Friends of Science: Forgotten, but Not Dead

onApr 21, 2007 @ 08:44 PDT

The Calgary-based and oil-industry-funded Friends of Science is still foundering about, denying the science of climate change and embarrassing itself by trying to overstate its connections to the University of Calgary.

The good folks at SourceWatch have done a great deal more work on this file, including documenting the efforts that the university’s External Vice-President Roman Cooney has made to distance the institution from this very unscientific organization.

There’s also a lovely new (to us, at least) website called FriendsofScience.ca (the toxic original is FriendsofScience.org).

By Richard Littlemore

Fertiliser and Grain Bosses Bank $66 Million Selling Shares During Iran War

ByClare Carlile

onApr 30, 2026 @ 05:45 PDT

Industry giants have been accused of ‘enriching shareholders’ while ‘farmers and consumers pay the price’.

uk/Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests

ByAdam Barnett and Sam Bright

onApr 30, 2026 @ 01:27 PDT

Nigel Farage’s anti-climate party has received two thirds of its income from oil investors.

Series: Defending Democracy from Dirty Money

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uk/'Mad Men Fuelling the Madness': Meet the Advertising CEOs Boosting Big Oil

ByTJ Jordan

onApr 29, 2026 @ 23:05 PDT

You might not have heard of them, but a new analysis shows these ad execs have overseen $1.5 billion worth of fossil fuel ads in the U.S. since the Paris Agreement.