Mike De Souza joins our team as Ottawa-based Senior Reporter and Political Editor.
Over the past years, Mike has done some bold and fearless reporting on climate and the environment. His reporting on the Harper government and the oil industry for Postmedia News Service, achieved through deep research and investigative reporting, provided Canadians with urgent information.
Reports like these illuminated conflicts of interest and covert conversations that held industry and government to account:
- Environment Canada issued warning to Mount Polley mine before disaster, FOIs reveal
- TransCanada failed to operate Keystone safely, U.S. regulator allege
- Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said he didn’t ‘know very much’ about energy projects, emails reveal
- Canada’s oilsands strategy includes lobbying against global warming measures
- Feds say industry organized PR strategy for oilsands
- Feds spent nearly $54,000 on pro-oil lobbying retreat over two days in London, England
- Harper deploys diplomats to counter U.S. climate change campaign
- Diplomats targeted influential media to boost oilsands coverage in Europe
In 2012, an investigation Mike did into oil industry-funded research funds at University of Calgary, used to cast doubt on climate change science, received a citation from the National Newspaper Awards. After leaving Postmedia, he continued to cover the oil industry and climate issues at Reuters.
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