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Some more for you iggy-oi

Vivian Krause, who has done extensive research into U.S.-backed environmental groups operating in Canada, has found through U.S. tax returns that 350.org has received millions in donations from an array of rich American backers, including the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

Mr. McKibben is also buddies with billionaire Tom Steyer, who pledged US$100-million to Democratic candidates in the 2014 mid-term elections in the hopes of getting the Keystone XL pipeline killed and giving climate change a greater profile. (Mr. Steyer is also a major contributor to Tides U.S.A., which, Ms. Krause has revealed, funds several environmental organizations in Canada).

In other words, money, foreign or otherwise, is not going to be a problem for 350.org and those vowing to stop the Trans Mountain expansion from being built.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opin...worried-about/

“Follow the money,” as researcher Vivian Krauss did, and you’ll find out.

In 2008, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Tides Foundation sponsored the Tar Sands Campaign to curtail Alberta oil. The 17-page strategy paper by Corporate Ethics International is still available. A decade later, its success is undeniable. Its agenda was to “Stop or limit the expansion of pipelines, up-graders and refineries,” cap oil sands development, and isolate Albertan crude to Alberta has largely succeeded.

“From the very beginning,” the Tar Sands Campaign website tells us, “the campaign strategy was to land-lock the tar sands so the crude could not reach the international market where it could fetch a high price per barrel. This meant national and grassroots organizing [need] to block all proposed pipelines.”

What else did oil sands opponents do?

Krauss tells us: “Among the strategies employed by The Tar Sands Campaign are legal action, putting land and marine access off-limits in the name of protecting wildlife habitat, fomenting First Nations opposition and leveraging their constitutional rights, lobbying and celebrity endorsement.” If you ever wondered why Jane Fonda flew a fuel-powered helicopter over the oil sands or 150 First Nations allied to oppose them—wonder no more.

Strange thing, though, every First Nation whose reserve the pipeline passes through has agreed to its passage. So have 80 per cent of such communities even close to the route. Could the $400 million in agreements Kinder Morgan made with those 51 communities have had something to do with it?

Probably, and that’s a good thing. Canadians should decide what is best for Canada. The economic potential of pipeline construction and oil exports is a substantial benefit for everyone who lives here. Now that we know about the Americans forking out millions of dollars to hold us back, we should stop listening to the politicians and protesters they hire.

https://fcpp.org/2018/04/16/usa-kill...ian-pipelines/