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Big Oil and Think Tanks Besiege Kyoto
From: The Big Stall
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Examines the business led campaign to discredit the Kyoto Accord in the 1990s and 2000s. Big business lobbied for a "made in Canada" solution while funding a massive anti-Kyoto propaganda campaign. The result was that public support for the Accord fell off. Despite PM Chreitien ratifying, the business lobby moved to ensure that the implementation would be ineffective.
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Donald Gutstein
DONALD GUTSTEIN is a former professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University and co-director of NewsWatch Canada, a media-monitoring project at the school. He is the author of Harperism: How Stephen Harper and his think tank colleagues have transformed Canada as well as four other books on the links between large corporations, politics and the media. He lives in Vancouver.
