<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div class="" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><div class="" style=""><div class="" style=""><div class="" role="main" aria-label="Message body" style="padding: 0px;"><div id="yiv5084481745" class="" style=""><div class="" style=""><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><div class="" style=""><span class="" style=""><br clear="none" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></span></div><div class="" style="">Hi folks</div><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="background-color: transparent;">Today I saw this article showing how<span class="" style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); font-family:
Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;"> PM Harper, former advisor Bruce Carson, Nigel Wright and the Energy Policy Institute of Canada (EPIC) are linked. </span></div><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="" target="_blank" href="http://rabble.ca/columnists/2014/05/new-revelations-show-harpers-warm-embrace-big-oil-lobby#.U35j1P0E72w.twitter" style="color: rgb(59, 89, 152); cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.31999969482422px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://rabble.ca/columnists/2014/05/new-revelations-show-harpers-warm-embrace-big-oil-lobby#.U35j1P0E72w.twitter</a><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">This evening I get this email from Forest Ethics showing how all this was linked directly to the
narrowing of participants at the Line 9 hearings. EPIC crafted the wording used by the NEB to negate public participation. </div><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">Check it out below. </div><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">Lulu </div><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">________________________________________________________________________</div><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""><div class="" style=""><table class="" style="word-break: break-word; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif; width: 570px; margin: 0px;"><tbody class="" style="width: 570px;"><tr class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="" style="margin: 0px;"><div class="" style="margin-bottom: 10px; line-height: 1.6; font-size: 17px;"><span class="" style="font-weight: 700;">Your Investment at Work: News Update for ForestEthics Advocacy’s Donors.</span></div><div class="" style="margin-bottom: 10px; line-height: 1.6; font-size: 14px;">Dear Louisette, <br clear="none" class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style="">Did you catch the <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="" target="_blank" href="http://e-activist.com/ea-campaign/broadcast.response.do?ea.url.id=234103&ea.campaigner.email=Lrzq9Pj3WfMGvd6xwyL8Fb7m%2BmHPV1tJanIkY7du0EE=&ea_broadcast_target_id=0" style="color: rgb(25, 106, 212);">news about Bruce Carson</a>? The<span class="" style="font-weight: 700;"> former top adviser to Prime
Minister Stephen Harper was charged last week by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) with illegal lobbying</span> and influence peddling. The RCMP alleges Carson used his political connections to lobby on behalf of the Energy Policy Institute of Canada (EPIC), a non-profit whose members include Enbridge, TransCanada, Suncor and all the other big industry players.<br clear="none" class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style="">In fact, as the Globe and Mail writes: <span class="" style="font-weight: 700;">"Mr. Carson's network was so valued at EPIC that one of his colleagues dubbed him the "secret sauce" in the organization's ability to sell its pro-business agenda to the government."</span><sup class="" style="">1</sup><br clear="none" class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style="">Yup, that's right. The "secret sauce."<br clear="none" class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style="">Well the secret's now out but it comes
as no surprise. We've been connecting the dots between industry and government for a while now. Last year, our "<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="" target="_blank" href="http://e-activist.com/ea-campaign/broadcast.response.do?ea.url.id=234104&ea.campaigner.email=Lrzq9Pj3WfMGvd6xwyL8Fb7m%2BmHPV1tJanIkY7du0EE=&ea_broadcast_target_id=0" style="color: rgb(25, 106, 212);">Who Writes the Rules?</a>" report highlighted some very telling evidence that recommendations from EPIC were found—sometimes word-for-word—in the National Energy Board's (NEB) new rules that limit public participation in oil pipeline project hearings.<br clear="none" class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style="">Take, for example, the new NEB rule stating that in order to comment on a project you must be "directly affected" by the granting or refusing of that project's application. Not only was this an EPIC recommendation—it's right there in their own report—but
it has been very narrowly defined to exclude as many people as possible from pipeline hearings. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.<br clear="none" class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""><span class="" style="font-weight: 700;">That's why we're challenging the new rules in two separate legal challenges</span>concerning the <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="" target="_blank" href="http://e-activist.com/ea-campaign/broadcast.response.do?ea.url.id=234105&ea.campaigner.email=Lrzq9Pj3WfMGvd6xwyL8Fb7m%2BmHPV1tJanIkY7du0EE=&ea_broadcast_target_id=0" style="color: rgb(25, 106, 212);">Enbridge Line 9b</a>, and <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="" target="_blank" href="http://e-activist.com/ea-campaign/broadcast.response.do?ea.url.id=234106&ea.campaigner.email=Lrzq9Pj3WfMGvd6xwyL8Fb7m%2BmHPV1tJanIkY7du0EE=&ea_broadcast_target_id=0" style="color: rgb(25, 106, 212);">Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain</a> pipeline
proposals. We believe these rules violate Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedom. Clayton Ruby, our lawyer in the Enbridge case, will likely deliver oral arguments in the Federal Court of Appeal in Toronto in the next few months. The Kinder Morgan legal challenge just got underway.<br clear="none" class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""><span class="" style="font-weight: 700;">The revolving door that exists between the Harper Conservatives and the oil industry is not just wrong—it's illegal</span>. We now have serious allegations that criminal acts have taken place and with our legal challenges and organizing work, we are hitting back hard and exposing the truth.<br clear="none" class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""><span class="" style="font-weight: 700;">Your support of our work makes this possible and we are truly grateful.</span><br clear="none" class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style="">Sincerely,<br
clear="none" class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img class="" src="http://e-activist.com/ea-campaign/action.retrievefile.do?ea.client.id=1818&ea_filename=ben-west-headshot.jpg" border="0" alt="Ben West" width="141" height="165" style="border: 1px solid black; max-width: 100%; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; float: left;"><div class="" style="margin-bottom: 10px; line-height: 1.6; font-size: 14px;"><br clear="none" class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style="">Ben West<br clear="none" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ForestEthics Advocacy<br clear="none" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Tar Sands Campaign Director<br clear="none" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/BenWest" style="color: rgb(25, 106, 212);"><img class=""
src="http://forestethics.org/sites/www.forestethics.org/themes/forestethics/email/img/responsive1/twitter-small.png" border="0" style="border-width: 0px; max-width: 100%; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">@BenWest</a><br clear="none" class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style="">PS. Want to know more about the links between government and the oil industry? Check out our "<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="" target="_blank" href="http://e-activist.com/ea-campaign/broadcast.response.do?ea.url.id=234107&ea.campaigner.email=Lrzq9Pj3WfMGvd6xwyL8Fb7m%2BmHPV1tJanIkY7du0EE=&ea_broadcast_target_id=0" style="color: rgb(25, 106, 212);">Who Writes the Rules?</a>" report.<div class="" id="yiv5084481745yqtfd91299" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""><sup class="" style="">1</sup></div><em class="" style="">Globe and Mail: “<a rel="nofollow"
shape="rect" class="" target="_blank" href="http://e-activist.com/ea-campaign/broadcast.response.do?ea.url.id=234108&ea.campaigner.email=Lrzq9Pj3WfMGvd6xwyL8Fb7m%2BmHPV1tJanIkY7du0EE=&ea_broadcast_target_id=0" style="color: rgb(25, 106, 212);">Former Harper Advisor Bruce Carson Facing New Charges</a>”, Monday, May 12, 2014</em><div class="" id="yiv5084481745yqtfd66264" style="">.</div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="" id="yiv5084481745yqtfd08754" style=""><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="" style=""></div></div><div class="" style=""><div class="" style=""></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>