Inquiry Into Alleged Foreign Funding of ‘Anti-Oilsands Campaigns’ Will Soon Deliver Report

Aerial view of the Suncor mine facility along the Athabasca River near Fort McMurray, Alta., in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Jeff McIntosh

Alberta’s public inquiry into the role foreign money may be playing in undermining the energy sector will deliver its report at the end of January.

Accountant Steve Allan has been tasked with the inquiry’s mandate to examine “whether any foreign organization that has evinced an intent harmful or injurious to the Alberta oil and gas industry has provided financial assistance to a Canadian organization.” Special attention is to be paid to any Canadian organization that has spread “misleading or false information” about that industry, received grants from any level of government in Canada, or has charitable status in Canada.