>“In Canada, we expect, Canadians expect everyone to step up and do their parts. But instead, we have oil and gas, which is largely foreign-owned, largely U.S.-owned, who aren’t doing their part. All they’re doing is increasing our emissions and demanding subsidies,” McKenna said in an interview while at Montreal’s climate summit last week.
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>She adds that oil companies are “demanding that Canadian taxpayers pay the bill for cleaning up the pollution they cause and building pipelines they won’t risk their own money on.”
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>…
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>McKenna, who served as environment minister from 2015 to 2021, has a long list of grievances against the heads of these companies. She says they have been profiting from Russia’s illegal war on Ukraine and now the war in Iran.
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>“But what do they do with those profits? They give them back to fat cat CEOs and then they go give them back to their shareholders, largely Americans who support Donald Trump,” she said.
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>McKenna stresses that increasing gas and oil production year after year is not the direction the rest of the world is taking.
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>“From an environmental perspective it makes no sense — and economically, even less,” she said. “Energy shocks are moving countries everywhere even faster toward renewable energy which is cheaper, cleaner,” she said.
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>Energy shocks refer to sudden changes in prices, caused major disruptions, like wars.
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>A recent report by the International Renewable Energy Agency shows that in 2025, renewable energy accounted for 85.6 per cent of the total expansion in global electricity capacity.
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>McKenna says she’s worried for Canada.
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>“How about get people off fossil fuels, get them into EVs,” she said. “Why are we still heating our homes with oil and gas?”
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>…
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>Meanwhile, McKenna says, oil and gas are the leading cause of climate change. She accuses major companies of participating in greenwashing efforts and spreading disinformation to keep up business as usual.
HM584 on
Most foreign oil producers have left Canadian market in last 10 years, Shell, Total, Devon, Chevron, BP… the only players left are CNRL, Suncor and Cenovus and they exclusively operate in Canada and are owned by most Canadians. Her information is at least 15 years old.
ram_gh on
Blasts? Does she have a ray gun?
BigBirdsBrain on
Feels like both things can be true. Some foreign capital left, but ownership and profit flow still isn’t purely Canadian.
SameAfternoon5599 on
To be clear, every single other oil and gas producing country is increasing their output yearly if they can to match the steady/increasing world demand.
MinuteCampaign7843 on
Where did the billions of our money go lady?
jamidd on
Why does anyone give a former Trudeau minister a platform to continue to damage the country with this garbage?! The US has spent the last 30 years paying people like her to oppose the Canadian oil industry. This has resulted in our oil and natural gas being land locked and selling to them at a steep discount. If we didn’t produce the oil some other country with likely no environmental policies would do so to fill the world’s demand.
mightocondreas on
She would know best, she makes a living on climate change and works with the United Nations and World Economic Forum. She’s a pro.
TechnicianVisible339 on
She was an idiot then…and she’s an even bigger idiot now. Glad she’s a former environment minister.
imfar2oldforthis on
Of course. It’s up to governments to make sure they don’t screw people over as they’re mainly driven by profits.
It’s a weird position to take for someone who owns a lot of the blame for the way things are.
Names_are_limited on
Sorry, what corporation willingly turns their profits over to the government out of the goodness of their hearts? I’m pretty sure you would get gunned from the company for suggesting something like that. I agree with the sentiment, but the posturing is really annoying.
Channing1986 on
Nothing burger
theguyoverthere12 on
Didn’t this chick lose like 187 billion dollars of tax payer money while she was a minister?
Few-Quiet-283 on
This is an absolute idiotic and ridiculous take.
1.) She is complaining about companies (publicly traded) whose main purpose is to maximize shareholder value, taking profits to give to shareholders. That’s exactly the sole purpose of a publicly traded company, what else are they supposed to do.
2.) She also is complaining about oil and gas companies not doing their part to reduce emissions. Under what legal and regulatory obligation are they supposed to do that?
Barring regulation or legal obligation, it’s not wrong for an oil and gas company to want to expand production and thereby emissions, that’s just business, calling them out for doing what the shareholders elected them to do is crazy.
Seems like her main gripe is just with capitalism and private enterprise mixed with dodging of responsibility by government.
layzeefly on
Blasts?
Kooky-Hamster4071 on
Can we just stop hearing about this person? Unless she’s been arrested.
112iias2345 on
Environmental zealots such as McKenna’s and Guilbeault have set this country back decades.
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>“In Canada, we expect, Canadians expect everyone to step up and do their parts. But instead, we have oil and gas, which is largely foreign-owned, largely U.S.-owned, who aren’t doing their part. All they’re doing is increasing our emissions and demanding subsidies,” McKenna said in an interview while at Montreal’s climate summit last week.
>
>She adds that oil companies are “demanding that Canadian taxpayers pay the bill for cleaning up the pollution they cause and building pipelines they won’t risk their own money on.”
>
>…
>
>McKenna, who served as environment minister from 2015 to 2021, has a long list of grievances against the heads of these companies. She says they have been profiting from Russia’s illegal war on Ukraine and now the war in Iran.
>
>“But what do they do with those profits? They give them back to fat cat CEOs and then they go give them back to their shareholders, largely Americans who support Donald Trump,” she said.
>
>…
>
>McKenna stresses that increasing gas and oil production year after year is not the direction the rest of the world is taking.
>
>“From an environmental perspective it makes no sense — and economically, even less,” she said. “Energy shocks are moving countries everywhere even faster toward renewable energy which is cheaper, cleaner,” she said.
>
>Energy shocks refer to sudden changes in prices, caused major disruptions, like wars.
>
>A recent report by the International Renewable Energy Agency shows that in 2025, renewable energy accounted for 85.6 per cent of the total expansion in global electricity capacity.
>
>McKenna says she’s worried for Canada.
>
>“How about get people off fossil fuels, get them into EVs,” she said. “Why are we still heating our homes with oil and gas?”
>
>…
>
>Meanwhile, McKenna says, oil and gas are the leading cause of climate change. She accuses major companies of participating in greenwashing efforts and spreading disinformation to keep up business as usual.
Most foreign oil producers have left Canadian market in last 10 years, Shell, Total, Devon, Chevron, BP… the only players left are CNRL, Suncor and Cenovus and they exclusively operate in Canada and are owned by most Canadians. Her information is at least 15 years old.
Blasts? Does she have a ray gun?
Feels like both things can be true. Some foreign capital left, but ownership and profit flow still isn’t purely Canadian.
To be clear, every single other oil and gas producing country is increasing their output yearly if they can to match the steady/increasing world demand.
Where did the billions of our money go lady?
Why does anyone give a former Trudeau minister a platform to continue to damage the country with this garbage?! The US has spent the last 30 years paying people like her to oppose the Canadian oil industry. This has resulted in our oil and natural gas being land locked and selling to them at a steep discount. If we didn’t produce the oil some other country with likely no environmental policies would do so to fill the world’s demand.
She would know best, she makes a living on climate change and works with the United Nations and World Economic Forum. She’s a pro.
She was an idiot then…and she’s an even bigger idiot now. Glad she’s a former environment minister.
Of course. It’s up to governments to make sure they don’t screw people over as they’re mainly driven by profits.
It’s a weird position to take for someone who owns a lot of the blame for the way things are.
Sorry, what corporation willingly turns their profits over to the government out of the goodness of their hearts? I’m pretty sure you would get gunned from the company for suggesting something like that. I agree with the sentiment, but the posturing is really annoying.
Nothing burger
Didn’t this chick lose like 187 billion dollars of tax payer money while she was a minister?
This is an absolute idiotic and ridiculous take.
1.) She is complaining about companies (publicly traded) whose main purpose is to maximize shareholder value, taking profits to give to shareholders. That’s exactly the sole purpose of a publicly traded company, what else are they supposed to do.
2.) She also is complaining about oil and gas companies not doing their part to reduce emissions. Under what legal and regulatory obligation are they supposed to do that?
Barring regulation or legal obligation, it’s not wrong for an oil and gas company to want to expand production and thereby emissions, that’s just business, calling them out for doing what the shareholders elected them to do is crazy.
Seems like her main gripe is just with capitalism and private enterprise mixed with dodging of responsibility by government.
Blasts?
Can we just stop hearing about this person? Unless she’s been arrested.
Environmental zealots such as McKenna’s and Guilbeault have set this country back decades.
Why is she still in the news?
She shot them???
Thanks for your opinion, Trudeau lady.