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Statement by Emilia Belliveau, Energy Transition Program Manager Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – At today’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Environment and SustainableDevelopment (ENVI), Members of Parliament grilled the fossil fuel industry about their climate pollution.
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