Postmedia Could Soon Own Almost Every English Newspaper in Canada: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Postmedia has struck a $316 million deal to buy 175 of Quebecor’s English-language newspapers, specialty publications and digital properties, including the Sun chain of papers, according to a report in the Globe and Mail this morning. If it passes regulatory hurdles, the deal will mark a step further down the path of media concentration in Canada. What […]
Lib Dem Peer Asked Why Climate Denial Charity Needs Campaign Wing
Baroness Emma Nicholson, the Liberal Democrat peer, must explain why the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has set up a new campaign wing rather than simply comply with the limits set by the Charity Commission for educational charities, it was claimed today. Nicholson is well-respected within the Lib Dems, but her views clash with the party’s […]
Exclusive: Oil and Tobacco Explain Funding of Neoliberalism
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) helped Thatcher’s rise to power and when she became prime minister she followed their programme. This success allowed the IEA to fundraise from industry giants—including oil and tobacco. Friedrich von Hayek, the architect of a Thatcherism defined by its the privatisation, tax breaks and strike breaking, would be officially recognised […]
Site C Dam Proposal Puts Treaty Commitments to the Test
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. B.C. First Nations chiefs recently travelled to Ottawa to urge the federal government to pull the plug on the costliest infrastructure project in the country. At an estimated $7.9 billion and growing, the proposed Site C Dam on the beautiful Peace River in northeastern B.C. has been criticized for […]
Meet Lord Lawson's Shy Climate Denial Funders – Neil Record
BY HELEN NIANIAS Neil Record founded Record Consultancy Management, which oversees more than £19.3 billion in client exposures, and has recently been revealed as a major donor to a Tory-led climate change denial group led by Nigel Lawson. Record describes the euro as “the bomb about to explode”, but doesn’t think there is any chance that global […]
Oil and Rail Industries Still Fighting Oil Train Safety Measures 23 Years and Counting
On the final day of the public comment period for the new proposed oil-by-rail regulations, the oil industry came out swinging. At a press conference held by American Petroleum Institute (API) president Jack Gerard, Gerard said: “Overreacting creates more challenges than safety.” One of the main “overreactions” Gerard and the API want to avoid is the […]
Science Is Clear: Reducing Carbon Emissions Will Save Lives
While governments all over the globe continue to squabble about how to address greenhouse gas pollution – or, in some instances, whether or not to even address the issue – a new report delivers some much needed good news: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions will save lives. The report, titled Health Co-Benefits of Carbon Standards for Existing […]
Disrupt Denial: After Leaving ALEC, Google Still Funding Evil
Last week, one tech giant after the next cut ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), creating a mass exodus from the anti-government front group that routinely drafts legislation to bolster the fossil fuel industry and inhibit climate action and clean energy development. While the withdrawal of Google, Yahoo, Facebook and others from ALEC’s vast […]
Time to Teach Lord Leach About Climate Science!
DeSmoggers asked to teach Lord Leach the errors of climate denial scientists S Fred Singer and Richard Lindzen and help stem the funding to the Global Warming Policy Foundation. Libertarian banker Lord Leach is a stalwart ‘spiritual’ supporter of Lord Lawson’s Global Warming Policy Foundation who has been influenced by climate deniers S Fred Singer and […]
Meet Lord Lawson's Shy Climate Denial Funders – Lord Leach
BY HELEN NIANIAS The Tory life peer, Charles Guy Rodney Leach, Baron Leach of Fairford—or Lord Leach for short—knows how to make the best of friends in high places. The Harrow- and Oxford-educated banker has used his considerable wealth and connections to make sure he stays on top, and describes “those in the 40 per cent […]