Vivian Krause is a BC-based researcher who claims that in recent years $40 million from US oil interests has been sent to various Canadian environmental and indigenous groups to protest against pipelines that would ship oil from Alberta to the Pacific Coast. Assuming this is true, why would these American oil interests do such a thing?

Vivian Krause is a BC-based researcher who claims that in recent years $40 million from US oil interests has been sent to various Canadian environmental and indigenous groups to protest against pipelines that would ship oil from Alberta to the Pacific Coast. Assuming this is true, why would these American oil interests do such a thing?

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