Anne Jordan

Anne Jordan Credentials Background Anne Jordan is vice president of the Canada Health Alliance, a Canadian anti-vaccine, anti-lockdown group. The group was involved in production of a video that, fact checkers found, included “misleading claims about variants of [COVID-19] and immunity, and recommends treatments that have not been proven effective against the virus,” such as […]

Canadian Energy Centre (CEC)

Canadian Energy Centre Background The Canadian Energy Centre (CEC) is an Alberta provincial government corporation formed to promote the province’s fossil fuel industry, in part by fighting what it has described as “domestic and foreign-funded campaigns against Canada’s oil and gas industry.” At its launch on December 11, 2019, the CEC was referred to as […]

SecondStreet.org

SecondStreet.org Background SecondStreet.org was founded by Troy Lanigan and Mark Milke in 2017. In 2018 it obtained the seed funding to hire its president, Colin Craig and was publicly launched in February 2019, “After a short period of capacity building that included development of a student internship program,” its 2022 “Case for Support” and annual […]

Pierre Poilievre

Pierre Poilievre Credentials Background Pierre Marcel Poilievre is a member of the Canadian Parliament representing Carleton riding near Ottawa, Ontario. Polievre, a member of the Conservative Party, has served in various roles in the Conservative Party’s shadow cabinet, including Shadow Minister for Finance and Shadow Minister for […]

Net Zero Scrutiny Group

Background The Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG) is made up of backbench Conservative MPs, including former government ministers, and opposes many of the government’s net zero policies. The NZSG was formed in 2021 ahead of the UN COP26 climate summit, hosted by the UK in Glasgow, Scotland, and publicly launched in January 2022. The NZSG […]

The Steamboat Institute

The Steamboat Institute Background The Steamboat Institute is a conservative 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded on March 4, 2008. According to its website, the group was founded  “out of genuine concern […]

Craig Mackinlay

Credentials Background Craig Mackinlay was been the Conservative MP for South Thanet between 2015-2024, and was awarded a peerage in July 2024.2Kate Whannel. “Theresa May and ‘bionic’ MP awarded peerages,” BBC News, July 4, 2024. Archived July 5, […]

CAR26

Background CAR26 is a UK climate science denial group that formed shortly before the COP26 climate summit held in Glasgow, Scotland. It claims to call for “informed rational analysis of Climate matters with an irreverent satirical spin – poking fun and calling out hypocrisy”. The group’s tagline is “Climate. Analysis. Reason”.1“Welcome to CAR26.org,” CAR26. Archived […]

Fertilizers Europe

Background Fertilizers Europe (FE) is a trade group representing the fertilizer industry in the European Union.  According to its website, FE represents 16 corporate members, including German agrichemical giant BASF and Norwegian fertilizer company Yara, as well as seven national fertilizer associations. Yara and BASF are major producers of fossil fuel-based fertilizers, also called mineral […]

Yara

Background Yara International ASA is a Norwegian fertilizer company headquartered in Oslo. The company was founded in 1905 “to solve the emerging famine in Europe” and claims to be the world’s only agrichemical “crop nutrition” company with a sole focus on the production of fertilizers since its establishment. The company’s global annual revenues for 2021 […]