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

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Alberta Utility Bills Are Set To Spike And Data Centres Are To Blame

ByMitch Anderson

onJul 20, 2026 @ 12:33 PDT

Albertans pay the highest electricity rates in the country and new gas plants for AI data centres could drive costs up further.

How Big Oil Spent Decades Selling the Myth of ‘Clean’ Natural Gas

BySarah Hofmann

onJul 20, 2026 @ 07:05 PDT

A new report reveals oil and gas companies knew as early as the mid-1970s that methane fueled climate change while launching massive PR campaigns to promote natural gas as clean energy.