The province with the largest oil and gas industry in Canada sent one of the country’s smallest delegations to the international climate conference, where emissions from that industry are under scrutiny.
A preliminary list from the Canadian delegation to COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, shows that Alberta sent two bureaucrats.
Newfoundland has nine people in meetings, Manitoba has six, and Ontario has four, as does the Northwest Territories.
Quebec has 36 representatives.
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Several indigenous and environmental groups also have larger numbers at the meetings, which are leading the way worldwide to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels.
Prime Minister Jason Kenney has said he did not see the value of one more politician in what he called a “talk festival.”
But Mount Royal University political scientist Keith Brownsey said the united Conservative government has missed an important opportunity to gather information, network and tell the Alberta story to the rest of the world.
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