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Canadian taxpayers have given more than $400 million to some large oil, gas and pipeline companies in recent years to support green projects that are also boosting the industry’s environmental credentials.

An analysis of federal accounting records by Postmedia News shows that Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government has offered these subsidies to money-making companies such as Shell Canada, Suncor, Husky Energy and Enbridge to pursue projects in biofuels production and wind energy as well as new technology to capture carbon pollution and bury it underground.

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Suncor: $134 million in support of biofuels production and wind energy projects.

Shell Canada: $120 million in support of Quest project to capture carbon pollution and bury it underground.

Husky Energy: $124 million in support of biofuels production and ethanol plant.