Rockefeller-supported groups are helping defeat the UCP, the only party in the Alberta election committed to breaking the U.S. monopoly on Alberta’s overseas oil exports
Alberta is in the final days before an election and the backbone industry of its economy is practically broken because all pipeline projects out of the province have been stalled or ended. This didn’t happen for no reason. This was planned and is precisely what a Rockefeller Brothers Fund campaign was funded to bring about.
Canadian producers are stuck selling into the United States for whatever they get, but if Alberta is ever going to complete a new pipeline or extend an existing one, it needs a premier who has the courage and the ability to stand up to the Rockefellers and bring the Tar Sands Campaign to an end. On April 1, Leadnow forwarded an undated email sent out by Duncan Kinney, executive director of Progress Alberta, a non-profit advocacy group.
At the same time that Leadnow forwarded Kinney’s email to Leadnow’s supporters, Logan McIntosh, an executive director noted that Leadnow would not be directly involved in the election, but suggested, “With the election just two weeks away, will you sign up to join Progress Alberta’s campaign to stop Kenney?”
Does this explain why Notley refuses to stand up to the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and its campaign to landlock Canadian oil? Is this why Notley has rarely if ever publicly mentioned the Rockefeller-funded Tar Sands Campaign? These are fair questions. Far from letting up, activism against Alberta pipelines raged on and the U.S. funding continued. Rockefeller’s most recent payment on record was US$200,000 in May 2018 to New Venture Fund, based in Washington, D.C. New Venture has funded at least 10 Canadian environmental groups involved in the Tar Sands Campaign, including the Pembina Institute, Sierra Club BC and Living Oceans Society.
At some point in 2016 or 2017, Marx posted a description of the Tar Sands Campaign on the website of his organization, Corporate Ethics International . One sentence jumped out: “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.”
The Tar Sands Campaign is not the only entity that the Hewlett Foundation funds to influence the price of oil. Hewlett also funds an organization called Securing America’s Future Energy , granting it a total of at least US$3 million since 2006. Noting that the target of the Tar Sands Campaign is the oilsands and that the people of Alberta are the owners of the oilsands , and that the provincial government represents the people, the law firm identified the Government of Alberta as a natural plaintiff in potential legal action against the funders and coordinating entities of the campaign.
In hindsight, it’s clear that Notley never really intended to challenge Rockefeller. If she had wanted to, she could have mobilized the government’s lawyers or retained outside counsel and begun litigation in July 2018. How different things might be if only she had done so. “The Society worked with non-profit lawyers at Ecojustice to intervene in the regulatory review of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline and tanker project,” Living Oceans reported to the IRS.
In Judge Eleanor Dawson’s ruling that paralyzed the Trans Mountain project last August, she referred to the applicants as “not-for-profit organizations.” No mention was made that three of the applicants had received at least US$700,000 to stop the very project before her court.
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