Alberta to Hold $2.5 Million Public Inquiry Into Funding for Oil and Gas Foes

Alberta to Hold $2.5 Million Public Inquiry Into Funding for Oil and Gas Foes
Premier of Alberta Jason Kenney speaks to media during the Western Premiers' conference, in Edmonton on June 27, 2019. Jason Franson/The Canadian Press
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CALGARY—The Alberta government will hold a public inquiry into environmental groups that it says have been bankrolled by foreign benefactors hell-bent on keeping Canada’s oil and gas from reaching new markets while letting oil production grow unabated in the Middle East and the United States.

“They often say that sunlight is the best disinfectant. This public inquiry will be sunlight on the activities of this campaign,” Premier Jason Kenney said Thursday.