The head of Canada’s largest oil company says climate change is backed by science, and deniers, including politicians, need to do a U-turn and accept it.
Suncor Energy Inc. president and chief executive officer Steve Williams — speaking on a panel during the event in Calgary titled Bridging Divides: In Search of Sound Public Policies for Energy and Environment in Canada — said he’s unhappy with how the debate on climate change has become so polarizing.
“It is a matter of profound disappointment to me that science and economics have taken on some strange political ownership. Why the science of the left-wing is different than the science of the right-wing. Why it’s not possible for, certainly within Canada for conservatives, to take a conversation about, ‘Hey, it’s just a fact. Let’s get some facts out on the table,'” Williams told the crowd at the sold-out event.
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