Call me cynical if you want, but more and more, I’ve come to believe that the non-stop (and thus far wildly successful) efforts to keep Alberta oil and gas landlocked, and in the ground, are not so much about “environmental concerns” and/or “First Nations Rights”, so much as they are nothing more or less than plain, garden-variety extortion from folks trying to get one or two more zeroes on their cheques.
In the end, it’s all about ‘Mo’ money’.
If you have wondered why the Canadian economy is 1/10 of what
it should be capitulating to the various kook groups in their in country is one of the reasons.
Call me cynical if you want, but more and more, I’ve come to believe that the non-stop (and thus far wildly successful) efforts to keep Alberta oil and gas landlocked, and in the ground, are not so much about “environmental concerns” and/or “First Nations Rights”, so much as they are nothing more or less than plain, garden-variety extortion from folks trying to get one or two more zeroes on their cheques.
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You are sort of on the right track and to figure it out, just keep following the money. Vivian Krause has done a ton of work in this area… do a search on her and then go on to youtube and watch some of interviews. A year ago, she released a documentary that was very insightful… unfortunately I can’t find it now but here’s a link to the trailer for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI8dkk3j15c
Ever wonder why when you see video of these blockades you only see a handful of folks that look like natives? Who are all these other folks and who funds them? Well, they of course are the professional protestor eco-warriors who when you follow the trail of the funding, it ends up at one of these groups….Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Dogwood Initiative (funded by the Tides Foundation and their offshoot Tides Canada), William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, Training Resources for the Environmental Community (TREC), Moore, W. Allan Jones Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts, Brainerd Foundation and, Suzuki and so on…. hopefully you are getting the picture. ALL the eco-terrorists-warriors and the natives in Canada are totally beholden to these groups because that’s who funds them. The Financial Post has done a great job of documenting this in many places… here is one of them. https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/gwyn-morgan-talk-about-collusion-how-foreign-backed-anti-oil-activists-infiltrated-canadas-government
Now why pray tell would all these groups for which the common denominator is that they are primarily south of the 49th send all this money north of the border? Well… it’s very simple, follow the money. Since Canada doesn’t have a west coast pipeline, the country can’t get their oil out to sell in the world market. And what does that mean? Americans get to buy Canadian oil at a such a deep discount it’s embarrassing and criminal. Yup… Americans are saving billions on the dime of Canadians.