Stealing from taxpayers to balance the books and promote dirty oil

Feds leave $321-million unspent for green programs, overspend on oil and gas research, ads

The federal government failed to spend a total of $321-million Parliament approved for “environmentally responsible” programs last year—nearly one-third of the money that was available for that purpose—while spending more than the $438-million that had been set aside to fund programs that primarily supported the oil and gas sector through scientific research, market development and government advertising.

Details of a spending report Natural Resources Canada submitted to Parliament through Treasury Board show the department did not spend, or “lapsed” in government accounting terms, a total of $298.6-million on programs for renewable energy development, alternative transportation fuels, energy efficiency and technology innovation.

The lapses in spending on green programs or technologies that would ultimately serve to reduce greenhouse gas emissions included a further $1-million the department left unspent from $10.9-million that had been earmarked for a Climate Change Adaptation Program, and $21-million for innovation in forestry.

The $298.6-million in lapsed spending for renewable energy development, alternative transportation fuels, energy efficiency, and technology innovation was spread across a number of programs.

The department failed to spend almost all of the $22-million that had been allotted for a satellite earth observation program that the report says provides fundamental data on the “baseline condition of lands, water and vegetation in Canada” and focuses on “the oil-sands region as well as other oil/gas regions, including the North.”

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Comment..... most of the programs were science based and would inform and educate the people by cancelling them he keeps voters uninformed..... ignorance is a conservative way of life and an uninformed population votes conservative.... "the redneck theory"