The Climate Lens – Episode October 22, 2025

Program: The Climate Lens

Length: 31 minutes

Episode 38: Make Polluters Pay

Oil companies made the people of Alberta and specifically the landowners a deal, that if they come on to your land to drill you will be paid for it and the land will be returned to its previous state. Whatt we've been seeing for some time now with a muti-billion dollar price tag attached is a great many oil companies just taking the the profits and skipping out on those cleanup costs, leaving them instead to the landowners themselves, and to you the Albertan and/or Canadian taxpayer.

We've got a powerhouse panel featuring Phillip Meintzer, a co-founder and campaign organizer with the Coalition for Responsible Energy, affected landowner Dwight Popowich, Alberta land rights advocate and Vice Chair of the Polluter Pay Federation Mark Dorin and finally Susanne Callabrese from Ecojustice, Canada’s largest environmental law charity.

Episode 38 Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v5BR0Y027PGKmuhg-7bJvG-vyd8O3a77rCIeUlllGRc/edit?usp=sharing

Episode 38 Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14UAucf0fps2BneNkXtwNMcxfY4lFvkI8TzoRTcy7GkI/edit?usp=sharing

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