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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Great job . . . sometimes trying to get a word in with Ezra is a challenge but you did great.
Looking forward to more TV as you expose these "charities" for what they appear to be . . political action groups.
So American of them to run a greenie scam.
Posted by: Mary Canpbell | 05/21/2011 at 05:45 PM
Great to see you on the air, maybe more people will stand up and take notice as to what is going on in our country. Keep up the good work, and good luck.
Posted by: Bill Tauber | 05/23/2011 at 12:43 PM
Great Stuff Vivian!
Keep the hammer down. Where's your donate button?
Posted by: Nick Walsh | 05/23/2011 at 08:55 PM
Good stuff. Scary to learn what is really going on with these so called charitable US foundations and their interference in all resource based industries in Canada.
Posted by: Heather Olney | 05/26/2011 at 11:19 AM