Post by @AlisonCreekside@mstdn.ca

2026-03-29 20:54 UTC

How ‘The Charles Koch of Canada’ Created a $9.5 Million Influence Machine Former fracking magnate Gwyn Morgan has funnelled millions to right-wing media and think tanks. #FossilFuels https://www.desmog.com/2026/03/27/how-the-charles-koch-of-canada-created-a-9-5-million-influence-machine/

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@AlisonCreekside@mstdn.ca 2026-03-29 21:04

You young 'uns won't remember but in 1999, Gwynn Morgan, then president of Alberta Energy Company, colluded with the RCMP to set off a bomb that blew up a shed at a gas well site. They did this to try to entrap locals who were acting against the oil wells' sour gas leaks, and also to drum up public sympathy for the oil&gas company whose shed was blown up. #fossilFuels #cdnpoli The original plan was for Gwynn Morgan and the RCMP to blow up an oil tanker truck but Morgan was afraid it would prove too unnerving to truckers so they settled on a shed. There used to be a lot of CBC stories about this RCMP/oil&gas company conspiracy but I think this is the only one still standing: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/oil-company-defends-rcmp-collaboration-1.168596

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