From: Strange Bedfellows
They’ve bankrolled the Tea Party movement in the U.S., and
underwritten climate change skeptics, and now billionaire brothers
Charles and David Koch are upping their involvements in Canada.
Koch Industries is registering to lobby the government of Alberta,
and retained one of Canada’s top firms — Global Public Affairs — as its
representative in the Great White North.
“The registration was made on March 15 making Koch Industries legally
able to lobby provincial policy makers on the issues of ‘energy and
resource development,’ ‘economic development,’ and ‘taxation policy’,”
thetyee.ca, a Vancouver news website, reported Thursday.
The Kochs have already let their money speak up north. They’ve given
$175,000 to The Fraser Institute, a free market Vancouver think tank
that serves as advocate for the energy, mining, timber and other
Canadian resource industries.
And they are deeply involved in the vast Alberta oil sands development.
Koch Industries owns a crude oil terminal in Hardesty, Alberta and a
Koch subsidiary, Flint Hills Resources Canada LP, is a major exporter of
oil to the United States.
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