Wednesday, January 18, 2012

What the hell's up with that, eh?

Not content to simply leave U.S. citizens shivering in the dark, fat cat Yankee foundations are now meddling in Canada's environmental politics. Vivian Krause reports:
By my analysis and calculations, since 2000, U.S. foundations have granted at least US$300-million to various environmental organizations and campaigns in Canada, especially in B.C. The San Francisco-based Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation alone has granted US$92-million. Gordon Moore is one of the co-founders of Intel Corp. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation have granted a combined total of US$90-million, mostly to B.C. groups. These foundations were created by the founders of Hewlett-Packard Co.

The Philadelphia-based Pew Charitable Trusts, created by the founders of Sun Oil, has granted at least US$82-million over the past decade and at least US$40-million has been granted by other U.S. foundations.

Of the US$300-million that I’ve traced, at least US$150-million was specifically for the Great Bear Rainforest Initiative, the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area and the Boreal Forest Initiative.
H/T: Captain Heinrichs

3 comments:

RebeccaH said...

It's also interesting to note that these trusts are major contributors to PBS and NPR.

Anonymous said...

Deborah Leigh said... A few years ago, Glenn Beck tried to untangle the web that is the Tides Foundation. It was impossible, because they are so complex and secretive. It was like John Voigt's character in "National Treasure" who laments that 'one clue leads to another clue, to another clue...'. But what Beck did find was frightening.

Robert of Ottawa said...

yeah, right! Just keep your stinking yankee socialists out of my country!