Will Suncor and TD help Evergreen make our future cities low carbon?
As taxpayers, over the years we’ve put a lot of money into Evergreen Brickworks, the parkland/gathering place, in the Don Valley (off Bayview, north of Bloor in Toronto) -- even though it has also partnered with private funders. That’s why I was upset to learn that Evergreen is partnering with Suncor and TD on the premise that they will help make our future cities low carbon. Evergreen describes itself as “a place where the world can experience sustainable practices that enable flourishing cities of the future.” It uses the word “sustainable,” yet it partners with Suncor Energy Foundation (among others) in the “Future Cities Canada”(FCC) organization (formed in 2018). There’s more: One of the founding partners of FCC was TD Bank Group and is still involved under the name TD Ready Commitment. In terms of the word, “sustainable,” TD was, in 2017, the principal broker for Kinder Morgan in 2017, helping the company to build the Trans Mountain Expansion tar sands pipeline .