Media Catches Up to Sixth Estate on Bruce Carson, Tory Climate Change Hatchet Man
A week ago, I suggested that there was something very odd indeed about plucking a Conservative insider without a science background from the senior echelon of the Prime Minister’s Office and putting him in charge of Canada School of Energy and Environment, supposedly created to finance our revolutionary transition to a green, carbon-friendly economy. Today, Postmedia papers reported that I was right. Since at least a year ago tomorrow, Carson was meeting with members of the oil lobby, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, to scheme ways to defend the tarsands and co-opt “less strident” environmentalists.
Carson is a lawyer who worked for Harper when the latter was opposition leader and then prime minister, before moving to Alberta to head up the CSEE. Despite the fact that he is theoretically now an academic (the centre is jointly housed at the University of Alberta, University of Calgary, and University of Lethbridge), he still sees his first duty as a Conservative loyalist. Significantly, the same month that Carson was meeting with industry officials to plot on the climate change agenda, he gave a speech to the right-wing Manning Centre on the topic of “Managing a Conservative Political Agenda in a Minority Situation.” His speaking notes contain no references to climate policy whatsoever. They do note the importance of supposed Conservative values, like “unprecedented… faith in leader.”
The CSEE web page contains (as “resources”) a selection of other fatuous speeches, too.
Update: More on Carson and his scammy Indian Affairs dealings here.
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trevorus
yes. and that is why i peruse your site daily.
thanks again.
Sixth Estate
You’re most welcome.
Holly Stick
Carson has stepped down; is being investigated for lobbying though not registered (not Big Oil related in this case?)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2011/03/16/pol-carson-rcmp.html
Alison
Bruce Carson is vice chair of EPIC, the Energy Policy Institute of Canada; David Emerson is Chair.
“EPIC’s sole purpose is to develop a comprehensive, pan-Canadian approach to energy which will provide the foundation for recommendations to federal, provincial and territorial government authorities responsible for energy and environment policy.”
Members:
Accenture
Aecon Group Inc.
AltaLink Management Ltd.
Apache Corporation
ATCO Power
Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP)
Canadian Energy Pipeline Association (CEPA)
Canadian Gas Association
Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.
Canadian Pacific Railway
Canadian Petroleum Products Institute (CPPI)
Canadian Oil Sands Limited
Canfor
Capital Power Corporation
Cenovus Energy
ConocoPhillips Canada
Domtar Corporation
E. I. du Pont Canada Company
Emera Inc. (Nova Scotia Power Inc.)
Enbridge Inc.
EnCana Corporation
Enmax Corporation
Finning International Inc.
Forest Products Association of Canada
General Electric Canada
Imperial Oil Limited
Irving Oil Ltd.
Petrobank Energy & Resources Ltd.
Plutonic Power Corporation
Rio Tinto Alcan
Shell Canada Ltd.
Spectra Energy
Suncor Energy Inc.
TD Financial Bank Group
Terasen Inc.
Toronto Hydro Corporation
TransAlta Corporation
TransCanada Pipelines Ltd.
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Sixth Estate
Holly — Thanks for mentioning that — see my new post.
Alison — Very interesting. I see that EPIC promises that their board is comprised of an equal balance of energy and consumer organizations, but the leadership they disclose on their website is solely corporate. Unless they count Carson as their consumer advocate, which I personally don’t. Yet another fake “independent” think tank…
trevorus
here’s a sweet david emerson..sumthin…sumthin…piece of sludge….emerson…grumble…
http://boingboing.net/submit/2010/11/former-canadian-were-going-to-be-up-shit-creek-if-lefties-take-over.html
yeah. emerson…
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