A prominent British Columbia environmentalist has written a letter to Greenpeace International criticizing the recent appointment of Tzeporah Berman to a position heading the organization's climate and energy campaign.
Sherrod criticized Berman's group ForestEthics, and others, for endorsing an agreement that allows logging in two-thirds of the Great Bear Rainforest and for supporting the mountain caribou recovery plan even though it fails to appreciably reduce logging in the animal's habitat.
During the 2009 election Berman supported premier Gordon Campbell's “plan to privatize our rivers” while ignoring its plans to “pipe dirty tarsands oil across B.C. and load it into oil tankers in B.C.'s vital coastal waters,” Sherrod wrote.
She also criticized the “Economy wide carbon pricing” award Berman's PowerUp Canada gave Campbell in Copenhagen in December.
The threats to life on Earth require a major transformation, not the “minor concessions . . . in return for endorsements of their major destructive activities” that environmentalists get meeting with major corporations behind closed doors, she said.
Berman was not immediately available for comment.
Andrew MacLeod is The Tyee’s Legislative Bureau Chief in Victoria.
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