The Fraser Institute

Background

The Fraser Institute is a libertarian think tank based in Vancouver, British Columbia. They describe themselves as a “independent Canadian public policy research and educational organization with active research ties with similar independent organizations in more than 80 countries around the world.”¹

The institute’s mandate is to measure and study “the impact of markets and government interventions on the welfare of individuals.” They offer a range of programs and initiatives, workshops and seminars, as well as “dynamic events” featuring “internationally acclaimed economists and influential policy figures, such as Margaret Thatcher, Danish environmentalist Bjørn Lomborg, and Milton Friedman.”²

Stance on Climate Change

“The actual climate change in many locations has been relatively small and within the range of known natural variability. There is no compelling evidence that dangerous or unprecedented changes are underway.” ³

A Fraser Institute paper (PDF) authored by climate change skeptic Ross McKitrick suggests that “there has been no statistically significant temperature change for the past 15 to 20 years.”⁴

There is speculation that the Fraser Institute may have influenced the Canadian Conservative Party’s climate change policies:

“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.”⁵

Funding

The Conservative Transparency project totals the Fraser Institute’s funding as follows. Note that not all individual values have been verified by DeSmog.⁶

View the attached spreadsheet for additional information on the Fraser Institute’s funding by year (.xlsx).

Donor	Total
Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation	$1,669,721
Aurea Foundation	$1,638,330
Searle Freedom Trust	$850,000
John Templeton Foundation	$694,862
Pierre F. and Enid Goodrich Foundation	$300,000
Chase Foundation of Virginia	$265,061
Sarah Scaife Foundation	$225,000
Exxon Mobil	$120,000
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation	$95,080
The Carthage Foundation	$50,000
Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation	$30,000
Blair Foundation	$11,000
John M. Olin Foundation	$10,000
Grand Total	$5,959,054

Archived Funding

Early data is also available from the original Media Matters database, archived in 2011.⁷

Koch Funding

The Vancouver Observer previously found that the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation has donated $625,500 to the Fraser Institute since 2007. In 2012, Alexis Stoymenoff of The Vancouver Observer later reported that the Fraser Institute had received $500 from the Koch Brothers within a four year period. She wrote:⁸

“According to U.S. tax documents, The Fraser Institute received $150,000 from the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation in 2008, $175,500 in 2009, and another $150,000 in 2010. The grants were purportedly for “research support” and “educational programs.”⁹

Fraser Institute co-founder and former executive director Michael Walker confirmed to the Vancouver Observer in 2012 that the group had in fact been receiving funding from the Koch Foundation for many years, saying:¹⁰

“I know the grant from the Koch Foundation is for our international work, but I can’t tell you which of the projects … it’s funding.”¹¹

Greenpeace also tracks the Fraser Institute’s Koch funding by year.¹²

Year	Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation	Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation	Grand Total
*1992	$18,221		$18,221
*1993		$5,000	$5,000
2007		$25,000	$25,000
2008	$150,000		$150,000
2009	$175,500		$175,500
2010	$150,000		$150,000
2011	$150,000		$150,000
2012	$115,000		$115,000
2014	$300,000		$300,000
2015	$26,000		$26,000
2016	$200,000		$200,000
2017	$150,000		$150,000
2018	$235,000		$235,000
Grand Total	$1,669,721	$30,000	$1,699,721

Aurea Foundation Funding

DeSmogBlog notes that the Fraser Institute has been consistently funded by the Aurea Foundation. Aurea was founded by Peter Munk, the head of Barrick Gold, and is a major funder of a small but influential network of free-market think tanks in Canada, including (but not limited to): The Fraser Institute, the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, the Frontier Center for Public Policy, the Montreal Economic Institute and the MacDonald Laurier Institute.¹³

Publicly available data from the Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA) shows that the Fraser Institute received more than $1.6 million from the Aurea Foundation since 2006:

Year	Donation
2014	$260,000
2013	$260,000
2012	$125,000
2011	$433,330
2010	$50,000
2009	$160,000
2008	$100,000
2007	$250,000
Total	$1,638,330

990 Forms

Annual Reports

Key People

Senior Fellows

As of July, 2015, Fraser Institute Senior Fellows included the following:¹⁴

Michael Walker — Executive Director of the Fraser Institute from its inception in 1974 until September 2005.
Vicki Alger — Director of the Women for School Choice Project at the Independent Women’s Forum
Derek J. Allison
Gerry Angevine — Senior Fellow in the Fraser Institute’s Centre for Energy and Natural Resource Studies.
Sonia Arrison
Professor Eugene Beaulieu
Dr. Brett Belchetz
Nicholas Bloom
Lynn Bosetti
Donald Boudreaux — Professor of Economics and former Economics Department Chair at George Mason University
Martin Collacott
Livio Di Matteo
John Dobra — Founding Director of the Natural Resource Industry Institute
Alan Dowd — Senior Editor of Fraser Insight, Past director of Hudson Institute’s corporate headquarters
Stephen T. Easton
Joel Emes
Nadeem Esmail
Tawni Ferrarini
Tom Flanagan
Jonathan Fortier — Was a Fellow with Liberty Fund for three years and was Senior Director of Academic Initiatives at the Institute for Humane Studies
Glenn Fox
Todd Gabel
Steven Globerman
Wilf Gobert
John R. Graham — Also Senior Fellow of the National Center for Policy Analysis and an Adjunct Scholar of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Herbert Grubel
James D. Gwartney — Directs the Stavros Center for the Advancement of Free Enterprise and Economic Education
Csaba Hajdu — Principal of Paprika Consulting Inc., which provides economic research and statistical services primarily for the forestry industry in Western Canada.
Joshua C. Hall
Michael Harris
David R. Henderson — Research fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University
Steven Horwitz
Jerry Jordan
Lynne Kiesling
Stephen Kirchner — Research fellow at Australia’s Centre for Independent Studies
Rainer Knopff
Marc Law
Robert A. Lawson — Served as president of the Association of Private Enterprise Education and is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society
Danny Le Roy
Kristina Lybecker
Preston Manning — Member of the Canadian Parliament from 1993 to 2001
Ross McKitrick
Jean-Luc Migué
Lydia Miljan
Alexander Moens
Robert P. Murphy
Robert Ouellet
Filip Palda
Sandra Peart — Past visiting scholar at the Center for Study of Public Choice at George Mason University
Nigel Rawson
Chris Sarlo
David Schmidtz
Pierre Simard
Aeon J. Skoble
Cornelis “Kees” van Kooten
Joel Wood
Moin Yahya
Paul Zak

Senior Research Staff

As of July 2015, Senior Research Staff included the following:¹⁵

Niels Veldhuis — President
Jason Clemens — Executive Vice President
Peter Cowley — Vice President of Strategic Initiatives and Director of School Performance Studies
Ravina Bains — Associate Director, Aboriginal Policy Studies
Bacchus Barua — Senior Economist, Health Policy Studies
Ben Eisen — Senior Policy Analyst
Kenneth P. Green — Senior Director, Centre for Natural Resources
Charles Lammam — Director, Fiscal Studies
Fred McMahon — Resident Fellow, Dr. Michael A. Walker Research Chair in Economic Freedom
Deani A. Neven Van Pelt — Director, Barbara Mitchell Centre for Improvement in Education
Milagros Palacios — Senior Research Economist, Fiscal Studies

Board of Directors

As of July, 2015, the Fraser Institute’s Board of Directors included the following:¹⁶

Peter Brown — Chairman
Mark W. Mitchell — Vice Chairman
Rod Senft — Vice Chairman
Salem Ben Nasser Al Ismaily
Gordon E. Arnell
Kathy Assayag
Joni Avram
Ryan Beedie
Edward Belzberg
Brad Bennett
Joseph C. Canavan
Alex A. Chafuen
Derwood S. Chase, Jr.
Tracie Crook
James W. Davidson
W. Robert Farquharson
Dave Filmon
Greg C. Fleck
Shaun Francis
Ned Goodman
Peter Grosskopf
John A. Hagg
Claudia Hepburn
Paul Hill
Stephen A. Hynes
Charles A. Jeannes
C. Kent Jespersen
Andrew Judson
Hassan Khosrowshahi
Craig Langdon
Pierre H. Lessard
Brandt Louie
David R. Mackenzie
James L. McGovern
Tracey McVicar
George Melville
Gwyn Morgan
Eleanor Nicholls
John O’Neill
Sue Paish
Herbert C. Pinder, Jr.
Ron Poelzer
H. Sanford Riley
Frank Rochon
William W. Siebens
Anna Stylianides
Arni C. Thorsteinson
Jonathan Wener
Michael A. Walker — Honourary Board Member
T. Patrick Boyle — Founder and Honourary Chairman for Life

Past Staff

Michael Walker, President, Fraser Institute Foundation, and Senior Fellow.
Kenneth Green — Past Chief Scientist (2002 – 2005) and previous head of Fraser Institute’s “Environmental Literacy Council.” Also Past “Co-ordinating editor” of the Fraser Forum.¹⁷ ¹⁸ ¹⁹
Willie Soon — Contributing author. Past member of Fraser institute’s “CANSTAT” advisory board from 2002 to at least 2005.²⁰ ²¹
Barry Cooper — Past Director, Alberta Policy Research Centre, and past Senior Fellow.²²
Dennis T. Avery — Contributor.

The Fraser Institute has ties a wide range of high-profile climate change skeptics and proponents of the oil and gas industries. For example, as reported in the Vancouver Obsever: Beth Hong.²³

“Ezra Levant, a Sun media columnist and author of Ethical Oil, came to intern at the Fraser Institute after a fellowship with the Koch Foundation. Kathryn Marshall, political commentator and former Ethical Oil spokesperson, was a development associate at the Fraser Institute. Wildrose leader Danielle Smith took on an internship with the Fraser Institute during her twenties that ‘imbued her with a passion for Ayn Rand and charter schools’, according to a Walrus article. She became an intern with the encouragement of Tom Flanagan, a Fraser Institute senior fellow and Stephen Harper mentor. Vancouver Sun editorial pages editor and columnist Fazil Milhar is the former regulatory studies director at the Fraser Institute.”

Past Directors

In a 2010 investigation, DeSmog found that 9 of the Fraser Institute’s 47 directors could be clearly linked to the oil, gas, and coal industries:²⁴

William (Bill) Siebens founded Siebens Oil and Gas Ltd in the 1950s and is still at it. His lifetime of extracting fossil fuels earned him a spot in the Canadian Petroleum Hall of Fame.²⁵

Roger Phillips sits on the board of directors of Imperial Oil, Canada’s largest oil company. Imperial is 70% owned by ExxonMobil and has a 25% stake in Syncrude Canada, the largest producer of oil from tar sands.²⁶ ²⁷

John Dielwart is a founding member and past President and CEO (until Jan 1, 2014) of Arc Energy Trusts, one of Canada’s largest conventional oil and gas royalty trusts. He is currently Vice-Chairman of ARC Financial Corp.²⁸

Paul Hill is the Chairman, President and CEO of the Hill Companies. According to his bio, he is a past director of Canada Trust, North Canadian Oils Ltd., Shopping.com, US Forest Industries, the Canadian Forces Liaison Committee and the Asia Pacific Foundation to name a few. He is a member of the World Presidents and Chief Executives Organizations.²⁹

Gwyn Morgan is the former director, President and CEO of EnCana Corporation, one of North America’s largest natural gas producers. Morgan has been described as one of the most powerful men in the oil patch and spent his lifetime building an oil empire in Alberta.³⁰

Herbert Pinder has been a director of ARC Resources since 2006 and also serves as director for “a number of private energy companies,” according to his ARC Energy Trusts bio.³¹

Also on Fraser’s board are Charles Barlow of gas exploration company Barlow Brothers Ltd; R. Jack Pirie who is associated with private oil company Sabre Energy Ltd.; and John Hagg, CEO of tar sands extractor Northstar Energy (later merged with Devon Energy Corporation).

Actions

March 18, 2021

PressProgress reported that a Fraser Institute report by Ross McKitrick and Almira Aliakbari titled “Estimated Impacts of a $170 Carbon Tax in Canada” was uncritically cited by a major newspaper chain in British Columbia.³² ³³

The report claimed a federal carbon tax of $170 per tonne by 2030 would “cause a 1.8% drop in Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which works out to about $1,540 in current dollars per employed person, and the loss of about 184,000 jobs nationwide.”³⁴

PressProgress noted the report was repeated by Victoria News columnist Tom Fletcher, who cited the report to suggest the tax will cost “more than 20,000 jobs” in BC.³⁵

April 7, 2020

As reported at PressProgress, the Fraser Institute was among Koch-funded groups who have used the COVID pandemic as reason to promote the use of plastic bags over reusable bags. In an email with the title “Suddenly, plastic is looking pretty good again,” the Fraser Institute linked to a study by senior fellow Ross McKitrick.³⁶

The email reads:³⁷

“It is easy to forget that much of our reliance on plastic packaging was motivated by the need for public hygiene.

“The coronavirus reminds us that public hygiene remains an important priority. Just weeks after banning plastic bags, New York Temporarily suspended implementation of the law, while urging people to remember to wash their reusable cloth bags.

“The Fraser Institute’s Ross McKitrick has a great article about this in today’s Financial Post. Check it out below or read it here and please be sure to share it with your friends and colleagues!”³⁸

McKitrick’s full article appeared in the Financial Post on April 7.³⁹

“Would you want to buy a toothbrush from a bin that a hundred people rummaged through? As for disposable plastic water bottles, this is surely one of the great public health inventions of the modern age. They are remarkably cheap and they save us the ordeal of shared public water fountains,” McKitrick wrote.

“Whether or not a ban on plastic bags has big implications for public health, the better question to ask is whether it (or similar bans on single-use plastics) will do any good for the world’s oceans,” McKitrick added. “The answer is no. Canada’s single-use plastics are not the source of ocean contamination. Banning them will impose costs and inconvenience here while doing nothing to fix the problem.”“

“[F]or those who have lamented our use of plastic packaging over the years, it’s understandable, especially since the marketers sometimes make excessive use of the stuff. But the coronavirus shows that public hygiene was, and remains, an important priority, and we downplay it at our peril,” he concluded.

PressProgress notes that “the Fraser Institute’s claims about the health benefits of plastic bags miss their mark in significant ways” including that “there have been no specific scientific studies looking into whether bags made of any material, cloth or plastic, are actually spreading COVID-19.”⁴⁰

“In fact, a recent study found COVID-19 lives significantly longer on plastic surfaces than it does on paper or cloth, a point that would appear to contradict the premise of the Fraser Institute’s argument.”⁴¹

Looking at groups in the US, Mother Jones has suggested “the timing of these messages suggests a concerted public relations campaign by the plastic industry,” highlighting groups like the Manhattan Institute, Competitive Enterprise Institute, and Independent Women’s Forum.⁴²

December 6, 2016

The Fraser Institute released its “Global Petroleum Survey” for 2016, co-authored by Keneth P. Green, Taylor Jackson, and Kyle Sholes.⁴³

According to the Fraser Institute press release, the report surveyed petroleum industry executives and managers “regarding barriers to investment in oil and gas exploration and production facilities in various jurisdictions around the globe.”⁴⁴

View the full report (PDF) here.⁴⁵

October 2016

The Fraser Institute’s Kenneth Green wrote in the AusIMM Bulletin on the results of the Fraser Institute’s Annual Mining Survey.⁴⁶

“A well-developed mining sector can produce great economic and community benefits,” Green begins. “To encourage a robust development of the mining sector, governments must put forth attractive and competitive policies.”⁴⁷

The Fraser Institute, which has been doing such surveys since 1997, talked to mining company presidents, vice presidents, and managers to capture executive opinion on investment.⁴⁸

July 5, 2015

Kenneth Green, the Fraser Institute’s Senior Director for the Centre for Natural Resources, weighed in on Pope Francis’s Encyclical on the Environment in an opinion article for The Province.

According to Green, “while the encyclical might discuss a lot of environmental issues, it doesn’t offer much in the way of factual support.” Making the argument that capitalism has improved environmental protection, he continues that “if [Pope Francis] really wants the people of Earth to breathe clean air, drink clean water, protect critical ecosystems, and protect endangered species he could have given them much better advice, including advocating for ever-greater levels of democracy and economic freedom.”⁴⁹

April 25, 2015

Kenneth Green and Taylor Jackson, Senior Director and Policy Analyst, respectively, at the Fraser Institute wrote an opinion piece for The Vancouver Sun titled “Renewables: All pain, little gain.”

They make the case that renewable energy, including hydroelectric sources, should be avoided because they could lead to higher prices. They cite research by economist Ross McKitrick to support their views.⁵⁰

The Vancouver Sun published responses to the piece in an article titled “Renewable energy has a bright future.” It included a response by Merran Smith, Executive Director of Clean Energy Canada, who concluded that “Kenneth Green and Taylor Jackson must have turned over more than a few rocks in their effort to argue that renewable energy is driving up electricity prices because a growing mountain of evidence points to the contrary.”⁵¹

April 23, 2015

Writing for the “full comment” section of the National Post, the Fraser Institute’s Kenneth Green suggests that while Canada will likely miss its Copenhagen emissions targets set in 2009, this might not necessarily be a significant problem. According to Green, “this is less about Canada being an environmental laggard, and more a problem with agreeing to politically derived targets you have no idea how to hit.”⁵²

He goes on to highlight the “good news” in that GDP increase has increased by 71%, making for a “great trend in emissions intensity.” By “letting markets do what they do best,” as opposed to focusing on emissions standards, Green says that emissions will decline on their own due to technological growth.

April 2015

The Fraser Institute’s Senior Director for the Centre for Natural Resources, Kenneth Green, spoke to The Vancouver Sun about how there is a supposed “18-year temperature pause.”⁵³

According to Green, the IPCC process is “corrupted,” and that mainstream climate scientists have become “activists.” Green comments that since 1979, global temperatures have “no significant trend” and there has been a “pause” in the temperature record. He continues to state arguments commonly used by skeptics including that “the climate has always changed,” that “the [temperature] models, themselves, are wrong.”

Green says that he is not a “denier” of the science behind climate change, and that “we are probably causing a mild warming,” however not enough to cause concern.

October 30, 2014

The Fraser Institute released a report by Ross McKitrick and Tom Adams, titled “What Goes Up,” which recommends that the government look at a moratorium and new wind and solar power facilities as well as re-open four coal burning power plants to curb increases in electricity prices. See the whole report here (PDF).

The Toronto Sun reports how the provincial government did not heed the Fraser Institute’s report and continues to pursue wind and solar energy projects.⁵⁴

February 5, 2008

The Fraser Institute hosted Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist on a cross-country speaking tour.⁵⁵

October 16, 2008

The Fraser Institute hosted (PDF) Ezra Levant, since author of the controversial book Ethical Oil, in Calgary as part of its “Behind the Spin” speaker series.⁵⁶

February 5, 2007

The Fraser Institute released their Independent Summary For Policymakers (ISPM) report shortly after the official Independent Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) released their own Summary for Policy Makers which was part of their Fourth Assessment Report on Climate Change (AR4).⁵⁷

The current version of the ISPM report, revised in March, 2007, is available on the Fraser Institute Website. The original version, with additional notes and critiques by RealClimate, can be viewed here (PDF).

The Center for Media and Democracy’s SourceWatch also documents a list of the errors and discrepancies in the Fraser Institute’s original report.

The following were contributors or editors to the report:

Ross McKitrick (Coordinator)

Writing Team

January 1, 2003

The Fraser Institute published an issue of the Fraser Forum devoted to “The Politics, Science, and Economics of Kyoto” (PDF). Authors who contributed to this issue included prominent climate change deniers Sallie Baliunas, Barry Cooper, Kenneth Green, Ross McKitrick, and Willie Soon.

According to the editor, “The issue also explains, in as clear and non-technical a language as possible, the scientific reasons why the Kyoto Protocol is unsound.”

Although the issue focuses on Kyoto, Sallie Balliunas and Willie Soon also co-published an an article skeptical of man-made climate change titled “The Varying Sun & Climate Change.”⁵⁸

Fraser Institute Contact & Location

The Fraser Institute has headquarters in Vancouver, BC, and maintains offices in Calgary, Toronto, and Montreal. Their main contact address is below:⁵⁹

Vancouver Office
4th Floor, 1770 Burrard Street, Vancouver BC Canada
V6J 3G7
Tel: (604) 688-0221
Fax: (604) 688-8539

Fraser Forum
Cooler Heads Coalition (member)

@FraserInstitute on Twitter.
“The Fraser Institute” on Facebook.
“The Fraser Institute” on LinkedIn.

Other Resources

“Fraser Institute,” Wikipedia article.
“Fraser Institute,” SourceWatch profile.
ExxonSecrets Factsheet: Fraser Institute.

Resources

1
“Who We Are,” Fraser Institute. Archived August 13, 2015. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/KNO3l
2
“What We Do,” Fraser Institute. Archived August 13, 2015.
3
“Independent Summary for Policymakers IPCC Fourth Assessment Report” (PDF), The Fraser Institute, February 5, 2007. Republished with annotations by RealClimate. Archived December 29, 2010.
4
Ross Mckittrick. “ClimatePolicy Implications of the Hiatus in Global Warming” (PDF), Fraser Institute, October, 2014.
5
Bruce Livesey. “How Canada made the Koch brothers rich,“ National Observer, May 5, 2015. Archived August 13, 2015. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/s2Oos
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“Fraser Institute,” Conservative Transparency. Accessed August, 2015.
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“Fraser Institute,” Conservative Transperancy. Archived October 4, 2011.
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Jenny Uechi. “Koch foundation donated again to Fraser Institute in 2011, U.S. tax records show,” Vancouver Observer, October 31, 2013. Archived August 13, 2015. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/tt1gr
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Alexis Stoymenoff. “’Charitable’ Fraser Institute accepted 0k in foreign funding from Koch oil billionaires,” Vancouver Observer, April 25, 2012. Archived January 3, 2013. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/0IHO0
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Daniel Tencer. “Koch Brothers, Tea Party Billionaires, Donated To Right-Wing Fraser Institute, Reports Show,” Huffington Post Canada, March 21, 2014. Archived May 7, 2019. Archive.is URL: https://archive.fo/GwAE3
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Daniel Tencer. “Koch Brothers, Tea Party Billionaires, Donated To Right-Wing Fraser Institute, Reports Show,” Huffington Post Canada, March 21, 2014. Archived May 7, 2019. Archive.is URL: https://archive.fo/GwAE3
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“Fraser Institute: Koch Industries Climate Denial Front Group,” Greenpeace USA. Archived March 14, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/W1tyu
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Kevin Grandia. “Andrew Coyne’s Connections to Free Market Think Tanks; Disclosure Lacking,” DeSmogBlog, October 12, 2012.
14
“Fraser Institute Senior and Visiting Fellows,” Fraser Institute. Archived July 23, 2015. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/nYm85
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“Who We Are: Staff: Senior Research Staff,” Fraser Institute. Archived July 27, 2015. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/2WTEu
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“Who We Are: Board of Directors,” Fraser Institute. Archived July 27, 2015. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/cBqlw
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“Climate-change ‘skeptics’ hopeful Harper accepts their view,” Canwest News Service, October 16, 2006. Archived August 13, 2015. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/52Jc0
18
“Senior Research Staff,” The Fraser Institute. Archived March 10, 2004. Archive URL:https://archive.ph/9aIe5
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Fraser Forum, January 2003 (PDF).
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Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon. “Can Climate Models Predict Future Weather?“ Fraser Institute, January 16, 2001. Archive URL:https://archive.vn/BUEdT
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“CASE STUDY: Dr. Willie Soon, a Career Fueled by Big Oil and Coal,” Greenpeace.
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“Senior Research Staff,” The Fraser Institute. Archived March 10, 2004. Archive URL:https://archive.ph/9aIe5
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“Dramatic turnaround from leading climate change skeptic blows open debate,” Vancouver Observer, August 10, 2012. Archived August 13, 2015. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/MwS4b
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Brendan DeMelle. “Squadron of Oil Industry Executives on Fraser Institute Board,” DeSmogBlog, April 19, 2010.
25
“Bill Siebens,” Canadian Petroleum Hall of Fame. Archived August 13, 2015. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/vMLWT
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“Exxon Looking To Maintain, Not Increase, Imperial Ownership Percentage,” Seeking Alpha, May 24, 2007. Archived September 8, 2008. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/cppBH
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“Syncrude Athabasca Oil Sands Mine, Alberta, Canada,” Mining-technology.com. Archived August 13, 2015. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/FaI28
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“Board Committees,” ARC Resources LTD. Archived August 13, 2015. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/YfmjY
29
“Executive,” The Hill Companies. Archived August 13, 2015. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/EqOQC
30
“Morgan, Gwynn (Profile),” The Canadian Encyclopedia Historica. Archived September 26, 2008. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/JD7T5
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“Board Committees,” ARC Resources LTD. Archived August 13, 2015. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/MtnRO
32
“Local BC Newspapers are Promoting Junk Research From the Fraser Institute’s Anti-Climate Science Expert,” PressProgress, March 18, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/mmZdT
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“ESTIMATED IMPACTS OF A 0 CARBON TAX IN CANADA” (PDF), Fraser Institute, 2021. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“ESTIMATED IMPACTS OF A 0 CARBON TAX IN CANADA” (PDF), Fraser Institute, 2021. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“Local BC Newspapers are Promoting Junk Research From the Fraser Institute’s Anti-Climate Science Expert,” PressProgress, March 18, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/mmZdT
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“Fraser Institute Uses Coronavirus Pandemic to Push Dubious Claims About the Health Benefits of Plastic Bags,” PressProgress, April 8, 2020. Archived April 9, 2020. Archive URL:https://archive.vn/4uD1d
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“Fraser Institute Uses Coronavirus Pandemic to Push Dubious Claims About the Health Benefits of Plastic Bags,” PressProgress, April 8, 2020. Archived April 9, 2020. Archive URL:https://archive.vn/4uD1d
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“Fraser Institute Uses Coronavirus Pandemic to Push Dubious Claims About the Health Benefits of Plastic Bags,” PressProgress, April 8, 2020. Archived April 9, 2020. Archive URL:https://archive.vn/4uD1d
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Ross McKitrick: “Suddenly, plastic is looking pretty good again,” Financial Post, April 7, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/UmKYD
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“Fraser Institute Uses Coronavirus Pandemic to Push Dubious Claims About the Health Benefits of Plastic Bags,” PressProgress, April 8, 2020. Archived April 9, 2020. Archive URL:https://archive.vn/4uD1d
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“Fraser Institute Uses Coronavirus Pandemic to Push Dubious Claims About the Health Benefits of Plastic Bags,” PressProgress, April 8, 2020. Archived April 9, 2020. Archive URL:https://archive.vn/4uD1d
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Rebecca Leber. “How Big Plastic Is Using Coronavirus to Bring Back Wasteful Bags,” Mother Jones, March 27, 2020. Archived April 9, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/ROsCa
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“Global Petroleum Survey 2016,” Fraser Institute, December 6, 2016. Archived December 20, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/YZDr5
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“Global Petroleum Survey 2016,” Fraser Institute, December 6, 2016. Archived December 20, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/YZDr5
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Taylor Jackson, Kenneth P. Green, and Kyle Sholes. “Global Petroleum Survey 2016,” Fraser Institute, December, 2016. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
46
Kenneth P. Green. “Where is the most attractive for investment?” The AusIMM Bulletin, October 2016. Archived December 20, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/mEmaA
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Kenneth P. Green. “Where is the most attractive for investment?” The AusIMM Bulletin, October 2016. Archived December 20, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/mEmaA
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Kenneth P. Green. “Where is the most attractive for investment?” The AusIMM Bulletin, October 2016. Archived December 20, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/mEmaA
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“Kenneth Green: Pope wrong to link capitalism to pollution,” The Province, July 5, 2015. Archived August 13, 2015. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/BJ2Gw
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Kenneth P. Green and Taylor Jackson. “Opinion: Renewables: All pain, little gain,” The Vancouver Sun, April 25, 2015. Archived August 13, 2015. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/yjkz5
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“Saturday, May 2: Renewable energy has a bright future,” The Vancouver Sun, May 1, 2015. Archived August 13, 2015. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/EziEf
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Kenneth P. Green. “Kenneth P. Green: Canada is prosperous… and relatively green,” National Post, April 23, 2015. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/wip/P6Owz
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“Video: Skeptical of climate change computer models,” The Vancouver Sun, April 22, 2015. Archived August 13, 2015. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/WlJen
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Antonella Artuso. “Energy minister won’t heed Fraser Institute report,” Toronto Sun, October 30, 2014. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/HSWSi
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“Up Front: A skeptic’s view on climate change,” The Fraser Institute, February 5, 2008. Archived July 22, 2015.
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“Ezra Levant speaks freely, The Fraser Forum, November 3, 2008. Archived April 9, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/DpzLa
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“Independent summary of UN climate change report to be released in London on Monday, February 5,” The Fraser Institute, January 30, 2007. Archived March 23, 2007. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/vOdBX
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Fraser Forum, January 2003 Issue (PDF). The Fraser Institute.
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