything illegal. Indeed, they have exercised their rights of free speech,” the report says.
Critics will conclude this entire inquiry was a waste of time, but Energy Minister Sonya Savage believes it’s money well spent.
International Energy Agency (IEA) report laying out path to net-zero emissions poses big implications for oilsands and LNG in Canada