Some Facts Behind the Ecojustice Injunction to Halt Alberta’s Public Inquiry into Foreign Funding

The Facts:

Ecojustice, an organization that receives foreign funding wants to halt the inquiry into foreign funding.

• According to their CRA filings, in 2018 alone they received $1,046,974 from a source outside of Canada.
• In the past, Ecojustice was also a recipient of funding related to Tides USA’s ‘Tar Sands Campaign’.
  https://financialpost.com/opinion/vivian-krause-oil-sands-money-trail
• Ecojustice has been a long-time anti-oil and gas advocate. They boast about their ‘environmental wins’ on their website. This includes the canceling of Energy East in 2017
  https://ecojustice.ca/case/challenging-transcanadas-energy-east-pipeline/
• Recently, Ecojustice was the main proponent in the Supreme Court challenge to the Trans Mountain pipeline. The Supreme Court rightly quashed their challenge in early 2020 after 3 years of legal battles.
  https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/supreme-court-will-not-hear-trans-mountain-pipeline-expansion-appeal-cases-1.4840089

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