Vivian Krause considers herself a citizen activist, but City Caucus conveniently left out huge chunks of information about her past.
Yesterday, Mike Klassen of City Caucus posted a piece from Vivian Krause concerning the donors to Vision Vancouver and Mayor Gregor Robertson’s campaigns.
As a preamble to the post, Vivian Krause is described as “an expert on the complex subject of charitable foundation money flowing into British Columbia for a variety of activist causes.”
The conveniently excluded depth behind who this woman is, however, is far more interesting.
Vivian Krause worked within the salmon farming industry during 2002 and 2003.
After leaving, she began to describe herself as a “concerned member of the public” who started to “re-think the salmon farming controversy from a perspective I missed when I was in the industry: the Alaskan marketing perspective.”
Here is an example of her attacks on the science that has emerged in recent years about the harmful effects of fish farm sea lice on wild salmon:
“The reason that I believe that it is important clarify the actual research findings and funding sources is this: If the University of Alberta would publicly clarify that a method to trace the origin of sea lice simply doesn’t exist, that sea lice levels at salmon farms and mortality in the wild were never measured by Alexandra Morton and others at the [U of A Centre for Mathematical Biology], that their computer-generated extinction prediction rests on highly selective use of data and questionable assumptions, and that this sea lice research was partially funded by commercial fishing interests and American interests, I believe that British Columbia would not have the sea lice controversy on which $20 – $30 million has now been spent.”
The study she questions was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
It involved “an international team of biologists, mathematicians and environmentalists that studied more than 14,000 juvenile salmon on a 60-kilometre migratory passage, past open-net fish farms off the coast of British Columbia.”
The other authors of the study that don’t work from the University of Alberta represent fellow Canadian post-secondary institutions like the University of Victoria and Dalhousie University.
Oh, and did I mention that Krause has worked as a consultant for Millerd Holdings Ltd. which has interests in processing farmed salmon on Vancouver Island, and for Salmon of the Americas, an international salmon farming trade organization.
She attacks environmentalist Alexandra Morton for stating that “she’s an economist in addition to her other areas of mastery,” and yet Krause just recently took a job as a Constituency Assistant for Conservative MP John Duncan (although a call to the MP’s office this morning showed that mysteriously, Krause no longer works there as of about two to three weeks ago).
Much like his Global TV does with Mike Klassen when they identify him as simply a blogger or a concerned parent (as opposed to someone who used to collect a paycheque from doing work in some shape of fashion for former Mayor Sam Sullivan), it seems as though Klassen also didn’t bother to properly identify the website contributor that was intent on being critical against the current Mayor (oh, and by the way, the details of that exact relationship between Klassen and Sullivan should be VERY interesting when they are eventually released).
But then again, for Klassen, it doesn’t really matter who is saying stuff about Gregor Robertson – as long as it kicks the shit out of those who replaced the NPA.
For a more balanced take on Gregor Robertson’s donors, take a look at this.
