Lisa Baiton

Baitton is the CEO of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP), the oil industry’s biggest lobby group. CAPP is one of the busiest lobbyists in Canada, using dues from oil companies to fight climate action. And CAPP has successfully gotten much of what they want – delays and weakening of provincial and federal government climate regulations over the years. CAPP has created astroturf groups (groups that pretend to be people-driven movements but are really funded by the fossil fuel industry), like Canada’s Energy Citizens, to try to weaken and kill climate policies. Baiton came to CAPP from the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and is seeking to to attract investment in Canada’s fossil fuel sector from around the world. She is working to keep Canada’s financial future tied to climate disaster caused by continued use of polluting fossil fuels.