Briefing: SDG 13 & the Carbon Capture Boom
"There is no excuse for not identifying the political will. It is right to ask why groups like Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil will not acknowledge that projects being built at their back door."
Feb 06
20232
"Net Zero" BECCS Biomass CCS EOR Greta Thunberg Just Stop Oil Naomi Klein Tzeporah Berman XR
"There is no excuse for not identifying the political will. It is right to ask why groups like Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil will not acknowledge that projects being built at their back door."
Dec 06
20161
350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Ceres, Purpose [Public Relations Arm of Avaaz], Whiteness & Aversive Racism
350.org Avaaz Bolivia Council of Canadians Evo Morales Imperialsm Indigenous Rights Libya Naomi Klein New Democrat Party (NDP) NPDAPL Purpose Standing Rock Syria Tarsands The Leap Manifesto Tzeporah Berman World People's Conference on Climate Change
"Most vitally, this series contrasts the tiny amounts of money spent at the grassroots against the vast sums spent at the 'business' end of the non-profit industrial complex where personal data helps behavior-change B-corporation executives exercise the will of corporate philanthropists, corporations, and imperialist governments."
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)
Oct 28
20130
350.org / 1Sky, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
350.org Bill McKibben Buffett Gates KXL Rockefeller Tar Sands Solutions Network Tides Foundation Tzeporah Berman
"A Cory Morningstar writes at Wrong Kind of Green, the evil empire Buffett, Gates and Rockefeller built in the private sector is mirrored in the evil networks of NGOs they -- along with Clinton -- have constructed to provide cover for widespread environmental devastation, ethnic cleansing and Indigenous genocide committed by their corporate investments."
Oct 24
20133
David Suzuki Foundation, Forest Ethics, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Canada Christy Clark Coastal First Nations David Suzuki Foundation Dogwood Initiative Elsipogtog Forest Ethics Fracking Living Oceans Mi’kmaq North American Tar Sands Coalition Pacific Trails Pipeline Resistance Sun News Tar Sands Solutions Network Tinka Dene Alliance Tzeporah Berman West Coast Environmental Law
"Mi’kmaq struggles against fracking have taken place completely outside of the framework of large environmental NGO’s; many have stated their belief this is a huge reason for the cohesive, community outlook of the struggles. Most of the larger ENGO’s have an internal policy against opposition to fracking. The reason? Big Capital control through foundations has determined that such a campaign is not a likely “win,” and Big Capital is also involved in labelling Natural Gas– including that from “fracking”– as a “transition fuel.”
Oct 24
20130
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
"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."
Sep 18
20131
David Suzuki Foundation, Foundations, Greenpeace, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
BCFED David Suzuki Foundation Greenpeace Honeywell Royal Dutch Shell Tzeporah Berman
"Though I was actually there to assist in the setup of this event, I'd consider my betrayal here minor compared to theirs. After being more than a little suspicious of these outfits for some time I now firmly believe the ENGOs are nothing more than left-gatekeepers for capitalism and the Indian Act chiefs of the environmental movement... And so I dropped some science on how and why the environmental, settler-ally "left" is losing. After volunteering for too many muti-million dollar budget, enemy-funded foundations over the years, I think I'm finally cured."
Sep 18
20130
350.org / 1Sky, David Suzuki Foundation, Forest Ethics, Foundations, Greenpeace, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
350.org Bill McKibben Bolivia Capitalism CBFA Cochabamba NAFTA Naomi Klein Tides Canada Tzeporah Berman
"Now the rule has become this: If you have staff and are an environmental organization in North America, you are funded and directed by foundations who see “saving capitalism from itself” as the goal of environmentalism today. So what are we left with? Unfortunately, more of the same. South of the border, Bill McKibben’s outfit, 350.org, is a new face of this game. If only they were not."