TORONTO – Greenpeace Canada is asking on BMO to finish its partnership with the Canadian Affiliation of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) in response to the oil foyer’s publication of a 2025 federal election platform that requires a significant rollback of environmental laws and an finish to all federal regulation of emissions discount and carbon pricing.
“The oil foyer is not even pretending to care in regards to the local weather, so BMO wants to select a facet,” mentioned Keith Stewart, senior power strategist with Greenpeace Canada. “BMO can’t declare to be dedicated to local weather motion whereas colluding with an oil foyer group that’s calling for the utter destruction of Canada’s nationwide local weather plan.”
BMO lately modified its public local weather dedication from “We’re dedicated to constructing a sustainable future and advancing a path towards a net-zero world” [1] to a new model: “to be our shoppers’ lead associate within the transition to a net-zero world, enabling progressive local weather options and supporting sustainable outcomes in our position as a monetary establishment.” In both case, the oil foyer group’s lately launched election platform (CAPP’s 2025 Federal Coverage Priorities: How our subsequent authorities can leverage the power sector for all Canadians) takes the world in the other way.
CAPP’s election platform requires Canada’s subsequent federal authorities to:
- Abandon all nationwide emissions discount coverage and carbon pricing (i.e. “letting provinces take the lead on any emissions reductions insurance policies and pricing programs of their jurisdictions”);
- Weaken nationwide greenhouse fuel discount targets (i.e. “aligning our emissions discount targets with our companions and different allied main oil and fuel producing nations”);
- Repeal the Affect Evaluation Act (which for the primary time made local weather change a consideration in power challenge approvals) and the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act (which bans massive oil tankers alongside British Columbia’s north coast);
- Abandon the proposed oil and fuel emissions cap;
- Take away the anti-greenwashing provisions of the revised Competitors Act.
CEOs from 14 of the most important oil and fuel corporations subsequently printed an open letter repeating many of those calls for (with an much more particular name for abandoning the commercial carbon value). In response to media questioning, they acknowledged that implementing their suggestions would make it tougher for Canada to fulfill its greenhouse-gas emissions targets.
BMO turned the sponsor of CAPP’s annual Vitality Symposium in 2023, after Scotiabank dropped its sponsorship of the occasion (and its membership in CAPP) after a Greenpeace protest throughout their AGM. BMO is internet hosting the 2025 BMO-CAPP Vitality Symposium on April 8 and 9 in Toronto, solely days earlier than BMO’s April 11 Annual Basic Assembly the place shareholders will vote on a decision calling on the financial institution to meet its dedication “to foyer in a fashion in step with [its] help for the goals and goals of the Paris Settlement.”
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Notes to editor:
[1] As of March 24, 2025, this was the definition on their Local weather Institute web page (nonetheless accessible on the Web archive).
For extra data, please contact:
Keith Stewart, Senior power strategist, Greenpeace Canada
[email protected] ; +1 416-659-0294
