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W. Brett Wilson

W. Brett Wilson Credentials Background William (W.) Brett Wilson is an investment banker and was formerly listed as chairman of Canoe Financial and Prairie Merchant Corporation. He co-founded FirstEnergy Capital Corp. in 1993. FirstEnergy Capital provides “investment-banking services to Canada’s oil […]

Group SJR

Background Group SJR is part of the WPP group of companies. Group SJR’s current clients include ExxonMobil and Drax, […]

Dentsu

Background Dentsu is a Japanese advertising and public relations holding company. Dentsu is the fifth-largest advertising agency group in the world and the largest in Japan. Dentsu’s national operations in Japan were previously handled separately from the global business, known […]

Agractie

Background Agractie is a Dutch farmers’ protest group founded in 2019 by sheep farmer Bart Kemp in direct response to the Dutch government’s plans to reduce the country’s nitrogen pollution by cutting livestock numbers. […]

Farmers Defence Force

Background Farmers Defence Force (FDF) is a radical farming activist group in the Netherlands and Belgium, founded by Dutch pig and fruit farmer Mark van den Oever in May 2019. According to Van den Oever, he started the group in direct response to the occupation of pig breeding facilities in Boxtel, Netherlands by animal rights […]

BoerBurgerBeweging (BBB)

Background BoerBurgerBeweging (BBB) – or “Farmer-Citizen Movement” in English – is an agrarian right-wing populist party in the Netherlands, founded in response to the 2019 Dutch farmer protests. The party was established in November 2019 by agricultural journalist Caroline van der […]

Andrew Coyne

Andrew Coyne Profile Image Patar knight, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Credentials Background Andrew Coyne is a columnist at The Globe and Mail, former editor of Maclean’s magazine, and former editor1James Bradshaw. “Andrew Coyne exits editor role at National Post over endorsement,” The Globe and Mail, October 19, 2015. Archived April 8, 2024. […]

Together

Background  The Together Association is a right-wing campaign group in the UK initially founded by businessman Alan D. Miller in August 2021 as a platform to oppose COVID-19 vaccine measures. […]

Reuters Plus & Reuters Events

Background Reuters Plus is the in-house advertising studio for the news outlet Reuters and has created campaigns for fossil fuel clients, including Aramco, the UAE’s state oil company ADNOC,2“Welcome to Future Energy Talks,” Reuters Plus YouTube Account, August 23, 2023. Archived […]

Tom Nelson

Tom Nelson

 Tom Nelson Credentials Background Tom Nelson produced the 2024 film Climate: The Movie (The Cold Truth), directed by Martin Durkin, who was also behind The Great Global Warming Swindle (2007). Nelson described himself on Substack as “a […]