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Over the past six months, Imperial Oil has been lobbying the Alberta government, including the Premier’s Office and the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER), on “cost effective regulatory requirements” regarding continuous emission monitoring, according to publicly available documents in the lobbyist register. According to the records, Imperial Oil met with the Premier’s Office, the Alberta Legislative Assembly, Alberta Municipal Affairs, and the Alberta Energy Regulator among other government departments on at least six occasions. Meeting notes include “Imperial Oil Ltd. believes the long-term objective of a climate change policy should be to reduce the risk of serious impacts to humanity and ecosystems at minimum societal cost while recognizing the importance of safe, reliable, affordable and abundant energy for global economic development.” Regarding a meeting on land reclamation, notes include: “communicating with the Government of Alberta about land reclamation and remediation policies, in general. The goal is to advocate for efficient and cost-effective regulatory requirements.” What Imperial Oil wasn’t doing during this time was notifying First Nations that wastewater from the Imperial Oil Resourced Limited mine, which is tainted with dangerous levels of arsenic, dissolved metals, hydrocarbons and sulfites have been leaking from the Kearl project onto Crown lands since May […]
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