{"id":518060,"date":"2026-03-06T11:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T11:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/518060\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T11:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T11:38:12","slug":"oil-and-gas-leads-canada-in-environmental-protection-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/518060\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil and gas leads Canada in environmental protection spending"},"content":{"rendered":"

New numbers show Canada\u2019s oil and gas sector remains far ahead of other industries when it comes to environmental protection spending.<\/p>\n

Statistics Canada reports<\/a>\u00a0that oil and gas producers and pipeline operators spent $4.3 billion on environmental protection in 2023 \u2014 the highest total among the 20 industries surveyed.<\/p>\n

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The figures capture spending on staff, services, machinery and equipment used to prevent pollution and restore damaged environments.<\/p>\n

The investment by oil and gas producers and pipeline operators represents more than one third of total environmental protection spending in Canada.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s more than triple the spend of the next-highest industry on the list, mining and quarrying, at $1.3 billion. Coming in third is primary metal manufacturing at $1.1 billion in 2023.<\/p>\n

From 2019 to 2023, oil and gas producers and pipeline operators spent $17.9 billion on environmental protection, more than primary metal manufacturers, miners and food manufacturers combined.<\/p>\n

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In 2023, across sectors businesses spent the most on wastewater management ($3.6 billion), followed by solid waste management ($2.6 billion) and air pollution management ($2.3 billion).<\/p>\n

In 2023, Alberta businesses accounted for the largest share of environmental protection spending at 39 per cent, followed by Ontario at 20 per cent.<\/p>\n

This article was originally produced by the Canadian Energy Centre.<\/a> See the original article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New numbers show Canada\u2019s oil and gas sector remains far ahead of other industries when it comes to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-518060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}