That legislation is Bill C-59, which would require companies to provide evidence to back up their environmental claims. It is currently awaiting royal assent.

As of Thursday, it was also what led the Pathways Alliance, a consortium of Canada’s largest oilsands companies, to remove all its content from its website, social media and other public communications.

  • kbin_space_program@kbin.run
    5·
    6 months ago

    My non-legal reading puts BC Hydro’s latest natrual gas ad at odds with it.

    They not only call it “not a fossil fuel” but also claim its a “renewable resource.”

    • mski
      5·
      6 months ago

      Yep, that sounds like misrepresentation… Regardless of whether this amendment passes.

      I guess the exception being compost derived methane / biogas?