FISH-NL accuses FFAW of conflict of interest in accepting funds from offshore oil companies/industry regulator

October 19, 2018 Canada

The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH-NL) questions the ability of the FFAW-Unifor to hold the offshore oil industry to account for its impact on the fishery when the industry has been funding the union for years. “The conflict of interest is blatant between the FFAW and oil companies — and the conflict even extends to the C-NLOPB, the industry regulator,” says Ryan Cleary, President of FISH-NL. >click to read<17:41

(C-NLOPB), a “liaison” organization, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, FFAW and oil companies, FFAW conflict of interest, FFAW-Unifor, FISH-NL, offshore oil industry, One Ocean, Ryan Cleary

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It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

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