It was like an electric shock. For instance, Desmog blog. Many of these operate under the Postmedia Network banner, and represent a neoconservative, right-wing perspective. Vivian Krause: Obama wasn't the only American interfering in the Canadian election, Terence Corcoran: Inquiry into foreign funding of anti-Alberta energy campaigns could shake up enviro charities, The $2 million prize to Tzeporah Berman should have stirred a tidal wave of controversy, Licia Corbella: Vivian Krause shows Canada is a useful idiot to U.S. interests with Bill C-48, Gwyn Morgan: How foreign-backed anti-oil activists infiltrated Canada’s government, FP's Terence Corcoran: A war on green 'radicals', FP's Terence Corcoran: Vancouver’s mystery Mayor. “If we are truly going to address climate change,” she said in the 2016 sustainability report, “we have to contain emissions growth and, at some point, our absolute emissions need to start bending downward. So, I asked him, ’Hang on a sec, are you part of the Tides side?’ Anyway, I would be curious for Mr. Hislop to explain some of the funding of his own operation. Krause’s remarks are even contradicted by the Financial Post story that’s linked in Corbella’s column. And that limit on emissions is an expression of our faith in technology and innovation.”. “Krause says at the end of 2012 the Rockefeller Brothers specified that its money was to be used to “bring about a cap on the production of oil from Alberta.”, “Your premier put a cap on the oilsands,” Krause reminded the attentive crowd. Husky Energy abandons MEG Energy buyout bid, blames Alberta production cut mandate, NEB rejects Burnaby request to rescind Trans Mountain orders. And his nonchalant shrug as adult-adolescents act out–and inject drugs, and overdose, and die — at Occupy Vancouver’s soiled encampment, on what was a widely-used public space downtown. Not one penny comes, or ever came, from Tides or the National Observer organization. This website uses cookies to personalize your content (including ads), and allows us to analyze our traffic. Meticulous, thoroughly documented, compelling. Krause has been touring Alberta the past few months, feeding frustrated audiences her fanciful speculations about how US-funded BC activists are behind the oil and gas sector’s pipeline problems. So, at the time, he said, ‘Yeah,’ he’s going to do this for one of these Tides publications. They’re always in publications that are funded by Tides [Canada]. offer because their energy activism was incompatible with my energy journalism.
Through most of 2011, Canadian energy officials in politics and industry watched with bewildered helplessness and some shock as Washington allowed environmentalists to seize control of TransCanada’s $7-billion Keystone XL pipeline issue.
Except, this isn’t a website by Albertans. 365 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3L4. FP Comment: The case of the missing sea lice, Kevin Libin: Environmental activists hide behind a screen of U.S. money, Vivian Krause: U.S. environmentalists are meddling in B.C. and Nova Scotia, the places where fish farming could provide hundreds of jobs, are some of the poorest parts of Canada. “That’s exactly what the Rockefeller Fund funded the activists to do, was to pressure the government to put that cap on.”. Here is her response, transcribed from the, approach to journalism in 2015. 2002 Tax Return for Theanon Foundation Showing Gift of $30 Million to HSEF Renaissance Academy; Letter from the CRA RE: Revocation of Theanon Foundation, January 17, 2013 's election, FP Comment: Packard’s push against B.C. On April 11, 2018, 630CHED’s Ryan Jespersen asked her about that article. The supposed goal of this "Tar Sands Campaign", funded by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and other U.S. charitable foundations, is to fight pipeline approvals in Canada and stop Canadian oil from reaching overseas markets. For many Canadians, their first exposure to Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson has come in recent weeks as he rose to defend Occupy Vancouver’s encampment outside the city’s art gallery — and as he waffled on the need to remove the demonstrators.
These are some of the most frequently discussed issues surrounding the future of Vancouver’s incumbent mayor, Gregor Robertson, as the days to Saturday’s municipal election count down. Pretending the emissions cap is a production cap is dishonest, at best.
Indeed, I wrote an entire piece for Alberta Oil criticizing the Observer’s approach to journalism in 2015.
Wij willen hier een beschrijving geven, maar de site die u nu bekijkt staat dit niet toe. Unauthorized distribution, transmission or republication strictly prohibited. The independent researcher has stacks of documents to prove it, Campaigners received a bonus beyond their wildest dreams when Justin Trudeau appointed one of their most dedicated eco-warriors, Gerald Butts, as his principal secretary. I never wrote the story (as Krause would know if she had simply Googled my name on the. But who will those Liberal members be? One of the big American charitable funders of environmental campaigns in Canada and the U.S., the Oak Foundation, has rewritten the publicly stated purpose of several grants to Canadian environmental groups. Take this whopper from Corbella’s column about how Texas would never allow activists to landlock its crude oil the way they have in Canada.
Licia Corbella: How on earth does a U.S. organization few people have ever heard of come up with US$2 million to give to a Canadian with no strings attached? salmon, Vivian Krause: U.S. foundations against the oil sands. site), and was never paid a cent by Solomon, Tides, or anyone in that orbit. Chances are there won’t be a tanker in sight, but there will be a party boat, organizers say. After all, she is a blogger and pro-pipline activist, not a journalist, and she seems more interested in telling people what they want to hear than what they need to. That’s the real story here. By Vivian Krause Some time before the end of this month, an expert panel appointed by the Alberta government is expected to unveil recommendations for a “world-class” system for monitoring the environmental impact of oil sands on the Athabasca River basin. The panel will propose a rock-solid science-based approach that — in the words of its mandate — will cover air, land, water and biodiversity issues, based on “credible data from a science authority, transparent reporting via an information portal, and an exceptional physical-monitoring network.”. Edmonton Film Producer Goes Outside Comfort Zone, “I remember the first time I saw Vivian Krause present her research. I’ve written several columns in the past demonstrating how Krause is misleading Albertans, and it’s worth reiterating a few things from them.
Maybe the ends justify the means for Krause. In the first one, Krause refers to a cap on Alberta oil production. Vivian Krause. About Vivian Krause CONTACT INFO At The Financial Post, they call me the girl who played with tax data and uncovered the foreign funding of Canadian green groups. interview, Alberta Environment and Parks Minister Shannon Phillips confirmed that the Notley government had not considered an oil sands emissions limit before the CEOs and ENGOs brought the deal to her in September of 2015. magazine that used two expert sources, American energy economist Ed Hirs and Alberta political scientist Keith Brownsey, to debunk Krause’s conspiracy fabulism. That’s completely understandable on their part. “That’s exactly what the Rockefeller Fund funded the activists to do, was to pressure the government to put that cap on.”, Notice the conflation between the oil sands and all oil extraction and between missions and production. The website is one of those efforts that apparently makes oilsands haters bust a gut, presenting alleged environmental adulterations as tourist attractions: an “oilsands vacation” where you’re woken up to the sound of bird deterrence cannons, kids play on “black sand beaches” while “mom lets go of her everyday stress with a gritty oil” facial and dad fishes for slimy fish in a tailings pond. Ezra Levant, a conservative political activist and controversial figure in Canadian conservative media, has covered Vivian Krause’s work on Sun TV. By Vivian Krause Canada has the largest coastline in the world and we’re right next door to the world’s largest seafood market: the United States. Vivian Krause: Obama wasn't the only American interfering in the Canadian election. They apparently aren’t proud enough of their work to put their own name on it; they pay the bills and let the environmental groups run what essentially amounts to a boycott campaign against a Canadian province. And Mr. Hislop, he sent me a– I put this on Twitter at one point that he had said that he was being paid by the National Observer and the Vancouver Observer to write a piece about CAPP actually. They stood by aghast as President Barack Obama, a captive of U.S. green activists and Hollywood movie stars, caved in to political pressure and postponed a decision to approve the project, a potential economic bonanza that promised to deliver thousands of jobs to Americans and billions of barrels of Canadian oil sands production to Texas. Notice the conflation between the oil sands and all oil extraction and between missions and production. BP’s peak oil prediction – and the future of oil in a net-zero Canada, California’s power resource challenge holds lessons for clean energy transitions worldwide, Ottawa, Alberta develop new hydrogen strategies, Deep retrofit of homes, buildings is the post COVID-19 megaproject Canada needs. But here’s the thing: Texas has 367 miles of Gulf of Mexico coastline, much of it covered with the world’s largest refinery complexes and export terminals! But Krause, Corbella, and the Herald should be held to a higher standard here. Why not invest $100 billion, instead? In eight battleground ridings, Leadnow, a Vancouver non-profit with roots in the United States, was busy trying to defeat the Conservatives.
It isn’t even something that comes from Canadians. Vivian Krause, Special to Financial Post October 22, 2019 FP Comment. More than any other initiative in the 2012 federal budget, the one that struck a chord with Canadians is $8-million for the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) to require greater transparency from non-profits with regard to their political activity and foreign funding. David Suzuki has dismissed the focus on U.S. funding as “twisted logic” and “a conspiracy theory.” Utility-scale battery storage costs down between 2015 and 2018, Cenovus, Husky merge in $24 billion blockbuster deal, How to sell the Keystone XL pipeline to Joe Biden, Canada’s share of total crude oil exported to the US grows, EIA’s analyzes electricity markets in India, Africa, and Asia, The good, the bad, the ugly of Kenney’s natural gas strategy, How to be an energy transition winner: invest $10 billion in Canadian infrastructure. The fumbling response to Stanley Cup rioters in June.
Those meetings, remember, started at the request of the companies. Not half-truths and distortions, not fully-baked conspiracy theories, the truth.