From: grmerrick@shaw.ca   
      
   Reports commissioned by a provincial inquiry looking into how critics   
   of Alberta’s oil sector are funded are by and large “textbook examples   
   of climate change denialism,” says an associate professor at the   
   University of Calgary’s faculty of law.   
      
   Martin Olszynski posted his submission to the inquiry to the law   
   faculty’s website on Thursday. The posting comes after the inquiry   
   posted an update on its progress earlier this week. The deadline for   
   the inquiry’s final report to be submitted to the provincial   
   government is by the end of the month, though a spokesperson for the   
   inquiry said it may face further delays because of obstacles presented   
   by the COVID-19 pandemic.   
      
   "Forensic accountant Steve Allan is the commissioner of the   
   $3.5-million inquiry. As part of the inquiry, Allan has commissioned a   
   number of reports about criticism of Alberta’s energy sector. The   
   reports are then reviewed by people or organizations providing   
   submissions if their submissions to the inquiry are approved by the   
   inquiry, like Olszynski’s was.   
      
   “All of them minimize or outright dismiss the reality and seriousness   
   of climate change, even though none of their authors appear to be   
   trained in climate science,” Olszynski wrote in his submission. “These   
   reports are replete with generalizations, speculation, conjecture and   
   even conspiracy.   
      
   “The matter of climate change denial is particularly important because   
   it underpins the rest of the narrative in these reports, i.e., that   
   other interests have opposed the oil and gas industry — including   
   Alberta’s — not out of genuine concern for the climate or other   
   environmental impacts but rather for some nefarious — perhaps even   
   Marxist purpose, e.g. that a ‘Transnational Progressive Movement’ has   
   infiltrated governments, the United Nations and large corporations in   
   order to impose material poverty on developed nations.”   
   https://globalnews.ca/news/7580009/alberta-oil-sector-inquiry-climate-change/   
      
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