Environmental Group Loses Bid to Halt Public Inquiry Into Possible Foreign Funding in Anti-Alberta Energy Campaign

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney delivers remarks at the Indigenous Participation in Major Projects conference in Calgary, Alta., on Feb. 26, 2020. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says his government will do whatever it takes to rescue the province from an oil price collapse and he wants the federal government to step up as well. Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press

A court has rejected an environmental group’s request to suspend Alberta’s public inquiry into alleged foreign funding for critics of the province’s fossil fuel sector.

Ecojustice, a Vancouver-based environmental charity, applied for an injunction in July to pause the provincial government’s inquiry into anti-Albertan energy campaigns until a ruling on the inquiry’s legality is produced.