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Center for International Environmental Law 2h ago

🚨 Addressing #CorporateCapture is essential to maintaining trust, legitimacy, & effectiveness in international environmental decision-making 🚨

Lumpenanalyst Jun 18

#PlutOligarchy: "More than 1-in-4 senior appointees in President Donald Trump’s Department of Commerce have significant “conflicts of interest,”... pointing to the same sort of #CorporateCapture that is rampant across the administration." https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-commerce-dept-conflicts?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=68e8f2ae39-Top+News+%7C+Wed.+6%2F17%2F26+w%2F+fundraiser&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4eec7e0923-d49d6e120c-600223291

Putting 'Americans at Risk,' 1-in-4 Trump Commerce Department Officials Have Glaring Conflicts of Interest: Analysis | Common Dreams

More than 1 in 4 senior appointees in President Donald Trump's Department of Commerce have significant "conflicts of interest," according to a report published on Wednesday, pointing to the same sort of corporate capture that is rampant across the administration.

Common Dreams

LM Little Jun 13

#CarneyCons capitulation to the fascist regime south of the 49th is the outcome on almost any issue. #Canadian #stories, #music, #arts and #culture are now headed for the trash. https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/will-cancon-die-with-the-online-streaming-act/?mc_cid=83dacc4fdf&mc_eid=38eb5baa00

#cdnpoli #corporateCapture #capitalismKills #identity #democracy

Will CanCon die with the Online Streaming Act? | CCPA

Canada gives in to U.S. pressure and removes the requirement for online streaming services to contribute to the production of Canadian content

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LM Little Jun 10

@cbcnews @calgary-cbcnews For context - for 20 years Tim Hodgson worked in New York, London, Silicon Valley and Toronto with Goldman Sachs and served as CEO of Goldman Sachs Canada from 2005 to 2010. He worked with Mark Carney at Goldman Sachs and joined the Bank of Canada as special adviser to him in 2010, when Carney was governor. He was board member for Calgary-based #oilsands producer MEG Energy from 2016 to 2019. He doesn't work for #Canadians.
#cdnpoli #corporateCapture

LM Little Jun 2

Why isn't #Canada taxing #excessprofits on #fossilfuels? Why is Canada continuing to subsidize #BigOil? https://www.theenergymix.com/excess-profits-tax-on-oil-and-gas-receives-majority-support-from-all-regions-age-groups/

#cdnpoli #CorporateCapture

LM Little Jun 1

Whoa, just ramming the pipeline through - that's the #abpoli and #cdnpoli way!!!!https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/bakx-alberta-smith-pipeline-oil-documents-bc-9.7216983?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar

#BigOil #CorporateCapture

Where will Alberta's oil pipeline go? Documents reveal possible B.C. routes | CBC News

The Alberta government has considered three different pipeline routes through northern British Columbia for a new major oil export pipeline, according to documents obtained by CBC News which provide a first glimpse into where the project could be located.

CBC

LM Little May 30

"The present separatist initiative won’t lead to independence for #Alberta, but it is being used by the province’s #fossilfuel capitalists and political leaders to ensure that the present destructive intensification of extractive projects unfolds on terms that are to their economic and political advantage." https://www.counterfire.org/article/alberta-separatism-a-tangled-reactionary-web/?brid=YWdncwEIeJtbTzL6erf9TYSfMubH

#abpoli #cdnpoli #CapitalismKills #BigOil #CorporateCapture

Alberta separatism: A tangled reactionary web

Tensions between the Federal government and the provinces have long been a feature of Canadian politics, but, as John Clarke reports, the threat of breaking away has become a tool of the fossil fuel industry and far-right interests The government of Alberta has announced that a referendum will be held in October on whether or not to put separation from the rest of Canada to a subsequent vote.

Counterfire

LM Little May 21

"New analysis from Environmental Defence reveals that in 2025, the Government of Canada provided over $10 billion in subsidies and public financing to oil and gas companies and projects." https://environmentaldefence.ca/2026/05/21/new-report-shows-10-2b-in-federal-fossil-fuel-subsidies-for-2025/

#BigOil #cdnpoli #CorporateCapture #fossilfuelsubsidies #climateCriminals

New Report Shows $10.2B in Federal Fossil Fuel Subsidies for 2025 - Environmental Defence

New analysis from Environmental Defence reveals that in 2025, the Government of Canada provided over $10 billion in subsidies and public financing to oil

Environmental Defence

LM Little May 8

#Carney's "proposal suggests, without evidence for need, that #Canada should sacrifice the rule of law and our most sensitive species and #ecosystems in order to build pipelines and other projects. If approved, this proposal will take Canada back to a more dangerous, toxic and destructive time and leave Canadians facing impacts that could last for generations.” https://environmentaldefence.ca/2026/05/08/statement-proposed-changes-to-major-project-decision-making-risk-dismantling-decades-of-environmental-progress/

#cdnpoli #NeverTrustLiberals #NeverVoteConservative #CarneyCons #CorporateCapture

Proposed Changes to Major Project Decision-Making Risks Environmental Progress - Environmental Defence

Toronto | Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, and the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee,

Environmental Defence

readuncut May 8

OpenAI's CEO personally owned what was marketed as OpenAI's venture fund for 3 years without the board's knowledge, that fund invested in companies OpenAI later acquired for billions, and somehow the press treats this like normal corporate housekeeping instead of the Adam Neumann playbook at trillion-dollar scale. https://readuncut.com/open-ai-has-little-effective-governance/
#OpenAI #TechGovernance #SamAltman #CorporateCapture

OpenAI Governance Conflicts: The Structure That Doesn’t Exist

OpenAI built its brand on responsible governance. The internal record says otherwise. A web of 400 portfolio companies, a venture fund Sam owned without the board's knowledge, and a pattern of deals that keep landing in his favor.

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