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  1. In the activist anti-oilsands game, San Francisco-based Tides Foundation (Tides USA) is a big player.
    Information obtained by Financial Post writer Vivian Krause reveals that virtually every organization campaigning against the Alberta oil industry was funded by this organization. The common purpose is to foment opposition to pipeline construction, including infrastructure essential for exporting Canadian energy to global markets.
    The payment cover letters signed by interim Tides USA CEO Gary D. Schwarz stipulated that each recipient organization agreed “not to use any portion of the granted funds to carry on propaganda or attempt to influence either specific legislation either by direct or grass-roots lobbying.” Examples of Tides USA payments dating just between June and October 2013 alone include references that indicate otherwise:
    The Pembina Foundation: was paid $225,000 to advance “the narrative that oil sands expansion is problematic, land use decisions that slow expansion, and improved climate policy . . . to provide regular briefings to the Tar Sands Group and broaden the base of key influencers.” They also received another $55,000 “for furthering awareness of the negative impacts of the tar sands economy,” and responded by releasing a report “Booms, Busts, and Bitumen.”
    The Great Bear Initiative Society: was paid $65,000 to work with other organizations to “raise awareness of the cost of an oil spill,” plus another $25,000 to “maintain opposition to oil tankers, and to increase public support against the Northern Gateway pipeline.”
    The Sierra Club BC: was paid $15,000 through the Tides Canada Foundation Exchange Fund for a project called “Our Coast, Our Call: Mobilizing and Strengthening Opposition to Tanker Expansion on the BC Coast.”
    First Nations at Fort Chipewayan: seven payments were also made through the Exchange Fund to build relationships with “indigenous solidarity” resistance and opposition along pipeline routes, including $35,000 for legal strategy and communications support “to constrain tar sands development” through West Coast Environmental Law.
    The Dogwood Initiative: received funds “to cultivate widespread public opposition to tar sands oil tankers and pipeline proposals in British Columbia.” (Note that Dogwood wasn’t paid to oppose all tankers, but only tar sands oil tankers used to export Canadian oil.)
    Greenpeace Canada: was paid $190,000 “for events that show opposition to pipelines and tar sands expansion” and “to expose the nefarious work of industry and government in order to expand the tar sands.”
    The Living Oceans Society: was paid $30,000 “to build opposition to the KM [Kinder Morgan] pipeline” and to “renew opposition parties’ commitment to tanker ban.”
    http://www.newsmax.com/LarryBell/Canadian-Keystone-tar-sands-Tides-USA/2014/04/28/id/568129/

  6. $12.45 … It doesn’t state if there was a premium for those that could sew.
    The BBC is reporting that 43 of the schoolgirls kidnapped in northern Nigeria have regained their freedom, and “some” of the school girls abducted have been forced into marriage.
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27206449
    Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch is saying, about 40 of the schoolgirls had escaped, and the other 234 have been forced into marriage.
    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/abducted-nigerian-schoolgirls-auctioned-off-to-boko-haram-jihadis-for-12-45-each
    devoutly muslim, more muslim than the average muslim, possibly more in tune with Mo’s lifestyle.

  8. If the emissions can be proved to have caused material damage then they are liable and should have to pay damages. It’s no different than spray drift from a farmer’s activity killing a neighbors fruit tree.
    The key is proving concretely that the causal chain exists.

  9. And this is why I don’t care much for the Conservative Party of Canada these days. Common sense drifted hundreds of miles away.

  11. Why I like the CPC party. 1) It’s better than the alternative. 2) They aren’t bowing to the CBC and their demands for more taxpayers’ money.
    Now the Union is pleading with Canadians to cough up the 50% extra the CBC needs. It’s only $40+ annually for each person. And, of course, it’s the big bad CPC govt that is keeping it from them.
    Why should people continue to add their complaints to the govt at a time like this when they need all the support they can get?
    Conservatives are the only supporters who demand perfection. The Republicans can’t win with their “own kind” either. Says something about small “c” voters: don’t trust them to stand by you through thick and thin till the job is done.

  14. And where does The Tides Foundation get its money?
    The letter is just arse-covering and could be defeated in court, given the obvious arguments.

  15. You’re going to have to explain that to me.
    Note that the article claims that it has to do with global warming when the facts are it’s about pollution- particulates acid rain etc. the vote was 6-2 in the scotus BTW. And the vote essentially upholds property rights across state lines – trumps individual property rights over states rights. Thomas and Scalia opposed on grounds that it was going to create a bureaucratic mess – which it likely will but also which is beside the main point.

  16. “I think that people have come to trust that President Obama provides leadership that is steady and statesmanlike,” he wrote.
    Haha

  19. It makes you wonder what the real agenda is. I do not believe it is about the environment. Canada is such a small contributor to CO2 emissions. It makes no sense. Something more sinister is going on.

  22. I’ll explain it to you. It’s people like you Gord Tulk. Its hard to see the common sense through the Legalese. The only thing the supreme court upheld is a victory for big government and rabid environmentalism. At the end of the day citizens who get their power from the power plant lose. Everyone else loses except Obama and the socialists in the EPA.
    The Conservative party grows redder with each passing day, but don’t worry you say keep voting Conservative even though its not perfect. It never was perfect but has strayed quite substantially away from the point where I don’t bother volunteering or donating. Get the message the grass roots are on life support?

  23. ‘Antibiotic resistance is now a bigger crisis than the AIDS epidemic’: Impact of superbugs means you could die from a simple scratch
    Spread of deadly superbugs that evade antibiotics is happening globally
    It’s now a major threat to public health, the World Health Organisation says
    It could mean minor injuries and common infections become fatal
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2616794/Antibiotic-resistance-needs-taken-seriously-AIDS-Implications-bacteria-evading-drugs-devastating-says-landmark-report.html

  24. Silly, over the top response that ignores the fact that at its core this case is about protecting individual property rights.
    Owning property downwind of someone’s airborne pollution should not be an unactionable predicament for the property owner.
    Due to state rights issues one state could not act against another for the same thing on a much larger scale. The scotus agreed that the EPA could intervene. The dissenters only rebuttal as I understand it is that this was being excessively bureaucratic – they did not disagree with the argument. Thus property rights have trumped bureaucratic concerns. Hard to see how that is not at its core a victory for property rights and conservatives.

  25. 75-year old retiree beaten into the hospital at border crossing. This is the police state.
    The agent there took my keys and in a gruff voice ordered me to get out of my truck, put my hands on the vehicle, and said he was going to search me. I did exactly as he said, then turned and asked him, in a calm and polite voice, whether he needed some kind of probable cause to search me. He answered “No I don’t!” Then he grabbed me in an arm lock, slammed a pair of handcuffs down on my wrists hard enough to split the skin, and pushed my wrists up behind my neck so far that my shoulders started to go out of joint. It hurt so badly I started screaming “Please stop, please stop, you’re hurting me.” I wasn’t resisting at all, but he just kept on while I cried out in pain.
    It gets worse.
    http://reason.com/blog/2014/04/30/federal-agents-beat-retiree-at-border-cr#comment_4482537
    Re: above: pollution across state lines is an area of legitimate government action-preferably by tort, not by empowering the EPA monster.
    Re: above: the CPC is worthless and its supporters are delusional and devoid of integrity or any grasp of reality.

  26. “JONATHAN SCOTT
    Should NDP trigger Ontario election? Just look to Jack Layton in 2005” (G-M)
    …-
    Jack in 1996:
    “Layton found in bawdy house: Ex cop”
    “TORONTO – Jack Layton was found laying naked on a bed by Toronto Police at a suspected Chinatown bawdy house in 1996”.
    “He came on a bicycle. I escorted him down and he went away on his bike.”
    http://www.lfpress.com/news/canada/2011/04/29/18085951.html

  29. Follow the money. Who benefits most from keeping Canadian oil off the global market?

  30. O’narcissist’s John.
    …-
    “John Kerry’s Jewish best friends”
    “John Kerry’s recent use of the term “Apartheid” in reference to Israel’s future was an anti-Semitic act.”
    “Anti-Semitism is not a simple bigotry. It is a complex neurosis. It involves assigning malign intent to Jews where none exists on the one hand, and rejecting reason as a basis for understanding the world and operating within it on the other hand.”
    http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Our-World-John-Kerrys-Jewish-best-friends-350734
    …-
    “George Jonas: The anti-Semite who saved me”
    “Neither group had any reason to act as they did, which my father said is what makes human beings so fascinatingly unpredictable.”
    http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/04/30/george-jonas-the-anti-semite-who-saved-me/

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