Disclosure: Who Funds Vivian Krause?

Many questions have been asked about whether I am funded by a particular company, an industry or a political party. These questions are fair. After all, I'm asking the same questions of others.

This post is intended to answer questions about the employment income that I've had since I left the salmon farming industry nine years ago. Here, I also disclose the consulting fees ($17,750) that I was paid by the salmon farming industry, five years ago.

As I've said before, for several years now, I have been working from my own home, on my own nickel. I felt that the information that I had unexpectedly come across was important, and needed to be compiled. However, I couldn't find an organization that would fund me.  I went ahead and did the work anyway. Thanks to the support of my daughter's father and other family and friends, I was able to do so. Ultimately, I sold my home and have been lived since then from my savings.

Most of my employment experience is with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) with whom I worked in Guatemala (1990-1995) and Indonesia (1996-2001). After I returned home to Canada in the summer of 2001, I began to work in the salmon farming industry where I held a position as Corporate Development Manager for North America, from January of 2002 and to October 13 th, 2003. NUTRECO is a large, multi-national agriculture and aquaculture company. At the time, NUTRECO owned Marine Harvest and was the world's largest producer of farmed salmon and fish feed.

In January of 2007, I worked as a consultant to Millerd Holdings Ltd. which has interests in processing farmed salmon on Vancouver Island. In July 0f 2007, I worked briefly as a consultant to Salmon of the Americas, an international salmon farming trade organization. For those consultancies, I was paid $10,000 and $7,750, respectively. That included my expenses. I have not worked for the fish farming industry since July 31, 2007.

In May/June of 2010, I worked briefly for John Duncan, the Conservative Member of Parliament for Northern Vancouver Island.

For details about the presentations and honorariums that I have received (if any), please click here.

Last up-dated April 15, 2012.

Comments

[Sierra Rayne]

No one should care whether you are funded by one industry sector or another, or none at all. That is irrelevant information. The truth is what is important. If your work uncovers reality, then the sources of funding (if any) are not up for any meaningful discussion. Ultimately, you, and others like you, deserve to be financially rewarded for the valuable work you do. CAPP should at least offer you a full-time job bringing reality to the oil sands discussions.

[John Newcomb]

Hi Vivian,
You might be independent from BC Government, but maybe they like your "Rethink Campaign" website title enough to include it in their newsletter title,
"BC Times - Rethink, Replace & Rejuvanate: The New 3Rs
http://www.enewsletters.gov.bc.ca/BCGOVT/BC_Times/Sept_27_2011/edition

John

[Albert F Reeve]

Thank you for writing common sense about the protests against Canadian export pipelines by: Americans, Europeans, aboriginals and environmentalists. Sadly, the politics of this seem to rule our liberal tainted Canadian society. It is the age of oil which will last at least another century until the innovators amongst us find a way to fertilize our economy without producing, selling and using oil.