Thursday, July 26, 2018

How TransAlta used a university-sanctioned research project to lobby for the coal industry


CBC news
Energy giant TransAlta paid the University of Alberta $54,000 to hand-pick one of its researchers to produce a study and other materials it used to lobby the provincial government to try to protect the coal industry, documents obtained by CBC News reveal. Story here.

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