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<div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Climate Science Denier Patrick Moore Under Attack ... - DeSmog  https://www.desmog.com › 2016/04/07 › climate-scienc...</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Apr 7, 2016 — British environmentalist and author Mark Lynas, who is also pro-nuclear energy, weighed in too, describing Moore as “just a predictable ...</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">Climate science denialist <a href="https://www.desmog.com/patrick-moore" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Patrick Moore</a> is all about “consensus building.” We know this because it says so on his <a href="http://www.webcitation.org/6ga3sqkxW" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">biography at the think tank</a> Frontier Centre for Public Policy.   And so, fresh from delivering a <a href="http://www.desmog.com/2016/03/14/coal-lobbyists-euracoal-paid-patrick-moore-dinner-climate-science-deniers-eu-officials-and-european-parliament-members" data-wpel-link="internal" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">coal-funded talk in Brussels</a> where he told the audience to “celebrate CO2”, the Canadian has been out doing a bit of that “consensus building” in his own unique way.   In recent days, Moore has accused respected climate scientist Ken Caldeira of “fakery”, called him a “jerk” and then told a fellow nuclear power advocate to “GFY”.   The nuclear advocate in question was Australian energy and climate consultant Ben Heard, who had engaged Moore on social media. He’s written a <a href="http://decarbonisesa.com/2016/03/30/friends-like-moore/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">blog about the exchange</a>.   British environmentalist and author Mark Lynas, who is also pro-nuclear energy, weighed in too, <a href="https://twitter.com/mark_lynas/status/715629383369801729" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">describing Moore as</a> “just a predictable right-wing anti-green contrarian”.   When <a href="http://www.desmog.com/2016/03/14/coal-lobbyists-euracoal-paid-patrick-moore-dinner-climate-science-deniers-eu-officials-and-european-parliament-members" data-wpel-link="internal" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">DeSmog UK</a> gave Moore the chance to respond to a story showing he had been paid by coal lobbyists to deliver a talk, his response was “bugger off”.<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; line-height: 1.2;">Who is Patrick Moore?</h3>For those that don’t know, <a href="https://www.desmog.com/patrick-moore" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Patrick Moore</a> is often described as a former senior member of Greenpeace, even though he left that organisation 30 years ago.   Since then, he has spent his time being an advocate for nuclear power, GM crops, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2010/dec/02/sumatra-rainforest-destruction-patrick-moore" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">forestry</a> and, apparently, burning as much coal as you can get your hands on.   In a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/monsanto-roundup-patrick-moore_n_6956034.html?section=australia" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">French television interview last year</a>, Moore told a journalist that the pesticide glyphosate was not a carcinogen and was so safe, “you could drink a whole quart of it and it won’t hurt you”.     Moore was then immediately offered the chance to drink a glass by the interviewer, which he declined. “I’m not an idiot,” he said.   Moore is a long-time climate science denialist and claims, against all credible scientific institutions, that there is “<a href="https://twitter.com/EcoSenseNow/status/692799155123523584" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">no proof</a>” that the extra CO2 in the atmosphere (about 40 per cent more than there was before the industrial revolution) is causing any global warming.<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; line-height: 1.2;">Acidification denial </h3>In April 2015, <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LGh8oEBeA84J:www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/put-the-acid-on-great-barrier-reef-doomsayers/news-story/196fe4ff3971485f176d4fdc755c2c87+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Moore wrote a column for The Australian</a> newspaper claiming that ocean acidification, caused by adding CO2 to the atmsophere mostly from burning fossil fuels, wouldn’t be a problem for the oceans and the species that live in them.   In typical conspiratorial style, Moore even claimed the science of ocean acidification had been “invented” around the year 2005.   Moore has no academic publishing record at all on ocean acidification (or much else in the last 20 years), so it was no surprise that he got things badly wrong.   Several of the world’s leading scientists on ocean acidification, including one who had apparently begun studying the issue a whole five years before it had even been “invented”, tore Moore’s claims to pieces.   Moore’s column was “ill informed and highly misleading”, “very wrong”, “BS” and “nonsense”, the scientists <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2015/apr/16/ask-the-real-experts-about-ocean-acidification-not-climate-science-deniers" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">told me for The Guardian</a>, who explained in painstaking detail why his analysis was flawed.   But this didn’t stop Moore making the same claims in a subsequent <a href="https://fcpp.org/sites/default/files/documents/Moore%20-%20Ocean%20Acidification%20Alarmism.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">research paper</a> ”<a href="https://fcpp.org/sites/default/files/documents/Moore%20-%20Ocean%20Acidification%20Alarmism.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Ocean ‘Acidification’ Alarmism in Perspective</a>” for the Canada-based Frontier Center for Public Policy (FCPP), where he is chair of the think tank’s “Energy, Ecology and Prosperity Program”.   Oddly, the paper carried a disclaimer that the views expressed “do not reflect the opinions” of the center, “its Board of Directors, staff and/or donors” despite it being written by one of its own.   According to FCPP, its papers are “rigorously researched by the most credible experts in their field”. They also claim to run their own “peer review” system for their reports.   This is just as well, because Moore thinks that actual peer reviewed scientific journals are ruled by a “warmist ideology”.   This appears to be a pattern for Moore. When challenged, respond with a mixture of abuse, name-calling and conspiracy theories.   So when a group of students walked out of a speech he gave at a US college last year, he <a href="https://www.desmog.com/2014/10/23/climate-science-denialist-patrick-moore-tours-australia-after-comparing-students-taliban" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">compared them to the “taliban”</a>.   There’s Moore’s “consensus building” skills on display again.Image: Patrick Moore gives evidence to the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, February 2014</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">----</div>=619 mojo no lnx docs<a href="https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2019/06/a-scientist-took-climate-change-deniers-to-court-and-wrested-an-apology-from-them/">https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2019/06/a-scientist-took-climate-change-deniers-to-court-and-wrested-an-apology-from-them/</a>ENVIRONMENTJUNE 16, 2019A Scientist Took Climate Change Deniers to Court and Wrested an Apology From ThemIn the fight against climate disinformation, experts like him are turning to new arenas.EMMA MCINTOSH
Scientist Michael Mann attends the New York screening of the HBO documentary, "How To Let Go Of The World And All The Things Climate Can't Change" in New York City.Slaven Vlasic/Getty/HBO
This story was originally published by National Observer and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. 
In 2011, renowned scientist Michael E. Mann sued a Canadian think tank that published an interview suggesting his work on climate change was fraud.Eight years later, the Winnipeg-based Frontier Centre for Public Policy—which often promotes climate change denial—apologized Friday and wiped the inflammatory interview from its website.“(The apology) gives me faith in our legal system that truth can still win out, even in an era of ‘fake news’ and ‘alternative facts,'” Mann said in an email to National Observer.In the fight against climate disinformation, experts like Mann, an atmospheric scientist at Pennsylvania State University, are turning to new arenas.Mann is best known as the lead researcher on a landmark 1998 paper on climate change. He and three colleagues reconstructed global temperatures going back about 500 years, producing a now-infamous sideways-hockey-stick-like graph of global temperatures that showed a sharp upswing beginning in the 1900s.Mann has spent the two decades since the paper’s publication defending it and his reputation against climate change deniers—sometimes in court. He settled with the Frontier Centre on Friday, but a related case in British Columbia and a similar one in the United States are ongoing.In a message posted to its website, the Frontier Centre apologized for publishing “untrue and disparaging” comments about Mann.“Although the Frontier Centre for Public Policy still does not see eye to eye with Mr. Mann on the subject of global warming and climate change, we now accept that it was wrong to publish allegations by others that Mr. Mann did not comply with ethical standards…” the think tank wrote in part.@MichaelEMann I've settled my claims in BC Supreme Court against The Frontier Centre for Public Policy Inc. on a basis which includes the following retraction & apology. I have not settled my claims against Tim Ball, who remains a defendant in that lawsuit: https://fcpp.org/retraction-and-apology-to-michael-mann/ …1,17312:29 PM - Jun 7, 2019...<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.39px; line-height: 19.5px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">oops, but hoole cfact bd
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.39px; line-height: 19.5px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">just a guess:<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.39px; line-height: 19.5px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">A Canadian division of Koch Industries is reviewing a range of offers to buy up to 220,000 net acres of its many undeveloped oil sands properties within Alberta's vast reserves of oil sands.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">The company, Calgary-based Koch Oil Sands Operating ULC, said in June it was looking for strategic investors to help accelerate production on six properties held by the limited partnership Koch Exploration Canada. The company later said it would entertain offers to acquire the entire Koch Exploration partnership or to buy any of the projects.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">The Koch projects will extract bitumen using a non-mining technique called steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD), and are in various stages of development. The projects could ultimately yield an estimated 2.9 billion barrels of "recoverable" resources and could position the buyer "to be a top tier Canadian bitumen producer," <a href="http://www.westerndivestments.com/div_pkgs/Koch_2012/Koch_Properties.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent;">according to an online description of the offering</a>.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">The move by Koch to sell off one of its partnerships pulls the curtain back further on the Koch family's <a href="http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20120510/koch-industries-brothers-tar-sands-bitumen-heavy-oil-flint-pipelines-refinery-alberta-canada" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent;">deep but quiet involvement in Canada's tar sands industry</a>. Koch Industries has had a stake going back 50 years in Canadian heavy oil through mining, pipeline development and refining. Its Pine Bend Refinery in Minnesota is now responsible for about 20 percent of the oil sands crude being piped into the United States and has played a key role in the growth of the family's fortune. The family stands to profit further from growing U.S. reliance on tar sands imports.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">The potential sale of Koch Exploration Canada comes amid a wave of deals involving oil properties and projects in Western Canada, home to the world's third-largest proven reserves of crude oil.  The investment surge has sent billions of dollars to Alberta's oil patch and is expected to fuel a doubling of oil production by 2020. It is being led by companies from China—though last month <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/kuwait-closes-in-on-athabasca-deal/article4510896/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent;">Kuwait's state-owned petroleum company announced a $4 billion joint venture</a> it hopes to close in October.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">"A number of companies are testing the water in acquisitions right now, just because they're seeing some pretty significant premiums being paid by a good number of foreign national oil companies who are willing to pay top dollar [for a stake in the oil sands]," said Scott Sharabura, a principal and expert on the Canadian oil and gas sectors at Booz & Co., a consulting firm. "In that respect, it can be a good time to be a seller."<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">The Koch offering is not among the largest batch of properties recently put up for sale, Sharabura said. But he added, "It's a significant opportunity ... industry participants are going to be interested in how it turns out."<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Because Koch Industries is a privately held company and its holdings are generally not publicly disclosed, it's unclear how big the Koch Exploration Canada sale is in relation to the company's total oil sands lease holdings....<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">---<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">http://www.nationalobserver.com/2015/05/04/news/how-canada-made-koch-brothers-rich<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Author's note: Until this past February, I worked as a contracted television producer for Global TV and its current affairs program, 16x9. Last fall, I was commissioned to do a story for the program about the Koch brothers, their holdings in Alberta’s oil sands and their interest in getting the Keystone XL pipeline built. In January, two days before the 22-minute documentary was about to air on 16x9, Global's senior management pulled the story. After Jesse Brown's Canadaland published a story about<a href="http://canadalandshow.com/article/global-news-disappeared-koch-brothers-expos%C3%A9" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: none; outline: none; transition: color 0.15s ease-in-out, background-color 0.15s ease-in-out;"> its sudden disappearance</a>, Global fired me, although I was not quoted in that story or had any involvement with it. What you're about to read includes some of the material that has not yet been permitted to be shown on Global.<div class="panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-field-article-deck articledeck" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.33333rem; line-height: 23.9999px;"></div><div class="panel-pane pane-node-content articlebody js-pw" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 2.22222rem; line-height: 23.9999px;"><article id="node-116" class="node node-article clearfix" role="article" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="content" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 2rem; margin-top: 1.33333rem; margin-bottom: 1.33333rem;">The attacks were nasty.</h2>In the winter of 2011, Karen Kleiss, a reporter with the Edmonton Journal, wrote a story about how Koch Industries Inc. had hired a lobbyist in Alberta. The story provided background on the Wichita, Kansas-based energy conglomerate, its presence in Alberta, and its American billionaire owners, Charles and David Koch.<div id="dfp-ad-article_ad_top-wrapper" class="dfp-tag-wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; text-align: center;">Kleiss reported at the time that no one from Koch Industries addressed her questions. Nevertheless, after her story appeared, Koch Industries went on the offensive. On their website, <a href="http://kochfacts.com/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: none; outline: none; transition: color 0.15s ease-in-out, background-color 0.15s ease-in-out;">kochfacts.com</a> – and in vivid red type – they lashed out at Kleiss’s article, claiming it was “slanted,” that it “parroted partisan political rhetoric and other distortions” and that its coverage of the Koch brothers registering a lobbyist in Alberta was a “purported story.” The Koch Industries representative summed up by saying:“There is a place for opinion on the op-ed pages, on blogs, and on Twitter. It does not belong on the news pages of an objective journal.”What the paragraph-by-paragraph rebuttal did not dispute was Kleiss's assertion that Koch industries is “an American energy conglomerate owned by two powerful billionaire brothers who help fund the Tea Party and climate change denial movements in the U.S.”The attack was so strong that Lucinda Chodan, editor-in-chief of the Journal at the time, felt compelled to write a lengthy response to Koch defending her reporter’s work. The company replied by taking further potshots at the newspaper and at Kleiss’s judgment.Around the same time, a similar scenario was playing out after Reuters ran a <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/10/idUS292515702420110210" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: none; outline: none; transition: color 0.15s ease-in-out, background-color 0.15s ease-in-out;">story</a> entitled “Koch Brothers Positioned To Be Big Winners If Keystone XL Pipeline Is Approved,” that also detailed Koch’s holdings in Canada. It discussed how the Koch brothers would benefit if the Keystone XL pipeline was built.Written by David Sassoon, a journalist who runs InsideClimate News— a Brooklyn, NY-based, Pulitzer prize-winning website that covers climate change issues— the Reuters piece eventually elicited a ferocious response from Koch’s PR department. The company accused Sassoon of publishing “falsehoods” and of being an “environmental activist,” and Reuters of printing “advocacy journalism.”Koch Industries even took out ads via Facebook and Google with a photo of Sassoon under the headline “David Sassoon’s Deceptions.”Once again, a Reuters editor had to intervene with a lengthy letter to Koch defending their use of Sassoon’s reporting. These attacks went on for some months. Today, Kleiss and Sassoon refuse to discuss these events.But at that time Koch Industries’ campaigns against the media were not unusual. Their website, KochFacts, criticized reporting in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Mother Jones, <a href="http://forbes.com/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: none; outline: none; transition: color 0.15s ease-in-out, background-color 0.15s ease-in-out;">Forbes.com</a>,The Washington Post and Bloomberg's Markets Magazine.By 2011, the Koch brothers – currently the sixth richest people in the world, with US$42.3-billion apiece – were attracting attention because of their efforts at influencing the US political system, helping foster the Tea Party movement, and attacking attempts to curb climate change. They were also emerging as political kingmakers: two weeks ago, the brothers were in the news for endorsing Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, as their choice for the Republican presidential nominee (Walker is well-known for his attacks on labour rights in his state).Koch Industries, the second-largest private company in the US, has become infamous for playing hardball....eenpeace’s most recent research shows that since 1997, the Kochs have spent a total of US$79-million to groups that deny climate change science.Some of that cash has come north to Canada – specifically to the Fraser Institute. As<a href="http://www.vancouverobserver.com/politics/2012/04/25/charitable-fraser-institute-accepted-500k-foreign-funding-oil-billionaires" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: none; outline: none; transition: color 0.15s ease-in-out, background-color 0.15s ease-in-out;"> first revealed</a> by the Vancouver Observer, tax records show that since 2007, the Fraser Institute, one of Canada’s oldest conservative think tanks, has pocketed a total of US$765,000 from one of Charles Kochs’ foundations.“Multiple generations of Fraser Institute staffers and donors and board members have had links to the federal Conservative Party,” says Rick Smith, executive director of the Broadbent Institute, a liberal think tank. “There’s no doubt that the Fraser Institute’s aggressive denial of climate change, you can see resonating in Harper government policy.”Given that the Kochs’ companies generate huge quantities of greenhouse gases, this expenditure is no surprise. But it also has a direct bearing on their plans for the oil sands.For instance, the Kochs’ Dunkirk project will be using in situ technology – whereby the bitumen is steamed out of the ground. Yet Erin Flanagan, an oil sands analyst with the Pembina Institute, says “when you compare in situ drilling and open pit mining, in situ is actually 2.5 times more greenhouse-gas damaging per barrel than a barrel through mining.”And then there is the Keystone XL pipeline, which would connect the oil sands to the Gulf of Mexico. Koch Industries claims they have no financial stake in, or party to the design and construction of Keystone – even producing a YouTube video to this effect. And it’s true the company has booked no capacity on the pipeline, should it ever be built.These denials ring a little hollow to some: after all, the tar sands are the world’s third largest source of oil and the Kochs control at least 1.1 million acres of it. “The Koch brothers are very interested in the Keystone XL pipeline going through,” insists Mike Casey of NextGen Climate. “They'll tell you that they're not, but the reality is that they understand that it’s a key piece of enabling infrastructure for tar sands development. Without a major pipeline, the tar sands do not get developed.”Indeed, the oil industry is desperate to build pipelines for two reasons: cost and capacity. “Pipelines are going to replace rail over the long term and will be a cheaper option for these (oil sands) projects,” explains Sam La Bell, an oil analyst with Veritas Investment Research, a Bay Street equity research firm. “From that point of view, it will probably cost you from $8 to $12 a barrel on a pipeline, whereas you will pay up to $20 a barrel for rail. It’s the cheaper option.”In fact, the financial industry has pointed to the cost difference as being critical. In a 2013 Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) report on Keystone, they said if it does not go ahead “oil sands projects slated for start-up in the 2014-16 timeframe are likely to proceed at a much slower pace or be deferred.” A Goldman Sachs report the same year said if Keystone was not approved, supply to the U.S. of oil sands fuel begins to level off.Moreover, transporting bitumen by rail has its limits. “With rail capacity, we will be at capacity by 2017 and 2018,” says La Bell. “So, in other words, all of the takeaway capacity – rail and pipelines – would be used up by that point. Beyond 2017 we need longer term options to pan out” – in other words, pipelines like Keystone.In short, Koch will be hampered in exploiting their oil sands holdings if Keystone and other pipelines are not approved. As Casey says: “They're not holding 1.1 million acres of tar sands for conservation purposes.”Which is one reason the Kochs have perhaps invested so heavily in backing the pro-Keystone Republican Party.In 2012, for example, Koch-affiliated organizations raised US$404-million during the US election cycle. This past US midterm, they spent US$290-million to help Republicans win control of the Senate. The Republicans’ first order of business was to introduce a bill in the Senate on Keystone, which was passed in January (Obama vetoed it).This winter, it was revealed that the Kochs and their billionaire friends plan to spent US$889-million on the 2016 election cycle – or more than double what the Republican National Committee spent in 2012.“I think they are doubling down on their efforts to change the balance of power in the U.S.,” says Schulman. “They are funding really their own political party.”The National Observer contacted a Koch Industries spokesperson multiple times for comment on the issues raises in this article. The company did not respond.Meanwhile, as the Koch brothers continue to make headlines over their political ambitions, the evidence suggests that behind their veil of secrecy lies a plan to continue profiting from Canada’s oil.As Mike Casey says: “These are business people and they invest politically to advance a business agenda and financial agenda, and they're not in the tar sands because they like the look of the landscape.”</div></div></article></div><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.39px; line-height: 19.5px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.39px; line-height: 19.5px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lawrence Solomon is a columnist with <em style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.38999998569488525px; line-height: 19.5px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Financial Post<span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.38999998569488525px; line-height: 19.5px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none;">, the <em style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.38999998569488525px; line-height: 19.5px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">National Post<span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.38999998569488525px; line-height: 19.5px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none;"> (Toronto) and has been a columnist for the<em style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.38999998569488525px; line-height: 19.5px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Globe and Mail<span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.38999998569488525px; line-height: 19.5px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none;"> (Toronto) a contributor to the <em style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.38999998569488525px; line-height: 19.5px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wall Street Journal<span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.38999998569488525px; line-height: 19.5px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none;">, and the editor and publisher of The Next City magazine.

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---srcwtchPeter Holle is the president of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Frontier_Centre_for_Public_Policy" title="Frontier Centre for Public Policy" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Frontier Centre for Public Policy</a>. He has a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Wisconson at Madison. He has advised many governments in issues of public policy, and he worked as a senior policy advisor to the Government of Saskatchewan headed by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Grant_Devine" title="Grant Devine" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Grant Devine</a> during the 1980s<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.fcpp.org/main/people.php?CategoryID=6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">[1]</a>. During the 1990s, several of Devine's former cabinet ministers went to jail following a corruption scandal in his government<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Devine" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">[2]</a>.<ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Advisory Board, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Committee_for_a_Constructive_Tomorrow" title="Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Peter_Holle#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></li></ul><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="color: black; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Peter_Holle#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Peter_Holle#Resources_and_articles" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1 Resources and articles</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Peter_Holle#Related_Sourcewatch_articles" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1.1 Related Sourcewatch articles</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Peter_Holle#References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1.2 References</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Peter_Holle#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">2 External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; 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color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cfact.org/site/advisors.asp" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Advisory Board</a>, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, accessed September 19, 2008.</li></ol><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" background="background" none="none" rgb="rgb">External links</h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Frontier Centre for Public Policy, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fcpp.org/main/people.php?CategoryID=6" style="text-decoration: none; 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Frontier Centre for Public Policy is a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Think_tank" title="Think tank" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">think tank</a> founded in 1999 headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Its research is directed specifically to economic issues facing the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

The Centre claims to be independent and ideology free, however the studies it publishes generally support <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Neoliberal" title="Neoliberal" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">neoliberal</a> economic theories. This inclination is evident in the statements that "The vast prairie region has all the ingredients to be the most prosperous and successful region in the world: abundant natural resources, high-quality public services and hardworking, spirited citizens. However, with our old, low-performance policy paradigm and a tax regime that renders this region less competitive, Manitoba and Saskatchewan risk falling ever further behind other jurisdictions despite these advantages. We have drifted into our downward cycle because of a poverty of ideas."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Frontier_Centre_for_Public_Policy#cite_note-Ideas-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a>

It also states that "We live in an exciting time of rapidly advancing living standards, exploding knowledge and new opportunities. Borders are disappearing as brains and capital shift to places with favourable tax and investment climates. To prosper in this environment, governments need to offer high-quality public services in combination with lighter taxation. Adhering to our old, increasingly unworkable public administration models is a straightforward recipe for decline."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Frontier_Centre_for_Public_Policy#cite_note-Ideas-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Frontier_Centre_for_Public_Policy#Personnel" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1 Personnel</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Frontier_Centre_for_Public_Policy#Staff" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">2 Staff</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Frontier_Centre_for_Public_Policy#Funding" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">3 Funding</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Frontier_Centre_for_Public_Policy#Contact_information" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">4 Contact information</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Frontier_Centre_for_Public_Policy#Articles_and_resources" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">5 Articles and resources</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Frontier_Centre_for_Public_Policy#Related_SourceWatch_articles" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">5.1 Related SourceWatch articles</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Frontier_Centre_for_Public_Policy#References" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">5.2 References</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Frontier_Centre_for_Public_Policy#External_resources" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">5.3 External resources</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Frontier_Centre_for_Public_Policy#External_articles" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">5.4 External articles</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Wayne_Anderson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wayne Anderson (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Wayne Anderson</a>, Chair</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=James_Blatz&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="James Blatz (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">James Blatz</a>,</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rob_Coghlan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rob Coghlan (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Rob Coghlan</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sue_Hicks&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sue Hicks (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Sue Hicks</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Heimbecker&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Heimbecker (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">John Heimbecker</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Peter_Holle" title="Peter Holle" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Peter Holle</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Peter_Jessiman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Peter Jessiman (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Peter Jessiman</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alexander_McKenzie&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alexander McKenzie (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Alexander McKenzie</a> (Secretary)</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Hon. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charlie_Mayer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charlie Mayer (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Charlie Mayer</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_R._Messer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John R. Messer (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">John R. Messer</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Riffel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rick Riffel (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Rick Riffel</a></li>

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<h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Staff</h2>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Peter_Holle" title="Peter Holle" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Peter Holle</a>, President</li></ul><div>bs</div><div>Peter Holle is the founding President of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, an award-winning western Canadian based public policy think tank.  Since its founding in 1999, the Frontier Centre has brought a distinctive and influential Prairie voice to regional and national debates over public policy in areas such as core public sector reform, Aboriginal affairs, the environment, healthcare, equalization and more. The Frontier Centre was recently ranked the 25th most influential think tank in Canada and Mexico by the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Holle has worked extensively with public sector reform and has provided advisory services to various governments across Canada and the United States. His publications have appeared in various newspapers and journals including the National Post and the Wall Street Journal. He has a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.</div><div>
</div><ul style="line-height: 19.2px; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaauaaaanaqmaaabb8jblaaaablbmvex="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX" auow5qsojaaaaaxrstlmaqobyzgaaabnjrefucb1jyeabbqw="AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw" wlcagqeagpidyt0ivcsaaaaasuvork5cyii="); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" xmlns:data="data">

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dennis_Owens&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dennis Owens (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Dennis Owens</a>, Senior Policy Analyst</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_Sopuck&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert Sopuck (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Robert Sopuck</a>, Director, Rural Renaissance Project</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Claire_Toews&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Claire Toews (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Claire Toews</a>, Director of Administration</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Henry_Dyck&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Henry Dyck (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Henry Dyck</a>, Director of Business Development</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_Sopuck&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert Sopuck (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Robert Sopuck</a>, Rural Renaissance Project</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Donald_Sandberg&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Donald Sandberg (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Donald Sandberg</a>, Aboriginal Frontiers Project</li>

</ul><div>Dr. Tom Flanagan is the Chair of the <a href="https://fcpp.org/aboriginal-futures" style="text-decoration: none; font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Aboriginal Futures program</a>. He is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at University of Calgary, where he taught for more than 45 years, serving as Department Head, Advisor to the President and a Distringuished Fellow at the School of Public Policy. Dr. Flanagan has been Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and a strategy and campaign advisor to numerous federal and provincial political campaigns. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Dr. Flanagan is a monthly columnist for the Globe & Mail and frequent contributor to national and international press such as MacLeans and Time magazines. He is the author of several award-winning books on aboriginal topics, including Metis Lands in Manitoba, First Nations? Second Thoughts and Beyond the Indian Act.</div>

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<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">"Independent think tanks receive their funding exclusively from non-governmental sources. This insulates them from the political pressures that frequently discourage publicly funded research groups from exploring sensitive issues," the think tank's website states.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Frontier_Centre_for_Public_Policy#cite_note-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[2]</a> "The Centre does not accept any funding from governments to maintain its independent and fresh perspective on public policy," it states. In 2008, 10% of the think tank's funding was from corporations with a further 67% from unspecified foundations.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Frontier_Centre_for_Public_Policy#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none;">[3]</a>

In 2002, 59% of its budget came from unspecified "private charitable foundations" with another 25% from companies. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.fcpp.org/who_funds_us.php" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[1]</a>

According to its 2003 Annual Report, the annual income for the organisation was just over $C370,000. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.fcpp.org/pdf/FC2003_AReport.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAATklEQVR4XmXKQQqAMAwF0X/7XsSz9CSKiyIIFRFcjMmihmiGbB5fqDCaQJ4j46pzYLUWe+cXZ6OVBhTS0srY2Njp/+XxXXZOLu6EUWAOPX1vnwTBe6qQAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[2]</a>

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