Oil and gas CEOs lobbied Carney on climate plan

When Prime Minister Mark Carney met with oil and gas executives in June, he touted “partnerships” to make Canada an “energy superpower,” but disclosure reports show industry leaders had something else in their crosshairs: the federal climate plan.

On that day, and throughout the two months on either side of it, the oil and gas industry lobbied Carney and his ministers not only on economic issues, like U.S. tariffs — but also on several of former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s climate policies in the Emissions Reduction Plan, according to The Narwhal’s review of lobbying activity disclosures.

These include: the clean fuel regulations, passed in 2022, which require oil and gas companies to slash the amount of carbon pollution they generate as a byproduct of producing fuel; the clean electricity regulations, put in place at the end of 2024 to achieve a net-zero power grid; the 2018 rules for methane, the main component of natural gas and a potent heat-trapping compound; and the proposed oil and gas emissions cap, the draft rules for which were released last year.