Good, the “we must protect the environment by using fossil fuels” ads are crazy
Federal New Democrats say it’s time for Canada to do to the fossil fuel industry what it did to tobacco companies by banning misleading ads that market the industry as offering a solution to climate change.
The NDP’s natural resources critic Charlie Angus tabled a private members bill (C-372) in the House of Commons this week. The bill would ban what the party describes as misleading fossil fuel advertising, similar to the way cigarette ads were restricted in the 1990s.
At a news conference Tuesday, Angus said Canada’s oil industry is shifting its “propaganda” strategy by promoting its products as clean and claiming they can be part of the climate solution.
“That’s like Benson and Hedges telling you that they can help end lung cancer,” Angus said. “This is because big oil has always relied on the big tobacco playbook of delay and disinformation.”
The new bill would outlaw marketing that downplays the climate-altering emissions and health hazards associated with the industry, or promotes fossil fuels in ways that are false, misleading or deceptive.
Health Canada estimates that air pollution caused primarily by burning fossil fuels in North America contributes to 15,300 premature deaths per year in Canada. The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) cites research that states fossil fuel air pollution in Canada leads to 34,000 premature deaths annually.
CAPE claims Pathways’s net-zero ads were misleading because the consortium has not fully accounted for how it would achieve net-zero emissions.
“This is false. Oil can never be net-zero because 80 per cent of the life cycle emissions are released when oil is burned,” said Leah Temper, CAPE’s director of health and economic policy.
Sustainable Sus-katchewan (our coal kills the least number of people from cancer of any coal in the world!)
Charlie Angus being unfathomably based as usual.
Can we focus on the actual day to day issues like unaffordable living ffs? It’s like none of the parties actually give a damn about the issues we’re really dealing with. I can’t afford to feed my family, I don’t give a single shit about oil ads!
It can be both
Yes, they should drop everything else they are doing and have a singular focus on the one issue that matters to me!
Food and housing affordability only affects me? Really? Most be nice being rich
The irony of this commenter not knowing how much of the inflation the world is seeing is caused by current energy related wars.
Wars of billionaires by billionaires for the gain of billionaires
You realize we can’t because to many of our people eat up propaganda so easily and fight any positive change that would actually help people themselves included.
