According to its grants database, the Bullitt Foundation paid the Tides Foundation $30,000 for the Dogwood Initiative "... to expand an outreach campaign to mobilize urban voters for a federal ban on coastal tankers. I first noticed this grant back on August 20, 1010.
This grant to "mobilize urban voters for a federal ban on coastal tankers" was mentioned in my presentation to House of Commons Standing Committee on Energy Security in Canada, on December 7, 2010. This was also mentioned in an op-ed titled Demarketing Alberta, published in The Financial Post on December 15, 2010, and in The Vancouver Sun on December 18, 2010.
As of December 30, 2010, this grant for $30,000 appears to have been re-written, as shown below. The stated purpose of the exact same grant now reads, "to engage and educate citizens on the potential risks of tankers on BC's inside passage and the Fraser River."
The excerpt from the database of the Foundation Center, shown below, also shows that part of the stated purpose of a $30,000 grant from the Bullitt Foundation to the Tides Foundation for the Dogwood Initiative was "to mobilize urban voters for a federal ban on coastal tankers."
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