"Launched in 2008 by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Tides Foundation, The Tar Sands Campaign aims to stop the transport and export of Alberta oil by pipeline, tanker and by rail. Tides has paid at least $28 million to 75 First Nations and environmental groups involved in this campaign".

"The Tar Sands Campaign aims to embarrass Canada, weaken the Alberta government and “reduce the attractiveness of the Alberta oil industry for the companies themselves, investors and financiers,” the strategy says"