Foreign funded Greenpeace destroying Canadian jobs
January 27th, 2012 | By: Kathryn
While Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver was addressing an Economic Club of Canada luncheon in Toronto today at the Sutton Place Hotel, foreign-backed Greenpeace was outside delivering a message to destroy Canadian jobs.
Ethical Oil stopped by to remind people we all have a choice to make: ethical oil from Canada or conflict oil from some of the world’s most politically oppressive and environmentally reckless regimes. With so much at stake for Canada and the world, we cannot afford to stand by.
Foreign funded Greenpeace destroying Canadian jobs
While Greenpeace International attacks Canada’s oil industry, it’s cashing fat cheques from foreign backers. Greenpeace International’s funders are hindering Canada’s economic development. That means eliminating Canadian jobs. In an independent 2011 report, the Canadian Energy Research Institute calculated that responsible development of the oil sands will support 490,000 Canadian jobs by 2020. Foreign funded Greenpeace is killing those jobs.
The facts:
- The San Francisco-based Tides Foundation paid Greenpeace $200,000 to fund a “Tar Sands Campaign,” aimed at battling job-creating oil sands development.
- Last year, the media reported on a Greenpeace website intended to pressure tourists to avoid Canada, paid for by a $50,000 cheque from the New York-based Rockefeller Brothers fund — putting at risk the 660,000 Canadians employed in our tourism industry.
- Now, foreign money is backing Greenpeace’s efforts to sabotage the Northern Gateway pipeline — a project the government estimates will create “hundreds of thousands of new jobs.”
Greenpeace knows full well that worldwide demand for oil isn’t going to stop. Its Canadian campaigner, Mike Hudema, recently told a radio interviewer: “I don’t think we’re ever going to completely eliminate oil…You do need it for many things.”
But Greenpeace’s foreign backers are working to ensure that Canada isn’t supplying that oil — even though Canadians produce energy ethically, peacefully, securely and with the world’s highest standards for human rights, workers’ rights and environmental protection.
If Greenpeace succeeds in stopping Canadians from developing our oil resources and from exporting them through pipelines, energy-hungry customers around the world will still get oil: they’ll just be forced to rely instead on conflict oil from undemocratic, brutal OPEC regimes like Iran and Saudi Arabia.
We all have a choice to make when it comes to which sources of oil we want to support. Greenpeace and its foreign funders are working to damage support for Canada’s ethical oil. Those of us who support Canadian jobs — and Canadian values — should tell Greenpeace and its rich foreign patrons to stay out of our business.
