The Canadian Association of Journalists is mad at the Alberta government for trying to uncover the foreign-funded Green Network attacking Canadian oil and gas. And Friends of Science is digging down into the financial benefits the Green Movement reaps by abusing the charity tax structure here in Canada. Michelle joins me to talk about the CAJ, how green money matters, Michael Moore's new documentary, and so much more.
00:11:58.640Do the people running it have integrity?
00:12:00.280And what is the long-term view in the marketplace?
00:12:04.140And now they evaluate their investments on all kinds of ridiculous things like ESG.
00:12:09.920And really, you just have to look at the UNPRI, where the ESG guru is Al Gore.
00:12:18.660So that should tell you pretty much everything there.
00:12:21.380And then you can look at Alberta and find that the Pembina Institute is now a body that certifies ESG qualifications.
00:12:30.440And we have that in one of our recent videos, the one that's about tides asking people to shift
00:12:35.340their pension fund investments to green.
00:12:39.380So you have to see that these people are contriving the market now.
00:12:45.020They're making it impossible to get investment funds without jumping through all kinds of ridiculous hoops.
00:12:51.380That really do nothing for the bottom line for the company, but they do a lot for tying the company up with impossible barriers and things that can't really be appealed.
00:13:05.460You know, like what happens if your board doesn't have the right mix of diversity that these ESG people want?
00:13:14.160You know, can you have one person who happens to be of a certain religion, a certain gender, a certain color, and with a certain technical qualification?
00:13:23.640Will that one person be a diverse, enough, a diverse person?
00:13:29.720Or do you have to have four separate individuals with each of those characters to create your board diversity?
00:13:34.980And do those board members actually have the skill to help the company?
00:13:40.460That's the whole idea of having a board is that you bring people in who have some diverse skill set in business to offer insight and helpful suggestions for how to make the company run better and be more profitable.
00:13:53.480Yeah, it's strange how companies used to be beholden to their shareholders, the people they were responsible for making profit for.
00:14:04.880And now they're responsible to these lobby groups who want diversity quotas, ethical investing quotas, which so often means green energy.
00:14:17.280And the people who are paying for it all are the shareholders who are not seeing return on their investment.
00:14:25.320Well, it's interesting as a big chunk of the shareholder base now is what we call activist investors.
00:14:31.120And Peter Drucker, the management guru of the 70s, foresaw this back in the 70s that within the next 20 years or so, pension fund socialism would come to North America, meaning that pension funds would become the primary owners of corporations.
00:15:34.300You know, they're being processed by coal.
00:15:36.520They're being shipped around the world.
00:15:39.820They're making more pollution than ever.
00:15:41.720And the front man for it is funded by a green billionaire in the back to push his policy to make his investment richer.
00:15:48.480So, you know, it's really getting very difficult for companies to just do business for business sake.
00:15:57.000Yeah, they end up entangled in all these other issues that, like you say, are generally not good for business and good for the bottom line.
00:16:05.960Now, on the topic of money, last time you were on the show, we never got around to talking about it.
00:16:12.960Robert Lyman's report published at Friends of Science called Money Matters, the ENGO Political Advantage.
00:16:24.780Well, basically, Robert Lyman went through the CRA records of all of the 40 top ENGOs in Canada.
00:16:34.100And he found that between 2000 and 2018, they had 18 times the revenues of all the political parties in Canada and 27 times the revenues of the free market think tanks, places like the Fraser Institute and Frontier and groups like that.
00:16:52.820So the purpose of the exercise was to show that these groups are political bee moths now.
00:16:59.480We have additional reports showing that many times they're getting tax subsidies because most of them are federally registered charities.
00:17:11.000So that money is not going into the tax pool.
00:17:13.880Then they get grants from the government.
00:17:16.020And then they often grant back to a political party some of the money that they have, which that money would, you know, actually came from taxpayers.
00:17:26.920So they're diverting public funds in a way to causes that are not charitable.
00:17:35.500And these have very, very serious complications for Canadian society because, you know, again, if you look at these big ENGOs, they also usually have extremely large social media networks.
00:17:50.560So they're able to mobilize large groups of the population, whether it be voting, whether it be point and click email campaigns, but the ordinary citizen doesn't have that.
00:18:02.320And the taxpayers are actually funding these guys to do projects that are against all taxpayers' interests.
00:18:08.720And we've seen that with another report that Robert did, Prosperity Forgone, where in two years, Canada has sloughed off $100 billion in investment and many more billions before that, of course, with the Tar Sands campaign.
00:18:25.140But that $100 billion, you know, couldn't we have used that right now in the COVID-19 crisis?
00:18:32.680Now we're racking up bills that we can't pay for.
00:18:36.140And all of these policies that sent those industries packing came from these ENGOs.
00:18:43.120It sounds a lot like a money laundering racket, don't you think?
00:18:49.680Yes, I would say probably in some circumstances it is exactly that.
00:18:58.980Um, I sent you an article, um, earlier today, uh, it's published by Reuters, like an actual newswire service.
00:19:08.800Um, they've published an opinion piece by Sappora Berman, um, who was an employee of the NDP government for a while here in Alberta.
00:19:17.600And she, her article makes the case for seizing upon the opportunity of the COVID-19 crisis and the catastrophe in the economy to use this moment in time to basically phase out oil and gas, phase out fossil fuels altogether, and direct bailout dollars to green energy and basically make that the future of the Canadian economy.
00:19:41.540Well, let's be blunt, Sappora Berman is an idiot.
00:19:46.060Everything, everything that is made in this world is made with fossil fuels.
00:19:50.700If you want to make a wind turbine, you need, um, thousands of tons of coal and natural gas and oil to make and install a wind turbine.
00:20:03.940To run a wind or solar farm, you need to have a natural gas plant backing it up 100% of the time.
00:20:11.100Um, and maybe not if you're in Norway or Sweden or France where you have nuclear or hydro, but certainly any other part of the world, definitely Canada, that's what you need.
00:20:22.400And, um, you know, Thomas Reuters is also a very, uh, how shall we call it, climateer organization.
00:20:29.240They run climate change seminars for journalists in the summer, but it's not actually about learning about science.
00:20:35.520It's just learning about the propaganda of climate catastrophe.
00:20:39.340So, Sappora Berman is somebody who should be taken to task by the media and by officials who should ask her to come and explain exactly how society would operate.
00:20:49.420Because as we saw again with Michael Moore's film, he shows that every form of alternative energy runs off fossil fuels and is made by lots of fossil fuels.
00:20:59.560Instead of listening to Sappora Berman, we should be listening to Professor Emeritus Václav Smil of the University of Winnipeg, who has done 40 books or more on energy.
00:21:11.460He's very clear about the fact that you cannot run a city on solar panels, even if they're all over your house, because you just need, you know, nighttime to fall and you have no power.
00:21:23.760And, um, you know, the power grid itself is very complex.
00:21:27.500People don't quite understand how it works.
00:21:29.520And, like, Elizabeth May is saying, oh, you know, in her rebuttal to Michael Moore, oh, well, we can store the power that's made from the wind on the grid.
00:21:42.880If there's not enough room on the grid, you have to spill it into another province or territory, which is what happens in Ontario all the time.
00:21:50.240And Ontario taxpayers pay hundreds of millions of dollars every year for energy from wind that they're not using, that they have to spill over the border and give away to people in the United States.
00:22:02.680Yes. So, um, I think that Sipporah Berman should really be called to task.
00:22:08.680And I wish that people like the Canadian Association of Journalists would call her out and ask her, explain to us how this is going to work and explain it in technical detail and give us a cost benefit analysis.
00:24:14.640Every time I needed an advocacy group behind me when I'm fighting for freedom, these people are just, there's a cloud of dust where they were standing.
00:24:23.360They've given the Government of Alberta, the 2019 recipient of the Code of Silence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Government Secrecy in the Provincial category.
00:24:35.140That's weird because I didn't hear from these guys when Rachel Notley used an armed sheriff to kick me out of a press conference, but I'll continue.
00:24:42.960The award is given annually by the Canadian Association of Journalists, Centre for Free Expression at Ryerson, Ryerson of all places.
00:24:51.080News Media Canada and Canadian journalists for free expression to call public attention to governments, government departments and agencies that put extra effort into denying public access to government information to which the public has a right under access to information.
00:25:07.040And they said that the Alberta government created the Canadian Energy Centre and made all of its internal operations exempt from freedom of information legislation, ensuring there would be no transparency or public right to know what it is doing.
00:25:57.540Well, that's, you know, the whole press release from them was also very strange because they claim that the Tar Sands campaign, which is one of their big issues there, that, you know, the Tar Sands campaign information could not be FOIPed.
00:26:13.240They claim that they claim that it's a conspiracy theory anyway, when, you know, any person can go online to corporate ethics website and under Michael Mark's bio, you can see that he ran the Tar Sands campaign and he ran about, he strategized about a hundred different groups around the world, Canada, U.S., EU.
00:26:36.640That sounds like a campaign against a particular industry, doesn't it?
00:26:43.020There's the international funders of indigenous people where he gives a talk about how he is coordinating all the ENGOs and First Nations people to block Keystone XL with the intention of shutting down the oil sands.
00:27:01.280I'm not sure that you want every Tom, Dick and Harry FOIPing the information that an investigation, which effectively might end up as a criminal investigation.
00:28:20.300In June 2019, Kenny followed through on a campaign promise to create an energy war room to counter what the government claims is a conspiracy by foreign-funded interests to attack the province's energy industry.
00:28:33.280But critics say the theory behind that conspiracy has been debunked.
00:28:38.260Instead, they say the war room, which has a $30 million annual budget.
00:28:42.320I think that's been substantially cut, by the way.
00:28:44.480Is an attempt to silence those who would tell the truth about Alberta's oil patch and its contribution to the existential threat of global climate change.
00:28:58.380Oh, we're not done being crazy because there's more.
00:29:01.780In response to these developments, Amnesty International has expressed, quote, deep concern that the war room will, quote, undermine and violate a range of Albertans, sorry, Alberta's human rights obligations.
00:29:19.300As well as create a, quote, climate of hostility towards environmental human rights defenders, exposing them to intimidation and threats, including threats of violence.
00:29:32.440Well, you know, there are some people who I won't tweet anymore because I'm afraid that they're associated with Extinction Rebellion and they might just go and glue themselves to someone's door, right?
00:29:43.860So, speaking of threats, but what are they saying here?
00:29:48.940Amnesty International has been funded by the Climate Works associate.
00:29:54.120Climate Works is behind a very large global campaign called Design to Win, where they funded ENGOs around the world to push for their policies of carbon pricing, renewables and cap and trade.
00:30:07.420And one of those partners and a partner in the Tar Sands campaign is the Oak Foundation, which gave Amnesty International something like $3.5 million.
00:30:18.780The Oak Foundation gave Climate Works $75 million.
00:30:22.340They gave 350 Org at least a million dollars.
00:30:29.400They gave the Pemina Institute half a million dollars.
00:30:32.720They gave them actually more than that, but that's the one I can remember off the top of my head, $442,000 something or other.
00:30:39.020Anyway, the point being that there's lots and lots of big money rolling around and falling in the pockets of these people who claim to be advocates for human rights.
00:30:48.920What about the human rights of the oil and gas and oil sands workers in Alberta, of the coal workers in Alberta?
00:30:55.420What about the rights of these people whose jobs have been destroyed, their communities have been destroyed?
00:31:01.080Many times they've lost their homes, they're at the food bank.
00:31:20.320And I hope that the War Room is successful in finding whatever they can find on it, because the things I found are pretty disgusting.
00:31:27.760You know, Greenpeace, and I think it was 2009, got a grant from the Oak Foundation, and the mandate of that grant was that they would turn members of Parliament against the oil sands and drive investors out of the oil sands by 2012.
00:31:46.980And they pretty much succeeded by 2014.
00:32:40.060Those are apparently the human rights violators who are creating a climate of hostility.
00:32:45.860Towards environmental human rights defenders here in Alberta.
00:32:50.760Those guys out west of Edmonton taking down a rail blockade with a smile on their faces.
00:32:56.180How dare Amnesty say those things about Albertans?
00:33:00.580Well, you know, they're living in another cloud and they get their money from rich foundations and we have to work for it.
00:33:09.520So, you know, I have to say I'm always in favor of rule of law, but it's pretty surprising that the police couldn't do anything about those blockades.
00:33:18.780And one has to wonder, you know, when you look at the international funders of Indigenous people, that report that I just mentioned, the conference that they had,
00:33:27.440when there's clearly a stated open campaign to tie environmental groups and activists and First Nations activists together for a specific purpose to destroy the economy,
00:33:42.600somebody should be looking into that in terms of civil and criminal issues.
00:33:48.600I think the fact that the environmental movement is so scared of the Alberta government digging into them that they've elicited help from Amnesty International tells me there's something there there, if you know what I mean.
00:34:14.660And so I hope the Alberta government keeps digging and I hope everybody else does, too, because a lot of work has been done by citizen journalists like yourself on this issue.
00:34:25.640Michelle, I know that you have a scratchy throat and you've been talking for a half an hour.
00:34:31.580I want to give people a chance to know where to find you and know how they can support the work that you do at Friends of Science to sort of digest these bigger issues into layman's terms.
00:34:42.680Speaking of scratchy throat, I just have COVID-19, just before we do that, I would like to bring up a fact, you know, a lot of people are unaware that the IMF.
00:34:56.180The IMF, the International Monetary Fund and Mark Carney and all these big banksters who years ago and insurance companies, years ago they had pandemic as number one on the list of potential risks in the world.
00:35:13.600That was in 2008. By 2019, climate change had become the number one issue on the list.
00:35:23.340OK, so these people failed us. If you were in a job and you made that big of a miss, you would be kicked out on the street.
00:35:32.080You'd never get a job again. But no, all these people have suddenly been reincarnated as green activists.
00:35:38.740This is how we're going to recover from the pandemic that we forgot to keep on our list.
00:35:44.260We're going to use climate change as a green recovery tool.
00:35:47.940So, you know, unfortunately, these people have lots of money and power and they're going to try and tie climate to every aspect of recovery from COVID-19,
00:35:58.980which will, in fact, hinder recovery and will be as damaging as everything that we've seen so far,
00:36:05.680where wind and solar and carbon taxes send people into a spiral of debt and poverty, heat or eat poverty.
00:36:13.520And in fact, the head of the IMF, I believe, I can't remember her name, was saying that, you know, how will governments pay for this?
00:36:22.140And she said, well, you know, the good thing is there's a carbon tax.
00:36:25.160And if you have a carbon tax, then you can pay for recovery.
00:36:28.680So just as Bloomberg published a couple of years ago that perhaps carbon taxes could be between $20 to $27,000 a tonne.
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00:37:59.800I cannot recommend your YouTube channel enough.
00:38:02.040For someone who wants complicated subjects broken down into digestible parts and in a way that you can understand that would apply to your everyday life, your YouTube channel does that beautifully.
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00:38:52.380People are catching on to not only the scam that green energy is, but the scam of green charities abusing the tax credit they receive here in Canada to then turn around and attack Canadian industries.
00:39:04.980That's why they're so desperate to censor anybody who speaks out and speaks the truth about them.
00:39:12.380They want to censor Michael Moore now.
00:39:14.580They'd love to censor Michelle Sterling.
00:39:16.900They would absolutely love to censor me, but they'd also love to censor you at home.
00:39:22.420They'd love to control the internet so that you can never have access to information that debunks these green lies.
00:39:31.340And that's why we have to stand up against calls for censorship wherever we find them.
00:39:35.500Because these calls for censorship, they're pernicious and they spread to all aspects of your life.
00:39:41.340Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.