FRONT PAGE: "Environmentalists backed by U.S. foundations have launched a campaign to block crude movements throughout B.C.," says Business in Vancouver

In 2009, a U.S. foundation paid  $30,000 to Tides USA/Tides Canada "To expand an outreach campaign to mobilize urban voters for a federal ban on coastal tankers." After this was mentioned in testimony to a House of Commons committee on Energy Security in Canada, and in an op-ed published in the Financial Post, (Demarketing Alberta) the U.S. foundation quietly RE-WROTE this grant. For the re-written version of this grant, click here.

The original version, is shown below:

For the full story by Joel McKay in Business in Vancouver, please click here.  Special thanks to Business in Vancouver for granting permission to post this article. 

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