Ah yes, disinformation at it’s best….not directly related to our Peninsula, but the folks that you meet in many public forums shouting against Climate Change, could do with a little fact checking of their own.
According to a report by Mike De Souza in the Vancouver Sun, a major Alberta-based oil and gas company helped to kick-start an elaborate public relations project designed to cast doubt on scientific evidence linking human activity to global warming with a $175,000 donation in 2004 channeled through the University of Calgary. The contribution was part of $507,975 raised to produce a video and engage in public relations, advertising and lobbying activities against the Kyoto Protocol and government measures to restrict fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
Read it here in the Vancouver Sun
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