Tuesday 14 February 2012

Enviro "charities"

Vivian Krause (fair-questions.com) has been following the money trail between large U.S. Foundations and influential Canadian environmental groups. For awhile nobody paid attention, but they are now. There are questions about motives and transparency  Last week she was before the Committee on Natural Resources that turned out to be a very testy especially by opposition MP's. They take exception to the work that Vivian is doing and the facts of her research. This should information shouls all out in the open as we are told by MP's, but it's not. She has had to pay a fee to the U.S. to retrieve old tax records, none of it is available from Canadian tax records. The 100's of millions of dollars come from a Hedge Fund Billionaire and huge enviro groups.She has been asking Tides Canada, who has been the recipient of over 60 million to post their most recent American tax returns as they aren't doing that. So, it is definately NOT out in the open. All that Rev. Can. tells about the money is what it's for not who it came from. Much of the funding goes to stopping the Northern Gateway Pipeline. The Oak foundation used 16 million to fund The Westcoast Environmental Law Research Foundation that supplied Greenpeace to support the efforts against the pipeline. Some people say well it's foreign investment to support foreign charities. Actually ALL charity is to REDUCE poverty or advance education or religion. They receive tax breaks to show their good works. Charity should go to the countries that need it most. The world over needs charity, NOT Canada. Lyberal David McGinty says this is legal if the Canadian "charity" is also represented in the States.Instead of discussing the substance of the issue they prefer to deflect asking if she's a lawyer or a tax accountant. This tactic  does sway badly needed investment capital. Here you have specific climate groups swaying public opinion. The Oak Foundation funded Greenpeace to disavow (refuse to acknowledge) Fortune 500 companies to close down Alberta Oil. To get Institutional investors to not invest in the "Tar Sands" by creating a legislative ban on oil tankers on the west coast. There needs to be made categories in order to invest in.

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