Alberta’s public inquiry into the role foreign money may be playing in undermining the energy sector will deliver its report at the end of January. Accountant Steve Allan has been tasked with the inquiry’s mandate to examine “whether any foreign organization that has evinced an intent harmful or injurious to the Alberta oil and gas industry has provided financial assistance to a Canadian organization.” Special attention is to be paid to any Canadian organization that has spread “misleading or false information” about that industry, received grants from any level of government in Canada, or has charitable status in Canada. The inquiry follows in the footsteps of Vivian Krause, a Vancouver resident whose research drew public attention to the money trail connecting Canadian environmental groups to the U.S.-based Tides Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and others. Krause confirmed to The Epoch Times that she made a submission …