Thoughts on BC Politics and More

Yesterday (Nov 21 st ), according to the CBC ; Ecojustice, the environmental charity targeted by Alberta Premier Jason Kenney's government, launched a legal challenge of the province's controversial inquiry into alleged foreign-funded attacks on Alberta's energy industry . … Ecojustice (has) asked the court to halt the $2.5 million Public Inquiry into Funding of Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns, which it says was created for " partisan political purposes " …  " The inquiry has been called not to address a matter of pressing public interest, but to justify a predetermined intent to harm the reputations, economic viability, and freedom of expression of certain organizations who have opposed the Government of Alberta's position with respect to oil and gas development ", the application from Ecojustice explained. Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage “ Ecojustice alone has received US $815,000 from the US based Tides Fou...

A nd here we are back to Day Seven already, and after many posts this week, here are the seven most read during the last seven days.   From Hospital food, to a strong (or lack thereof) economy, the resource industry, wild salmon and more ... you’ll find it all here. Check them out ... see if you missed reading any of them ... or maybe you’ll just want to have another look.  First up ... the 10 th most read post of the week: #10   DAN ALBAS ... Do you believe that Ms. Wilson Raybould should have the opportunity to appear before the Justice Committee for a second time to respond to these recent statements? #9   FORSETH ... Damn right they don’t us to know , because those resource workers, and their spouses and friends, wouldn’t be headed to cash registers with products from these phony philanthropists / protectors of the environment #8   FELDSTED ... Governments continue to spend irresponsibly , driven by a fe...

Just this morning, a reader to the blog sent an email stating, “ Here it is. No comments from our illustrious leaders, as yet.   Would either of you comment on this? Thanks .” What he was referring to was an article in the Thursday March 14 th Financial Post entitled, “ NGOs, Talk about ‘collusion’: How foreign-backed anti-oil activists infiltrated Canada’s government ” While the article doesn’t really speak to anything new, it does cover, in one succinct article, how foreign nationals have been repeatedly undermining our resource industries --- and chief amongst those leading the charge to identify these non governmental organizations (NGO’s) has been Vivian Kraus. The article made know that: ... the perpetrators who meddled in Canadian elections have publicly trumpeted their success in devising and executing their plan aimed at helping elect who they wanted.   ... a group of radical American anti-fossil-fuel NGOs created their ...

Vivian Krause leads fight against Americans who have landlocked the oil sands David Staples   ~~   Edmonton Journal   ~~   November 14, 2018 It’s not often that powerful American interests are completely open about their success at thwarting a foreign economy , but that’s what happened a year ago when Michael Marx talked up his achievements.   Protesters and activists have two goals -- keep Canadian oil in the ground, and if not, then keep our oil landlocked “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 . This meant national and grassroots organizing to block all proposed pipelines.” …   co-ordinated two major American charitable foundations, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and The Tides Foundation, in their anti-oilsands fight … campaign has supplied tens of millions in U.S. dollars t...