The Enbridge Board: A foreign Special Interest Group

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Update: Mea Culpa Below

If Canadian Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver is looking for ideologues and โ€œforeign special interest groupsโ€ who are trying to interfere with the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline hearings, he need look no farther than the Board of Directors of pipeline proponent Enbridgeย Inc.

Oliver got his lapels all flecked with foam last week over pipeline criticism from Canadian environmental groups such as the David Suzuki Foundation or the Pembina Institute, organizations which, in a good year, might get almost 10 per cent of their funding from U.S. sources. These, he said, were clearly โ€œradical groupsโ€ that were โ€œdriven by an ideological imperativeโ€ – and they were meddling inappropriately in Canadianย affairs.

But according to a secret source (okay: it’s the company website), Enbridge Chair David Arledge and six of the 12 Enbridge directors are (everyone get ready to gasp in unison): AMERICANS!

These directors, though, couldn’t possibly be part of the plan to paint environment groups as โ€œforeign special interestโ€ boogeypeople, could they? If you’re wondering, tune into this video: Ethical Oil spokester Kathryn Marshall is sure to leave youย convinced.

Meaย Culpa

Twoย things:

1. An alert reader has questioned my assumptions, challenging the โ€œAmericanโ€ characterization of Maureen Kempston-Darkes, who is a Canadian citizen with an American address (and who can blame her; Florida is nice this time of year and Ms. Kempston-Darkes can certainly afford to move back to Toronto when the climate goes toย hell).

2. I’m a bad speller, which weakness I am disinclined to correct if it continues to bring in funny comments aboutย boogiefolk.

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