Report highlights EDC’s multibillion dollar support for oil and gas industries

(Windsor Star, Ottawa, 22 November 2018) A new report shows Canada’s export credit agency provides far greater backing to oil and gas companies than to makers of clean technology, a trend the authors contend undermines the country’s commitment to fight climate change under the Paris Agreement. Released Thursday and sponsored by a host of environmental groups, the report from the research and advocacy organization Oil Change International casts light on how Export Development Canada facilitated $62 billion in financial support for Canadian oil and gas companies from 2012 to 2017. That’s 12 times more support than the $5 billion the agency facilitated for clean technologies during that time, the report says, citing the agency’s own data.