(Reprinted from Lobby Monitor Newsletter)
Enbridge did fall lobbying blitz
January 12, 2012 - 9:22am | Lobby Monitor Staff
In-house lobbyists with Enbridge, the Calgary-based energy company behind the controversial Northern Gateway Pipeline, lobbied 23 MPs, three deputy ministers, one chief of staff and other designated public office holders this fall, communication reports filed with the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying show.
Registrations filed with the commissioner's office have Patrick Daniel, Enbridge's president and CEO, listed as the responsible officer for the firm's in-house lobbying. D'Arcy Levesque, the vice president of public and government affairs, and Sonya Savage, the senior manager of government relations, are identified as the two company officials whose lobbying activities represent 20 per cent or more of their duties.
A communication report does not specify which officials did the lobbying, or if the communication was face-to-face or by telephone.
The registration says Enbridge officials were to lobby on “bills (such as C-606 "An Act to amend the Canada Shipping Act, 2001 (Prohibition against the transportation of oil by tankers on Canada's Pacific North Coast) - measure or area of interest is the proposed ban on oil tanker traffic.”
It also noted there could be “discussions regarding the development of a national energy strategy and the approach to opening new markets for natural resources” and that the company would be “seeking improved efficiencies in the environmental assessment processes.”
One communication shows Enbridge lobbied 22 MPs, all of them Conservative, at once. Another communication shows Enbridge's in-house lobbyists lobbied Louis Levesque, deputy minister of international trade at Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada. Michael Wernick, deputy minister at Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada and Michael Horgan, a deputy minister at the finance ministry, were also lobbied, according to two separate communications.
Enbridge is also working with outside consultants, the registry showed. Ensight Canada's Jacquie LaRoque, Gregory Kolz and Robin Sears are registered to lobby the House of Commons and the Senate on behalf of the company.
4 comments:
Robin Sears?! Ex national director of the NDP and former aide to Premier Bob Rae?
Looks that way, Beijing. Oil money seems to make strange bedfellows... like Enbridge, Sinopec, Sudanese Janjaweed & Burmese generals. Oh yeah,also PM Harper and a few of his ministers, too.
Harper is one greedy s.o.b. He even has the gall, to call himself a Christian.
Harper is also a Reformer and a Neo-Nazi. His party was, the Northern Foundation Party. It is said, the skinheads assisted Harper to organize his Fascist party. This was in 1989. Deb Grey says, Harper is still a practicing Reformer.
Do we not remember Fadden from CSIS, warned Canadians of Chinese influence? BC and Ontario were the provinces specifically mentioned. Remember Campbell pitching a tantrum, because he got caught selling BC out?
There are thousands and thousands of people all over the world, supporting the F.N. People, and all of BC, to stop the atrocities of the filthy tar oil and the dirty tar tankers, in what is left of our beautiful province.
Enbridge has the absolute worst record for pipeline spills. They now have a gas leak into the Gulf. They also didn't clean up their disaster of the spill into the Kalamazoo River. Enbridge had another spill, in Wrigley N.W.T. They tried to lie and say, it was only four barrels, it was 1,500 barrels that spilled. This was during the fire in Slave Lake.
There has been seven tanker spills and ships running aground and breaking up, just recently. The Gulf spill disaster, didn't teach those fools, one damned thing.
This just makes me sick. The civil society is absolutely inutile when it comes to lobbying. All the protest and whining serves nothing...
They are literally destroying our country for oil, that makes less than 2.1% of our GDP (Energy Resources in Canada). Enbridge and any other corporation should be banned for this activity and put on trial!
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