Environmental groups targeted by Alberta Premier Jason Kenney are shrugging off the new government’s promised $30-million “war room” to fight criticisms of the province’s energy industry.
Both groups have been singled out by Kenney as examples of ones distorting the truth about the impact of the oilsands. The premier has said government staff will be tasked with responding quickly to what he calls myths and lies. Environmental groups have already been discussing informally what the United Conservative government might have in mind and how they should react.
Dyer and Stewart said their groups are about 85 per cent funded by Canadians. The Pembina Institute was founded in Drayton Valley, Alta., and its headquarters remain in Calgary.“A lot of the rhetoric around our work and our contribution to Alberta has been based on complete misinformation,” said Dyer, who pointed out Pembina has worked with virtually every major energy company in the province.
OH NO!! THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS SAID THAT THAT'S TERRIBLE!! HOW WILL HE EVER RECOVER FROM ah, I can't keep this up. I still can't believe this is a story. 2 likes. That's about right.
'Stewart called the threats a rerun of the 2012 campaign against environmental groups fuelled by the right-wing The Rebel media group ' Amazing how an outfit started in 2015 was doing this! And here I was thinking that the TheRebelTV were busy inventing the ipod that month?
Talk about amateur hour, let's look at the last 3.5 years with the liberal party trying to govern our once great nation. Now that's an amateur team led by a clown who most likely can't even make a decision on what hair gel to use and then blame wife for picking the wrong one.
Environmentalists say.... Pffft
We should have become American states 150 years ago:now we would be prospering!
I thought only federally funded CBC reported the liberal narrative , hmm disappointed National post
Some environmental groups have been paid off for years. Who cares about their opinions and why is the National Post catering? What a sad rag. No wonder they won't be around much longer.
Corrected Headline: Foreign Funded Environmentalists say Alberta government war room threat 'amateur hour'
I read Greenpeace and Pembina Institute and checked out.
It must suck being a trained environmentalist and realizing it’s all based on a lie. China’s emissions dwarf Canada’s and they’re building another 700 coal plants. Canada doesn’t have an emissions problem, China does. cdnpoli onpoli
Every one of these organizations and the foreign ones that provide support to them should be facing charges related to economic sabotage and terrorism They knowingly set out to destroy the Canadian economy and should be held accountable for doing so