{"id":1825,"date":"2014-11-19T19:37:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T00:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2014-11-19T19:37:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T00:37:04","slug":"industry-funded-vivian-krause-uses-classic-dirty-pr-tactics-to-distract-from-canadas-real-energy-debate-desmog-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1825","title":{"rendered":"Industry-Funded Vivian Krause Uses Classic Dirty PR Tactics to Distract from Canada&#8217;s Real Energy Debate | DeSmog Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmog.ca\/2014\/11\/19\/industry-funded-vivian-krause-uses-classic-dirty-pr-tactics-distract-canada-real-energy-debate\">Industry-Funded Vivian Krause Uses Classic Dirty PR Tactics to Distract from Canada&#8217;s Real Energy Debate | DeSmog Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #d81b22; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.desmog.ca\/vivian-krause\"><strong style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">Vivian Krause<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0has spent years scrutinizing how Canadian environmental groups are funded, claiming she&#8217;s just asking \u201cfair\u00a0questions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">But as the blogger-turned-newspaper-columnist has run rampant with her conspiracy theory that American charitable foundations&#8217; support of Canadian environmental groups is nefarious, she has continually avoided seeking a fair\u00a0answer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">If Krause were seeking a fair answer, she&#8217;d quickly learn that both investment dollars and philanthropic dollars cross borders all the time. There isn\u2019t anything special or surprising about environmental groups receiving funding from\u00a0<span class=\"caps\" style=\"font-size: 0.9em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">U.S.<\/span>\u00a0foundations that share their goals \u2014 especially when the increasingly global nature of environmental challenges, particularly climate change, is taken into\u00a0consideration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">Despite this common-sense answer, Krause\u2019s strategy has effectively diverted attention away from genuine debate of environmental issues, while simultaneously undermining the important role environmental groups play in Canadian\u00a0society.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industry-Funded Vivian Krause Uses Classic Dirty PR Tactics to Distract from Canada&#8217;s Real Energy Debate | DeSmog Canada. Vivian Krause\u00a0has spent years scrutinizing how Canadian environmental groups are funded, claiming she&#8217;s just asking \u201cfair\u00a0questions.\u201d But as the blogger-turned-newspaper-columnist has run rampant with her conspiracy theory that American charitable foundations&#8217; support of Canadian environmental groups is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1279,1277,1278,655,1276],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-diversion-strategy","tag-environmental-groups","tag-oil-industry","tag-propaganda","tag-vivian-krause"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1826,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions\/1826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}