Beware foreign influence in Canada's resource sector and elections

[Anonymous]

Greenies are working with Russia and Saudi Arabia to make energy more expensive and send our jobs overseas.



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How cheap energy was killed by Green lies and Russian propaganda



Most experts said shale gas was a flash in the pan and would not much affect global supplies. They were wrong. By 2011 America's declining gas output shot up and oil soon followed suit. The US has now overtaken Russia as the biggest gas producer in the world, and Saudi Arabia as the biggest oil producer. Cheap gas brought a stream of chemical companies rushing back from Europe and the Persian Gulf to manufacture in America. Gas import terminals were rebuilt as gas export terminals. The Permian basin in Texas alone now produces as much oil as the whole of the US did in 2008, and more than any Opec country except Iran and Saudi Arabia. This — not wind and solar which still provide only 2 per cent of world primary energy — is the big energy story of the past decade.



The Russians also lobbied behind the scenes against shale gas, worried about losing their grip on the world's gas supplies. Unlike most conspiracy theories about Russian meddling in Western politics, this one is out there in plain sight. The head of Nato, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said the Russians, as part of a sophisticated disinformation operation, "engaged actively with so-called non-governmental organisations — environmental organisations working against shale gas — to maintain Europe's dependence on imported Russian gas".



The Centre for European Studies found that the Russian government has invested $95 million in NGOs campaigning against shale gas. Russia Today television ran endless anti-fracking stories, including one that "frackers are the moral equivalent of paedophiles". The US Director of National Intelligence stated that "RT runs anti-fracking programming ... reflective of the Russian Government's concern about the impact of hydraulic fracturing and US natural gas production on the global energy market and the potential challenges to Gazprom's profitability." Pro-Russian politicians such as Lord Truscott (married to a Russian army colonel's daughter) made speeches in parliament against hydraulic fracturing.

Another writer Seoul posted about, Dianne Francis writes about foreign governments funding smear campaigns against Canadian resource industries.

[Anonymous]

Hypocrisy and stupidity are what the UN does best.



UN racism committee calls for halt to Site C, Trans Mountain and LNG pipeline

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[Anonymous]

A trip to Europe for your Mayor, which the climate change-opposing Rockefeller Foundation so generously paid for. What are they expecting in return from the Mayor and from Calgary?

This isn't the first time we've seen the name Rockefeller associated with influencing Canadian politics.

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund have been huge contributors to anti-pipeline and anti-oil sands groups in Canada.

They've provided US funds to groups which campaigned aggressively against the Conservative government in the 2015 election, groups that include LeadNow and the Tides Foundation.

It seems that influencing Canadian politicians is a priority for the Rockefellers across several of their foundations.

The question remains...why did the Rockefeller Foundation decide to send our Mayor to Italy for a conference, and pick up the tab for his travel? And what do they expect in return?

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[Anonymous]

Blockades ring hollow amid Indigenous support for pipeline



n July 2008, a meeting of wealthy American philanthropists — combined with Canadian and American environmental groups — laid out a plan for what we are seeing happen now in Canada.



If you think the activists shutting down ports, rail lines and the construction of a clean energy pipeline in Canada is the result of grassroots efforts, then you haven't been paying attention.



For the past several days, Canada's busiest shipping container port has been shut down due to protesters angry over a pipeline. Same with the busiest rail line for passenger traffic — plus significant commercial traffic.



All because of a campaign claiming to be grassroots when it is anything but.



Money generated by American billionaires has been used for years to demonize our own oil and gas industry — one of the cleanest in the world — by enlisting the help of green and First Nations activists.





It was devised at that 2008 meeting hosted by the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, ironic given that their family money came from oil and gas.



The plan relied heavily on court challenges, on using media and on finding Canadian groups like the Pembina Institute or First Nations offshoots to protest every energy development.



How else to explain protests against the Coastal GasLink pipeline that will take natural gas from Dawson Creek, B.C., to the coast at Kitimat. The project has received approval and support from 20 different First Nations communities along the route.



This is a project that is and will continue to benefit the communities it touches.



"To date, more than one-third of all the work completed on the project has been conducted by Indigenous people," reads a company statement on the project. There has also been extensive consultation.



"Since we announced the project in June 2012, our team has had over 15,000 interactions and engagements with Indigenous groups," the statement reads. "Through these engagements, we're able to listen to their views, incorporate their feedback where possible, and care for sensitive landscapes and culturally and historically significant areas along the route."



Sounds like a company listening to the local communities, working with them and finding ways to make sure they benefit.



Yet, because some Indigenous groups say they don't want this, the whole project should apparently come to a halt despite meeting all existing regulations and even having the backing of British Columbia's NDP government.



Yes, in Canada today, consulting now means everyone must agree, at least every Indigenous person must agree, or a project can't go ahead.



It's a ridiculous way to operate a country but it follows the plan from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund which included driving up costs through delays, court challenges and any other means necessary.



We've already seen this be successful in having Kinder Morgan walk away from building the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline.



Delays and court challenges killed off that project for the private sector, now the government is struggling to build it. So now activists are shutting down ports in Delta and Vancouver — as well as rail lines in Toronto and Belleville — in order to shut down commercial and passenger transportation.



The protesters claim they are in solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en First Nation. Of course, the elected band council signed a benefit-sharing agreement with Coastal GasLink and many of the protestors onsite are not from the local community, but that doesn't matter.



If you can find just a few Indigenous protestors, then Canada's media will lap that up and ignore all the agreements signed that will actually benefit First Nations communities.



There are many legitimate reasons for Canada's First Nations to be protesting, not the least of which is access to safe drinking water.



However, when the media flock to the side of a handful of protesters and give them national prominence, we do all Canadians a disservice by ignoring the signed agreements.

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Most Natives support Coastal Gas Link, but the media would like us to believe otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Progressive billionaires control this country.

[sasquatch]

Just look at the rash of pipeline protests and how drastically they have ramped up once they realize the courts are not going to do their bidding. They are now blocking trains and highways and doing it in "red face".



Do people honestly think these paid protesters really care about indigenous people? Ha! they don't! They are just one group of many pawns for the powerful groups who want to shut Canada down so they can keep their share of oil production. They have tried with the united states with even less success because the laws around those are not written by bureaucratic, bleeding heart, Politically correct dipshits. yes they can go to court to challenge permits, but they got a president that is just trolly in general and just pull and re-issue the permit to make these eco-bastards waste money and time like they do here. I think it is fucking great they get a taste of their own medicine, and that effeminate dipshit cocksucker in Ottawa will just bend down, drop his pantiloons, and let the fringe minority have their way with Canada while trudeau howls "yes massah" while wearing his shoe polish on his face.

[Anonymous]

Just look at the rash of pipeline protests and how drastically they have ramped up once they realize the courts are not going to do their bidding. They are now blocking trains and highways and doing it in "red face".



Do people honestly think these paid protesters really care about indigenous people? Ha! they don't! They are just one group of many pawns for the powerful groups who want to shut Canada down so they can keep their share of oil production. They have tried with the united states with even less success because the laws around those are not written by bureaucratic, bleeding heart, Politically correct dipshits. yes they can go to court to challenge permits, but they got a president that is just trolly in general and just pull and re-issue the permit to make these eco-bastards waste money and time like they do here. I think it is fucking great they get a taste of their own medicine, and that effeminate dipshit cocksucker in Ottawa will just bend down, drop his pantiloons, and let the fringe minority have their way with Canada while trudeau howls "yes massah" while wearing his shoe polish on his face.

One hundred and ten per cent correct. Paid protesters vs working class Canadians. Who will win? This is Canada. Of course the billionaires paying for the blockades.

[Gaon]

Just look at the rash of pipeline protests and how drastically they have ramped up once they realize the courts are not going to do their bidding. They are now blocking trains and highways and doing it in "red face".



Do people honestly think these paid protesters really care about indigenous people? Ha! they don't! They are just one group of many pawns for the powerful groups who want to shut Canada down so they can keep their share of oil production. They have tried with the united states with even less success because the laws around those are not written by bureaucratic, bleeding heart, Politically correct dipshits. yes they can go to court to challenge permits, but they got a president that is just trolly in general and just pull and re-issue the permit to make these eco-bastards waste money and time like they do here. I think it is fucking great they get a taste of their own medicine, and that effeminate dipshit cocksucker in Ottawa will just bend down, drop his pantiloons, and let the fringe minority have their way with Canada while trudeau howls "yes massah" while wearing his shoe polish on his face.

I don't understand the protests over Coastal Gas Link. Sixteen elected tribal councils signed on to it. Some hereditary chiefs oppose it. Therefore the hereditary chiefs do not speak on behalf of anybody. But, protesters are not trying to force construction of the pipeline that the majority of Natives support. They are shutting down Canada's economy because a minority oppose the pipeline.

[sasquatch]

Just look at the rash of pipeline protests and how drastically they have ramped up once they realize the courts are not going to do their bidding. They are now blocking trains and highways and doing it in "red face".



Do people honestly think these paid protesters really care about indigenous people? Ha! they don't! They are just one group of many pawns for the powerful groups who want to shut Canada down so they can keep their share of oil production. They have tried with the united states with even less success because the laws around those are not written by bureaucratic, bleeding heart, Politically correct dipshits. yes they can go to court to challenge permits, but they got a president that is just trolly in general and just pull and re-issue the permit to make these eco-bastards waste money and time like they do here. I think it is fucking great they get a taste of their own medicine, and that effeminate dipshit cocksucker in Ottawa will just bend down, drop his pantiloons, and let the fringe minority have their way with Canada while trudeau howls "yes massah" while wearing his shoe polish on his face.

I don't understand the protests over Coastal Gas Link. Sixteen elected tribal councils signed on to it. Some hereditary chiefs oppose it. Therefore the hereditary chiefs do not speak on behalf of anybody. But, protesters are not trying to force construction of the pipeline that the majority of Natives support. They are shutting down Canada's economy because a minority oppose the pipeline.

You pretty much nailed it. A fringe minority throwing a tempertantrum because they are not about to get their way.

[Gaon]

Just look at the rash of pipeline protests and how drastically they have ramped up once they realize the courts are not going to do their bidding. They are now blocking trains and highways and doing it in "red face".



Do people honestly think these paid protesters really care about indigenous people? Ha! they don't! They are just one group of many pawns for the powerful groups who want to shut Canada down so they can keep their share of oil production. They have tried with the united states with even less success because the laws around those are not written by bureaucratic, bleeding heart, Politically correct dipshits. yes they can go to court to challenge permits, but they got a president that is just trolly in general and just pull and re-issue the permit to make these eco-bastards waste money and time like they do here. I think it is fucking great they get a taste of their own medicine, and that effeminate dipshit cocksucker in Ottawa will just bend down, drop his pantiloons, and let the fringe minority have their way with Canada while trudeau howls "yes massah" while wearing his shoe polish on his face.

I don't understand the protests over Coastal Gas Link. Sixteen elected tribal councils signed on to it. Some hereditary chiefs oppose it. Therefore the hereditary chiefs do not speak on behalf of anybody. But, protesters are not trying to force construction of the pipeline that the majority of Natives support. They are shutting down Canada's economy because a minority oppose the pipeline.

You pretty much nailed it. A fringe minority throwing a tempertantrum because they are not about to get their way.

Canada's economy could shut down with the rail blockades in Eastern Canada. Justin Trudeau should immediately return to Canada, hold an emergency cabinet meeting and use whatever means are necessary to enforce the rule of law so goods can move. His UN butt kissing trip can wait. His country needs leadership. That is what Netanyahu would do.

[Anonymous]

Canada's economy under Trudeau is purposely fragile. We will quickly move to recession if we don't get some leadership who will enforce the rule of law.

 

By Anthony Furey



Powerless against protesters

Vocal minority who hardly speak for First Nations grinding our country to a halt



What a message that's been sent this past week from the police and from the politicians. The message is simple: If you masquerade as the voice of Canada's First Nations, you can break the law with impunity.



Canadians have been frustrated to see rail travel slowly grind to a halt as we get well into the second week of lawless protest. They were also shocked to see B.C. cabinet ministers denied entry to their place of work by protesters and to watch Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland get blocked from accessing a Halifax government building. Just who is in charge of this country?



On Thursday, CN Rail announced it was slowly shutting down its entire eastern network while Via Rail cancelled all of its service on CN tracks across the country.



The longest blockade to date has been in the Belleville, Ont., region by Mohawk protesters who say they are acting in solidarity with those few Wet'suwet'en protesters who oppose the Coastal GasLink project in British Columbia. (Most Wet'suwet'en support it. More on that later.)



The Ontario courts have, to date, issued multiple court injunctions requesting the law be enforced, but the Ontario Provincial Police have opted to ignore these injunctions.



Once the first injunction isn't enforced, that becomes the green light for activists to go ahead and cause whatever havoc they want, knowing they are now untouchable.



As I wrote in a recent column, back in 2013, Ontario Superior Court Justice David Brown issued a word of warning after similar injunctions weren't enforced: "Such an approach by the OPP was most disappointing because it undercut the practical effect of the injunction order. That kind of passivity by the police leads me to doubt that a future exists in this province for the use of court injunctions in cases of public demonstrations."



: If 80% of Wet'suwet'en people support the Coastal GasLink pipeline, shouldn't 80% of your interviews by with pipeline supporters?" The Coalition is a group of chiefs who represents prodevelopment communities. And the quote is a social media post from the First Nations LNG Alliance, a similar progrowth organization.



A good memo for reporters and media. It also needs to be sent to our politicians and politically cowed law enforcement.

[Anonymous]

How dare she!



With this country's rail system in turmoil for two weeks, the world's most famous climate activist has thrown her support behind the group responsible for the #shutdownCanada movement.



And Greta Thunberg did not stop there.



The 17-year-old Swede, who visited Canada last fall, has solicited others from around the world to join in. To her 4 million Twitter followers, she tweeted Tuesday: "Support the Wet'suwet'en Nation and the pipeline protests happening now in Canada! #WetsuwenStrong."



In her tweet, she even offered a link to the "Wet'suwet'en Supporter Toolkit 2020," which encourages people to "take action, come to the land, fundraise, educate, build solidarity, pressure the government" and, of course "donate."



The link Time magazine's Person of the Year in 2019 promoted also has messaging of "revolution" and halting Canadian commerce.

[Anonymous]

More on the blockades



Things may not be as they seem.



That was the message from B.C. Opposition MLA Ellis Ross — an elected chief councillor of the Haisla Nation — Wednesday as political and economic pressure to end rail blockades increased.



"It's not (the Wet'suwet'en) behind the shutdown," Ross told the Toronto Sun.



As to who really speaks for the Wet'suwet'en, "it's hard to say," the Liberal MLA said. "I don't think they've been given any process to determine who speaks for them ... Every band has its own leadership structure."



According to Ross, [size=150]there are many organizations taking donations and setting up GoFundMe campaigns that are manipulating the pipeline protest to further agendas that "have no interest in the betterment of aboriginals."[/size]



[size=150]"Look at their fundraisers in the United States, their agenda is to stop fossil fuel use," said Ross, who added that some organizations are playing on a "white guilt complex."

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But the term reconciliation is now being used by thirdparty organizations to "pit First Nations against First Nations," he said.



Ross insisted those who argue the government forced the pipeline without proper consent on First Nations are wrong.



"It has been 15 years of consultations," he said, adding that there are real economic benefits the pipeline would provide members of the Haisla Nation.

[Anonymous]

The Alberta government finally released their report on foreign funding of Canadian anti oil campaigns. Their NDP opposed it. Follow the money trail and you will see the same anti Alberta oil campaigns also gave money to the Alberta NDP.



Foreign donors opened wallets to 'hurt' Alberta energy sector: Report

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'We have a right to be outraged,' said Energy Minister Sonya Savage of the scale of foreign funds aimed at damaging the oil and gas industry



EDMONTON — The inquiry launched by Alberta Premier Jason Kenney's government into the scale of foreign funds aimed at damaging the province's oil and gas industry has issued its long-awaited report, finding that foreign donors provided nearly $1.3 billion in funds for Canadian environmental campaigns between 2003 and 2019.



However, compiled over two years by Calgary accountant Steve Allan, the report was only able to directly link far smaller amounts of money to anti-Alberta energy activities, with few conclusions drawn about what activities the money was actually used for.



"It cannot be suggested that all funding designated for Canadian environmental initiatives was intended to support anti-Alberta energy campaigns, although most certainly some of it was," the report notes.



The report fulfils a major election promise by Kenney's United Conservative Party and lays out the extensive network of environmental organizations, and some of their funding sources, that have sought to limit the growth — or shut down entirely — Alberta's oil and gas sector.



"From my perspective, I was surprised at how much we found, how co-ordinated and sophisticated and well-funded these campaigns were," said Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage in an interview. "It was a lot of money, coming from across the border, from foreign jurisdictions that came in to influence domestic policy, to influence legislation and regulatory matters, policy, and we should care about that."



Said Savage: "It's about finding and documenting a piece of history — an important piece of history that harmed Alberta — and understanding what the tactics were, what happened. I'm more interested in looking to the future and making sure we learn from that."



In spite of the controversy that dogged the inquiry, the report, released Thursday morning in Edmonton, did make a number of financial findings, while stating clearly no wrongdoing was found over the course of the investigation.



Of the $1.3 billion found to be donated by foreign groups, $897 million went to 31 Canadian environmental non-governmental organizations, nearly $22 million to six environmental legal organizations, and a further $6 million to other anti-Alberta resource organizations. A further $352 million, the report says, remained within the United States, but "focused on Canadian-based environmental initiatives."



Allan's inquiry identifies just 21 groups that have been engaged in anti-Alberta energy activities, deemed "participants" by the report.



That list includes well-known Canadian organization such as the David Suzuki Foundation, Greenpeace Canada and Sierra Club Canada Foundation, all of which have loudly, and publicly, opposed energy projects in Canada. (The identities of the additional non-participants, which are still foreign funded, are redacted within the Allan inquiry report.)



From the overall $1.3 billion, the report identifies just $54.1 million in foreign funds that were given specifically for "anti-Alberta resource development activity."



A chart detailing the funds given by foreign funders to the 21 "participant" organizations totals nearly $152 million, between 2003 and 2019.



The report also found $145 million in public funding, from all levels of government in Canada, to groups that the inquiry believes engaged in anti-Alberta energy activities.



"It hurts people in Alberta, it hurts the province's oil and gas sector," said Savage. "We have a right to be mad, we have a right to be outraged."



At a Thursday press conference, Savage said that while no illegal behaviour was found, she believes that Albertans feel that accepting foreign funding for anti-energy activism would be wrong.



"The report was never meant to be something that would censure or impugn or punish," Savage said. "It doesn't impact or detract from the fact that Albertans were hurt, people lost their jobs."



Given all these findings, Allan makes six recommendations to government. A number of them are adjacent to the specific findings of the inquiry, including one to "create an opportunity for meaningful dialogue among First Nations communities, and between First Nations Communities and other Albertans and Canadians to advance understanding and reconciliation with a focus on economic development."



Another suggests bringing together stakeholder groups to advance Alberta "as a leader in energy science ... to produce low-cost, low-carbon energy supplies."



That's an effort that, presumably, would work in conjunction with a Natural Resource Development Strategy for Canada, and a re-brand of Alberta energy.



Allan also makes a recommendation for funding transparency. He proposes updating standards for not-for-profit and charitable organizations that "provide a level of consistency and a more level playing field with the corporate sector."



"I am also troubled by the almost unfettered ability of any organization, or group, to advance their self-interest without full transparency and accountability,' Allan writes.



Savage said some of these suggestions — such as updating charitable reporting — would require co-operation from the federal government.



"The main thing here is we have to make sure that these types of campaigns don't target energy sources of the future," said Savage. "It's money looking for a cause and it's money looking for the next thing to oppose, so we have to be smarter, going forward."