(Reuters, Winnipeg/Toronto, 4 June 2020) Canadian oil producers sideswiped by economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic have received no federal loans from EDC, seven weeks after the first lending program was announced, government and industry officials said on Thursday. The large-employer...
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EDC is bailing out the fossil fuel industry. Will Canadians be given a full accounting of the costs?
(Above Ground, Ottawa, 4 May 2020) 2020 is a pivotal year for wealthy nations to ramp up their climate action plans, spelling out how they’ll make the deep emissions cuts needed between now and 2030. Instead, states are bolstering the very industries that must be phased out to avert disastrous...
more(Reuters, Toronto, 22 April 2020) Canada’s export credit agency will backstop loans to hard hit oil and gas producers, a document seen by Reuters showed, in the latest move by Ottawa to free up credit for the struggling energy industry. The relief comes as banks review borrowing limits in the...
more(National Observer, Ottawa, 25 March 2020) Environmental groups praised political parties for coming together to help Canadians battle the effects of the coronavirus. They also argued that the new law’s broadening of Export Development Canada (EDC)’s mandate will make it easier to direct more...
more(350.org, New York, 24 February 2020) As thousands across Canada take to the streets in solidarity with indigenous Wet’suwet’en land defenders and hereditary chiefs, Export Development Canada (EDC) is considering handing over millions of dollars in public money to the very pipeline project that...
more(Above Ground, Ottawa, 12 February 2019) In January Export Development Canada (EDC) released a new climate change policy. The policy commits EDC to further limit its coal-related investments and increase its support for clean technologies. It does not, however, put in place a clear path to...
more(Windsor Star, Ottawa, 22 November 2018) A new report shows Canada’s export credit agency provides far...
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