Charity Slams Foreign-Funded Radicals Panel – The Energy Mix
Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party government is taking fire from one of the province’s most established philanthropic institutions, with the Edmonton-based Muttart Foundation declaring that Alberta’s inquiry into supposed foreign funding of anti-fossil advocacy is polarizing, undemocratic, and unfounded.
The Public Inquiry Into Funding of Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns is creating a “climate of fear” that there is a price to be paid for disagreeing with the government, Muttart writes in a 174-page letter to inquiry commissioner Steve Allan. It adds that the order creating the commission “construes criticism of the oil and gas industry—or, depending on one’s perspective, concern about the environment—as ‘anti-Alberta’.”