WATCH: Alberta’s Environment Minister Commends Leap Manifesto’s Tzeporah Berman for Helping Craft the Tar Sands Deal
A MUST WATCH INTERVIEW (02:57)
Aug 31
20162
Forest Ethics, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Pembina Institute
Alberta Oil Sands Advisory Group Capitalism Denialism Forest Ethics Leap Manifesto Naomi Klein Pembina STAND (Forest Ethics) Tar Sands Tzeporah Berman We Mean Business
A MUST WATCH INTERVIEW (02:57)
Dec 08
20152
350.org / 1Sky, David Suzuki Foundation, Environmental Defence Fund, Forest Ethics, Foundations, Greenpeace, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Pacifism as Pathology, Pembina Institute, Sierra Club, Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement Cenovus CNRL ConocoPhilips David Suzuki Foundation Environmental Defence Canada Environmental Defense Equiterre ForestEthics Greenpeace Leap Manifesto Participants New Democratic Party (NDP) Pembina Institute Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Shell Statoil Suncor Tarsands Tides Canada Tzeporah Berman WWF
"Merran Smith of ForestEthics was listed without affiliation, as was Tzeporah Berman, who worked to privatize BC’s rivers as director of PowerUp Canada, and who is slated to start work this month as Greenpeace International’s Climate Campaigner." Berman is one of many who contributed to the text of the "Leap Manifesto", an initiative founded by Naomi Klein's "This Changes Everything" project. (see photo)
Apr 12
20132
350.org / 1Sky, David Suzuki Foundation, Foundations, Greenpeace, Indigenous Environmental Network, Natural Resources Defense Council, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Pacifism as Pathology, Pembina Institute, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Sierra Club, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
1Sky 350.org Barack Obama Bill Ackman Bill Gates BNSF Capitalism CN Rail CP Defend Our Coast Discourse Greenpeace Hillary Clinton Keystone KL KXL Sierra Club Tarsands Warren Buffett
"Very few in the environmental movement wish to discuss, let alone acknowledge, the very ugly reality that the "Stop the KXL!" campaign has absolutely nothing to do with shutting down tar sands production. The actuality is that behind the protest signs (that conveniently blur lines and bear much semblance to the Obama branding campaign), we have an entire rail transport industry burgeoning to transport the oil formerly designated for the KXL pipeline. The show is over. It matters little whether Keystone is approved or not. If it is approved, we have a flourishing rail economy plus the KXL pipeline. Bread and circuses have never been so skillfully orchestrated." ...