Here’s my humorous story for the day: A man’s boss told him that there is no such thing as problems, only opportunities. The employee said, “That’s great. Well, I have a serious drinking opportunity.”
If that’s the case, Canadians have a huge opportunity ahead concerning pipelines and Canadian resources. A British Columbia based researcher is making a determined effort to reveal every one of those opportunities.
Her name is Vivian Krause. She’s been working independently during the last decade, discovering the connection between U.S. charitable foundations and the environmental push in Canada. Her primary focus is revealing corruption, and she says, “There is nothing charitable about bullying Canada out of the global oil market, while oil gets produced in other countries.”
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She first started by following the money trail, where she found three words “tar sands campaign” in the tax forms of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. The executive director of Corporate Ethics, Michael Marx stated, “From the 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 higher price per barrel.”
The Rockefeller brothers paid activists to pressure the government to “bring about a cap on the production of oil from Alberta,” Krause said, and Premier Rachel Notley did exactly that. She also created the world’s largest boreal forest preserve, which the U.S. foundations pushed for, because resources can’t be developed in preserved land. Meanwhile Canadian environmental activists have been busy playing into the business interests of U.S. billionaires by becoming their pawns in this Tar Sands Campaign.
Krause says the campaign has four goals, three of which are commendable: renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy security. However, the fourth goal is to keep Canada out of the global market, and achieve energy independence for the U.S. so they can wean themselves off of oil from the Middle East.
Krause’s research shows the campaign is not helping the environment. There’s over 900 trucks hauling oil, and people are driving bigger trucks more kilometres.
What the campaign has done is add a huge debt load on to Alberta, cost Canada hundreds of billions of dollars, caused division in our nation, while oil output doubled in the U.S. And, according to a post by CorpEthics, the campaign strategy has been successful in blocking all proposed pipelines in Canada.
The Corporate Ethics Tar Sands Campaign website makes it clear its goal is to land-lock Alberta oil by blocking pipelines, so crude does not reach the international market where it could get a higher price.
A few concerned citizens have organized an information forum to be held in Kindersley on Feb. 6. Everyone is encouraged to attend and place their signatures on letters to our Senators that will be available that day. And you’ll also get to hear one of the guest speakers, Vivian Krause.
It’s vital for as many people as possible to support this effort, because we Canadians have a serious pipeline opportunity.
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