Ten days before the COP26 depopulation conference was set to begin on Halloween in Glasgow, Scotland, the Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns submitted their Report to the Alberta government on Oct. 21.
The Report revealed that: “Total foreign funding of ‘Canadian-based’ environmental initiatives was $1.28 billion between 2003 and 2019. The Commissioner states that these figures are likely significantly understated.”
Some $897 million went to 31 Canadian environmental non-governmental organizations, nearly $22 million to 6 environmental legal organizations, and a further $6 million to other anti-Alberta resource organizations. “A further $352 million in foreign funding of ‘Canadian-based’ environmental initiatives, such as anti-pipeline campaigns, remained in the U.S.”
Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage commented: “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. It hurts people in Alberta, it hurts the province’s oil and gas sector. We have a right to be mad, we have a right to be outraged.”
Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns (https://www.alberta.ca/public-inquiry-into-anti-alberta-energy-campaigns.aspx)
It was investigative journalist Vivian Krause’s decade-long original research on foreign funding by U.S. foundations of Canadian environmentalist groups that was instrumental in getting Alberta’s Conservative Premier Jason Kenny to establish the Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns in July 2019.
Krause’s expertise and methodology were unfortunately only given lip-service by Inquiry Commissioner Steve Allan, an accountant, who hired the accounting firm of Deloitte to produce a heavily redacted 697-page report and who unabashedly exclaimed in an interview “No individual or organization, in my view, has done anything illegal.… Indeed, they have exercised their rights of free speech.”
Key findings of Vivian Krause’s relentless exposures were featured in a 2019 documentary:
Over a Barrel Documentary (2019) (https://www.facebook.com/overabarreldoc/videos/371240137168991/)
Krause in 2008 had shed a spotlight on the sleight-of-hand technique of “re-granting” foundation money in order to mask the donor identity of large established foundations and protect them from any possible legal action for their subversive funding activities against foreign governments.
Krause noticed that CorpEthics Strategic Advisers to Environmental Campaigns (originally named Corporate Ethics International), a San Francisco-based operation, had originally written on their website —"the strategy was to land-lock the tar sands so their crude oil could no longer reach international markets where it could fetch a high price.”
In 2008, a major U.S. foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, had given money to CorpsEthics which posted on their website the mandate that was given them: “to recruit the groups, develop the strategy, create a coordinated campaign, and act as a re-granting agency for the North American Tar Sands Campaign.”
Krause also identified the Tides Foundation, a San Francisco & New York-based donor-advised fund, i.e., “a pass-through vehicle that provides public relations insulation for the money’s original donors,” as another major laundromat for the “Canadian-based” environmental initiatives of the Hewlett Foundation.
