Natural Resources Stewardship Project
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The Natural Resources Stewardship Project is a Canadian non-profit organization that presents itself as undertaking "a proactive grassroots campaign to counter the Kyoto Protocol
and other greenhouse gas
reduction schemes while promoting sensible climate change policy." The group was founded in October 2005.
A report in the Toronto Star
on 2007-01-28 stated that the organization has not revealed who funds the Stewardship Project. The Guardian
and Vancouver Sun stated in 2008 that the organization is funded by energy firms.
Until April 2008, it was headed by global warming skeptic Tom Harris, formerly Ottawa director of the consulting firm High Park Group
, and, until later in 2008, Tim Ball, formerly Professor of Geography at the University of Winnipeg
. Harris has stated that the NRSP was set up on the initiative of the High Park Group.
NRSP has been mentioned in at least two op-ed pieces. http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/opinion/story.html?id=e749cc60-2e9d-4326-be3a-afdcd3a1a83a
According to the Toronto Star, the group has been described by critics as an Astroturf organization.
Kyoto Protocol
The Kyoto Protocol is a protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change , aimed at fighting global warming...
and other greenhouse gas
Greenhouse gas
A greenhouse gas is a gas in an atmosphere that absorbs and emits radiation within the thermal infrared range. This process is the fundamental cause of the greenhouse effect. The primary greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone...
reduction schemes while promoting sensible climate change policy." The group was founded in October 2005.
A report in the Toronto Star
Toronto Star
The Toronto Star is Canada's highest-circulation newspaper, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its print edition is distributed almost entirely within the province of Ontario...
on 2007-01-28 stated that the organization has not revealed who funds the Stewardship Project. The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
and Vancouver Sun stated in 2008 that the organization is funded by energy firms.
Until April 2008, it was headed by global warming skeptic Tom Harris, formerly Ottawa director of the consulting firm High Park Group
High Park Group
High Park Group is a public affairs and policy consulting firm with an office in Toronto. The firm took a leading role in the establishment of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project, an organization promoting global warming skepticism- Global Warming :...
, and, until later in 2008, Tim Ball, formerly Professor of Geography at the University of Winnipeg
University of Winnipeg
The University of Winnipeg is a public university in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada that offers undergraduate faculties of art, business and economics, education, science and theology as well as graduate programs. The U of W's founding colleges were Manitoba College and Wesley College, which merged...
. Harris has stated that the NRSP was set up on the initiative of the High Park Group.
NRSP has been mentioned in at least two op-ed pieces. http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/opinion/story.html?id=e749cc60-2e9d-4326-be3a-afdcd3a1a83a
According to the Toronto Star, the group has been described by critics as an Astroturf organization.