U.S. Oil Funding Canadian NGOs
NGO funding came from oil interests in the United States to block the Northern Gateway pipe to stop our oil competing with trade to Asia.
That is the same as U.S. efforts to stop the Nordstream 2 Russian pipeline as it would displace U.S. LPG into Europe.
In the long run we will thank them because the oil we keep in the ground will become extremely valuable as resources dwindle. It will get to the point were we may not even want to sell as we will be one of the last countries with sufficient oil to supply our domestic needs. However, that maybe difficult to do with the U.S. owning so much of our oil.