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Cameron Fenton: Harper Government Can't See the Forest for the Trees
I've started to have a repetitive nightmare. The light in the hearing room is bright, hot and pointed right at me. The heat is suffocating, and I am visibly sweaty, the senator leans over, taps his microphone and begins to read questions from a typed sheet.
“Charitable” Fraser Institute accepted $500k in foreign funding from Koch oil billionaires
As the Conservative assault continues against Canadian environmental charities, The Vancouver Observer has learned that since 2007, foreign oil billionaires the Koch brothers have donated over half a million dollars to the “charitable” right-wing Fraser Institute .Fraser Institute co-founder confirms 'years and years' of U.S. oil billionaires' funding
Amidst that the Fraser Institute accepted at least $500,000 from the Koch family between 2007 and 2010, the institute's co-founder acknowledged that the US oil billionaires have a long history of donating to the think tank. Two foundations under the 's auspices – the and the Claude R. Lambe Foundations – gave the large grants to conduct “international work,” its former executive director told the Vancouver Observer.
U.S. Republican Koch oil billionaires help fund the Fraser Institute. Why the Fraser Institute?
U.S. libertarian oil billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch have poured at least half a million dollars into The Fraser Institute over the last few years.
A second complaint of illegal lobbying against the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers has been dismissed by Alberta's registrar of lobbyists. The Alberta Federation of Labour accused CAPP of illegally lobbying officials from Alberta Environment and Alberta Energy by seeking their cooperation in producing a public relations campaign on the controversial issue of fracking.
Illegal lobbying complaint against CAPP dismissed - Edmonton
Oil lobbyists approved Harper’s climate policy as ‘elegant’ approach
OTTAWA — The federal government asked the oil and gas industry last fall to review its foreign climate change policies, which were then approved by lobbyists as “an elegant” approach, reveals newly-released correspondence. The government was consulting the industry about European climate change legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels, according to an email exchange between senior bureaucrats at Natural Resources Canada. The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, an oil and gas industry lobby group, is opposed to the European Fuel Quality Directive legislation, because it believes it unfairly discriminates against bitumen, the heavy oil derived from the oilsands sector, which the government describes as the “fastest growing source of (greenhouse gas) emissions in Canada.”
Lobbyist defends shale gas industry - New Brunswick
Concern about hydro-fracking has sparked several protests across New Brunswick in the past year. (Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon/CBC)Canada News: Alberta, Ottawa, oil lobby formed secret committee
The federal and Alberta governments struck up a secret, high-level committee in early 2010 to coordinate the promotion of the oilsands with Canada’s most powerful industry lobby group, a document obtained through an access to information request reveals. The committee brought together the president of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) with deputy ministers from Natural Resources, Environment Canada, Alberta Energy and Alberta Environment to synchronize their lobbying offensive in the face of mounting protest and looming international regulations targeting the Alberta crude. Environmental organizations criticized the existence of a committee they said they were hearing about for the first time.
The Conservative government cancelled an agreement with a charity that supports environmental causes eight months after energy firm Enbridge Inc. lobbied against the deal, The Canadian Press has learned. The federal Fisheries Department said last September it would no longer use an $8.3-million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, a U.S.
Government deal with charity cut after Enbridge pressure - Politics
