Why did the city of Calgary give $340,000 to th anti-oilsands Pembina Institute?

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Meet the mayor's scientists

Pembina’s mission is shutting down fossil fuel industries. Not in OPEC countries, of course. Just Canadian oil, and the jobs that go with it. Many of which are in Calgary.

Would the city of Windsor, Ont., home of Canada’s auto industry, give a third of a million dollars to anti-car lobbyist? Would Hamilton hire an anti-steel lobby?


http://www.blazingcatfur.blogspot.ca/2013/09/meet-mayors-scientists.html




The Canadian Taxpayers Federation revealed this shocking payment. But instead of expressing embarrassment, Mayor Naheed Nenshi admitted he knew all about it, and supported it.


Nenshi didn’t dispute that Pembina has nine lobbyists registered in Ottawa to attack the oil patch. But he claimed Pembina was also a “scientific think-tank” and it was for this expertise that the city paid them so richly. When asked by Sun Media if the city would ever pay the pro-free market Fraser Institute for advice, Nenshi was dismissive. “As soon as they hire scientists who actually know something,” he sniffed.


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Sun News : Meet the mayor's scientists
 
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He did not hire the think tank for advice on shutting down the oil sands, the city did that
for other science projects that likely had interest for the city. To state that they were
supporting the destruction of the oil sands is nonsense.
In addition the Fraser Institute is not a reputable source for information its stats are
skewed by ideology. There are conservative leaning institutes that are very good but the
Fraser Institute is not one of them.
The other problem for the political right will come quickly if they attack the Mayor of
Calgary his popular at home and across the country not the smartest thing they could do
 
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Yeah, just a bunch of PhD's versus Pembina's communications, social media and e-marketing hacks. Yeah. :lol:
 
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The Cracked Crystal Ball II: Canada's...: "Excellent discussion about Ezra's recent attack on Nenshi for city use of Pembina Institute consultants.

A few salient points:
- Over half of the disputed spending took place prior to the October 2010 civic election (during Dave Bronconnier's tenure).
- Average annual spending on Pembina consultants was $60K over the past five years.
- Signifiantly less was spent on Pembina by the City under Nenshi than was spent under Bronconnier.

Ezra forgets that Nenshi's role is not to micromanage day to day city business, nor to review every small contract that is signed. City staff hold that responsibility. In doing business with the City there is an open bidding process and all interested suppliers can submit a competitive proposal.

Stating that Nenshi made the decision to hire a consultant from Pembina is as laughable as suggesting that the President of PetroCanada is responsible for personally screening every single contractor hired by that organization."
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Locutus said:
fildebrandt.ca » Blog Archive » CTF Uncovers $341,000 in City of Calgary Taxpayer Funding to Pembina Institute

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation - Does Mayor Nenshi's Defence of Pembina Add Up?
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the ctf does not back up any of their claims, and levant, as usual, takes a blog as gospel and reports as if it is some sacred revelation come down from God himself. Since it's levant ranting, I take that as a positive for Nenshi and will make sure I vote for him in the next election, just on levants recommendation.
 
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gerryh said:
the ctf does not back up any of their claims, and levant, as usual, takes a blog as gospel and reports as if it is some sacred revelation come down from God himself. Since it's levant ranting, I take that as a positive for Nenshi and will make sure I vote for him in the next election, just on levants recommendation.
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Your mayor admitted handing out the funds. It was discovered thru access to information as also reported in your calgary herald.

Federation fights public dollars for political advocacy groups

Even that isn't the point of the article.

The thing with hearing something you know is likely stinky and smells bad is, usually, where you hear/read it. That's where prejudice comes in. Let's blame a blog, citizen journalist, a mouthy jew-con at sun news, the libtard cbc or some such thing. Facts is facts man.

The Pembina Institute – like the Fraser Institute – is a think-rank that frequently gets involved in important political debates. That’s a good thing, so long as groups involved in political debates aren’t being pumped full of taxpayers’ cash.

It is why taxpayer money should not go to left or right 'think tanks'. See now?

Now you keep voting for that fabulous mayor of yours all you want, we don't care. :lol:
 
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Nice of you to supply that link Loc, and if you read it, you would see that most of what the ctf and levant were crying about is bullshyte. No basis in fact or reality.
 
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Nenshi is a former college/university instructor... His sense of inflated self-worth and entitlement as a politician are testament to that
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Nemshi's an interesting guy, Remember that he 'came out of nowhere' to take the election- at the End of July he was polling 5%- behind Bob Hawksworth.

OTOH, he didn't make his money by routing the C- train through, 'cough cough' preselected lands.
 
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Ezra, the CTF and the Fraser Insititute? Why do have the overwhelming sense that only one side of teh story is being aired here. :lol:
 
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Well, if you wanna find some proof to counter the fact that socio-e-douchebags got about a third of that cash from sir elton nelshi or whatever his name is, and he thinks they're some sort of scientists and that he didn't throw a hissy girl fit and use the beat your wife line...be my guest. :lol:
 
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Hmm, funny how the documents they do choose to show, and in their communications, both Levant and the CTF neglect to mention that Calgary has grant funding from The Federation of Canadian Municipalities and Alberta Environment, for it's greenhouse gas reduction plan, the very item all those purchase orders are made out for if you actually bother to look into it.

Pembina was contracted as consultants on the plan, and wrote a report for the city of Calgary.

The documents do not in fact show that Pembina was paid with tax payers dollars. No more than to say someone with a scholarship paid for their education entirely out of their pocket...

Colour me shocked, not.
 
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Locutus said:
Yeah, nothing to see here. :lol:

Anyway, here's more on the social-media, non-scientist darlings:

Pembina's other clients


Ezra Levant exposes how Pembina was paid by a foreign government to lobby the city of Calgary.

Blazing Cat Fur: Pembina's other clients
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Odd how Kent was shown the door as Environment Minister for pushing 30-30-30- and Harper is offering 40-40-40 to Obama.

Fraser Institute - Pembina Institute- Both have the extreme end of the spectrum covered.
I take both with 2 grains of salt, as pictured below in the container.
 
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Locutus said:
Yeah, nothing to see here.
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On the contrary, it was hiding in plain sight, right on the documents CTF chose to show. :p

If people are too blind or otherwise lacking to see that Pembina does a lot of consulting on this topic, then I'm not really surprised that they can't figure out why the city of Calgary paid Pembina.
 
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