{"id":163722,"date":"2023-05-12T11:22:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T16:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/canadas-largest-oilsands-companies-being-investigated-over-allegations-they-made-false-environmental-claims"},"modified":"2023-05-12T11:22:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T16:22:20","slug":"canadas-largest-oilsands-companies-being-investigated-over-allegations-they-made-false-environmental-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/canadas-largest-oilsands-companies-being-investigated-over-allegations-they-made-false-environmental-claims","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s largest oilsands companies being investigated over allegations they made false environmental claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/canadas-largest-oilsands-companies-being-investigated-over-allegations-they-made-false-environmental-claims2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s largest oilsands companies under the umbrella of the Pathways Alliance are accused of greenwashing and making false environmental claims. via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/torontostar\">@torontostar<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Greenpeace Canada alleges the consortium\u2019s ad campaign, \u201cLet\u2019s clear the air,\u201d is greenwashing \u2014 when a company makes false or misleading claims about the environmental attributes of their business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur request to the Competition Bureau regarding the Pathways Alliance\u2019s misleading ad campaign was accepted and has set off an official inquiry into the dubious advertising practices of the Pathways Alliance,\u201d Greenpeace Canada\u2019s senior re<i>search<\/i>er and writer, Nola Poirier, said in a statement. \u201cWe think the public deserves to be told the truth about the environmental harm caused by fossil fuel production, not fed misleading sound bites by industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mark Cameron, vice-president external relations at Pathways Alliance, said the campaign acknowledges the oilsands represents a significant share of Canada\u2019s emissions and collaborative efforts must be made across the industry and with government to deliver \u201cresponsibly produced oil.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada\u2019s largest oilsands companies under the umbrella of the Pathways Alliance are accused of greenwashing and making false environmental claims. via @torontostar Greenpeace Canada alleges the consortium\u2019s ad campaign, \u201cLet\u2019s clear the air,\u201d is greenwashing \u2014 when a company makes false or misleading claims about the environmental attributes of their business. \u201cOur request to the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":678,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1497,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-energy","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}