Actually, foreign funding flows to both sides of Alberta's oil sands battle - Macleans.ca

Last month, when Jason Kenney announced the creation of a $30-million war room to fight for Alberta’s oil industry, one of the people standing on stage with him, looking on approvingly, was Stewart Muir, executive director of Resource Works, a British Columbia group that was created to rally support for petroleum projects like the Trans Mountain pipeline that will move Alberta bitumen to the Pacific.

It doesn’t matter much that the details don’t stand up to close scrutiny when the audience is primed for a good yarn. Many in Alberta, for instance, suspected that Trudeau spent $4.4 billion on the Trans Mountain pipeline so that he could kill it, right up until he announced that construction would begin this summer.

“At one level, this is the story of how American money was used to weaponize eco-radicals on Canada’s west coast, resulting in economic advantage for the good ole USA. Criminal that it’s still happening,” he tweeted on April 13. Groups like Resource Works want Canada to back petroleum, and they seem to have convinced Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer that the best way to fight climate change is to export Canadian gas to Asia, so that Asians can use it to generate electricity instead of burning higher-carbon coal. Environmentalists argue that gas isn’t much better than coal and we should be transitioning directly to renewables.

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Disclose your conflict Maher. Your long time partner is an Environmental activist that has shilled for the very groups that will be examined.

If you take money from another country to highjack Canada’s economy, you should be arrested for treason

forsyth_barb I get that businesses may need gov help now and then. But o&g in general already get hefty gov subsidies/percs. If we want jobs, concentrate on the home grown talent/biz - why give international o&g even more AB/Cdn gov funding?

One glaring weakness in your article: you summarily dismiss Ms. Krause's research & conclusions as 'unproven' without providing any conclusive evidence to support this assessment. The material she has posted can't be brushed aside so easily.

No. What a Liberal bs assessment.

$4.5 billion for the Trans Mountain pipeline wasn’t enough already?!?

Hahahahaha coming from the failed media who continues to get government support. How much taxpayer support does Rogers and Maclean’s receive annually? How many thousands of jobs do you create?

I don't see how. knowing who is funding the anti oil sands movement, would be a bad thing. I suspect that a lot of the money comes from those who don't care about the environment.

Yeah, it’d be disgusting if a Canadian industry looked for government support right? Bombardier? Auto industry? Lavalin? Mining? Fisheries? Prove it wrong, but don’t just be your usual pious, dismissive selves!

Maher explains that us Calgarians need to be on the watch out for those oil men on the lookout for gov money. WHAT a joke, we’ve had 3 companies try to get 3 pipelines built only to be stopped by the worlds most difficult regulations and land system.

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