The Collaborative Model Takes Root in Alberta’s Tar Sands

"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)

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Oct 24

2013

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350.org / 1Sky, Forest Ethics, Foundations, Greenpeace, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Sierra Club

350.org Bill McKibben Canadian Boreal Initiative Capitalism CPAWS Dow Chemical Enbridge Gateway Environmental Defense ForestEthics Greenpeace Canada Keystone Living Oceans BC Michael Marx MoveOn.org NATSC Nexen North American Tar Sands Coalition Pembina Institute Pew PowerUp RAN Sierra Club BC Suncor Tar Sands Coalition Tar Sands Solutions Network Tides Canada Tides Foundation Tzeporah Berman WWF

How Tides Canada Controls the Secret North American Tar Sands Coalition

"Before Tzeporah Berman began her current position as head of the North American Tar Sands Coalition, Tides Canada had already established these structures to create near-total control over budgets– and therefore, most decisions– for staggering numbers of organizations. Berman was around at the time, working for PowerUp pushing forward offsets garnered by river destruction. Some of the participant organizations already had working partnerships with multiple tar sands producers. The over-whelming majority were already greased by primarily high donors and foundations. Thus, joining the NATSC meant, essentially, double dipping."

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Feb 15

2013

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Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Cameco Environmental Defense Nuclear Rabble United Steel Workers Uranium

WATCH: Nuclear Apologetics and the Left Wing Environmental Movement in Canada

"Nuclear is the rape of Mother Earth and all people living on it, I won't be silent about the complicity we have individually, in our movements, and I certainly won't be silent about the complicity of United Steel Workers such as Carolyn Egan for claiming to speak for the environment, the complicity of news sites like Rabble, and Environmental Justice Organizations such as Environmental Defense that take money from United Steel Workers. USW + CAMECO = NuKillers destroying land with mining, radiation exposure, and high level waste."

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Jun 04

2010

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Environmental Defence Fund

Environmental Defense Kerry-Lieberman Bill SOS