In the last year, Canadian green groups have lodged at least four formal complaints with the Competition Bureau, alleging false or misleading environmental claims by fossil fuel companies or -- in the case of a complaint against RBC -- those who finance them.
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Under Canada's Competition Act, it only takes six signatories to a deceptive advertising complaint to compel the bureau to launch an investigation. In the case of the Pathways Alliance ad campaign, the oilsands industry is promoting its plan to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions from production by 2050 -- a plan that includes spending $16.5 billion to build what would be one of the largest carbon capture and storage projects in the world.
"To get a complaint to the Competition Bureau, I think it did surprise us initially because we sort of feel we're listening and responding to what's being asked of industry," said Kendall Dilling, Pathways Alliance president. But Leah Temper with the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment -- a group that has backed three Competition Bureau complaints -- said Canada lags behind many other countries on this issue.
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