Today, I had the privilege of being a guest on the The Tommy Schnurmacher Show, on CJAD radio in Montreal. We talked about the campaign against farmed salmon, the campaign against Alberta oil and the flawed science and the American funding behind these campaigns.
To listen to the interview, click on the link below:
U.S. Funding for the "Antifarming Campaign"
Below, here's the grant that I mentioned for $560,000 for an "antifarming campaign." U.S. tax returns say that the purpose of this campaign was "..... to shift consumer and retailer demand away from farmed salmon. To see those tax returns, click here. After I raised concern about this grant with the foundation, back in 2008, this grant and three other grants for $3.6 million for campaigns against farmed salmon were quietly re-written. The American foundation, the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation, that funded this "antifarming campaign" has poured $64 million into B.C. environmental groups.
For the form letter that I received from David Suzuki in which he falsely said that he had uncovered the "fact" that B.C. farmed salmon is heavily contaminated with PCBs and other toxins, click here.
Open Letter to CEOs of U.S. Foundations:
For the letter that I sent to the CEOs of four U.S. foundations that have funded the campaign against B.C. farmed salmon, please click here. These U.S. foundations have $21 billion in assets and give away about $1 billion every year.
Related columns:
- David Suzuki's Fish Story, The Financial Post
- Packard's Push Against B.C. Salmon, The Financial Post
- U.S. foundations against the oil sands, The Financial Post
- Demarketing Alberta, The Financial Post
- Americans are meddling in B.C. politics, The Vancouver Sun
- The American gorilla in the oil sands, The Vancouver Sun
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