Researcher exposes money trail behind U.S.-based campaign to kill the oilsands

"Robair" said
I'm afraid I know jack about the Rockefeller Brothers fund.

They a collection of lobbyists or? How much does this fund have to do with the American government?

"Robair" said
I'm afraid I know jack about the Rockefeller Brothers fund.

They a collection of lobbyists or? How much does this fund have to do with the American government?

"Robair" said
Yes, that much I know.

I mean the current incarnation and how much they have to do with US policy.

*edit that was after Celeb's post.

Krause warned the crowd that gathered on the Tsuut’ina Nation, on the western edge of Calgary, that she would be showing rather boring slides that prove that millions of dollars in payments from multibillion-dollar U.S. charitable foundations are being made to Canadian environmental groups annually, “because, frankly, if I was just to tell you who paid whom and how much, it’s hard to believe. It comes off like a tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory.”

She also warned the IRC — which represents 134 First Nations that have oil and gas resources on their land — that if it does move forward with the exciting and potentially lucrative opportunity of buying Trans Mountain and the plans to twin that existing pipeline, “you don’t just get the pipeline, you get a foreign-funded campaign along with the pipeline.”

Eight years ago, while researching who was behind an unscientific, misinformation campaign against farmed Canadian salmon, Krause “came across these three little words: Tar Sands Campaign” in the tax forms of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (which, ironically, made its billions from oil and gas). She saw that the foundation donated $1.4 million in 2007 to Corporate Ethics, “to recruit the groups, develop the strategy, create a co-ordinated campaign and act as a re-granting agency for the North American Tar Sands Campaign,” states CorpEthics.org, the group’s website.

“From the very beginning, the campaign strategy was to land-lock the tar sands so their crude could not reach the international market where it could fetch a high price per barrel,” boasts Michael Marx, the executive director of Corporate Ethics.

The massive price discount in October 2018 of as much as US$52 per barrel for Alberta oil demonstrates that this campaign has been extremely effective. It is helping to make Americans richer and Canadians poorer. Alberta Premier Rachel Notley announced late last year an 8.7 per cent production cut to reduce the differential that was costing the Canadian economy $80 million to $100 million a day, an effective strategy that some energy executives say has resulted in deeper production cuts because of how the formula plays out on Alberta’s larger producers.

“This strategy is successful to this day,” adds the CorpEthics post. “All the proposed pipelines in Canada have effectively been blocked.”

"N_Fiddledog" said
I'm not sure what's got your panties in a bunch this time, Beave.

Apparently some hysterical slurs you found in some Alt-left blogs or something.

Your complaint is that "way too much of the article is simply spent describing how the Canadian environmental groups gets funding from their counterparts in the US" but it's baffling why that would surprise you seeing as that's what the title says the article is about.

"Researcher exposes money trail behind U.S.-based campaign to kill the oilsands"

The claim is there is a money trail of financing from US based, phony American charity groups with an anti-oil-sands agenda pushing activism against the Canadian oil sands.

What exactly surprises you about them trying to explain that do you?

Krause warned the crowd that gathered on the Tsuut’ina Nation, on the western edge of Calgary, that she would be showing rather boring slides that prove that millions of dollars in payments from multibillion-dollar U.S. charitable foundations are being made to Canadian environmental groups annually, “because, frankly, if I was just to tell you who paid whom and how much, it’s hard to believe. It comes off like a tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory.”