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Originally Posted by Major Major
Admittedly, I am no expert on the Vivian Krause campaign against the Rockefellers, but in the snippets I've read, there is not a straight line drawn between funding activist groups and costing the province billions of dollars and 10s of thousands of jobs.
Her articles read more like frothing self-important boogeyman-ery to me. I want my GD pipeline too. Just don't see how a lengthy legal battle against the vague claims of fake charities funded by the mega rich is going to accomplish anything.
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Well if you actually take a bit of time (cause there is a lot to read and get through) this is no boogeyman soldiers in the street stuff.
This is well researched, documented and confirmed and it has taken years. Krause wasn't doing this on anyones behalf either, she was investigating a story. She nailed it.
None of this is overly new information but it most certainly has recently gotten attention and rightfully so.
This was written well over a year ago.
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It’s impossible in a brief column to capture more than a glimpse into the origins and workings of the green takeover of Canadian politics and their role in subjugating the oilsands and Canada’s energy sector. But here’s a peek at just one element.
In October 2008, American activist Michael J. Marx, representing a U.S. organization called Corporate Ethics International, based in San Francisco, was asked by two major U.S. foundations — Hewlett and Rockefeller Brothers — to recruit, organize and fund a donation “re-granting agency” for a campaign to shut down Canada’s oilsands. Writes Marx: “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. This meant national and grassroots organizing to block all proposed pipelines.”
From Keystone XL to Trans Mountain, Marx today claims success for a plan hatched almost a decade ago via a 2008 briefing document obtained by Krause. Marx says the plan is to stop growth of the oilsands “by increasing the perception of financial risks by potential investors and by choking off the necessary infrastructure (inputs and outputs) of the tar sands. We will accomplish this by raising the visibility of the negatives associated with the tar sands (and) initiating legal challenges in order to force government and corporate decision-makers to take steps that raise the costs of production and block delivery of infrastructure.”
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https://business.financialpost.com/o...t-was-the-plan
Again, this is real, its been happening for over a decade and it is ABUNDANTLY clear that they are achieving all their goals.
It is times it stops and its time to fight back.
IMO of course.