Thread by @DrJeremyWalker

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BREAKING: Seymour interview w/-Mihi Forbes:

At 13.10 she asks about ACT links to #AtlasNetwork thinktanks. He says its a crazy conspiracy, flat denies it. Here he is with Atlas CEO Brad Lips at an 'Atlas Thinktank MBA' event. Frontier Centre a 🇨🇦Atlas org.

#toitūtetiriti

2/ Seymour was by 2008 with the Frontier Centre: one of 12 organisations listed in the Atlas global partner directory in Canada. In 2010, he was their 'senior policy analyst'.


desmog.com/frontier-centr…
web.archive.org/web/2020061000…

3/Seymour says ACT has no association with #AtlasNetwork. ACT co-founder Roger Douglas is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society, as are most Atlas thinktank exec directors. He appears on@DeSmog's list of Frontier 'expert advisors' w/-Ruth Richardson (now on Taxpayers Union board)

4/ Here's the interview with MATA Report's Mihingarangi Forbes | David Seymour at Waitangi | RNZ
see from 13:10 mins

5/ Consistent with the pattern of Atlas funding from fossil fuel corporations to defeat climate policy around the world, Frontier does anti-science disinfo & attacks on climate scientists. Was Seymour still there in 2011-2012?

desmog.com/frontier-centr…

6/ Here's a 2019 bio on the NZ Business & Parliament Trust page: "David worked in Canada for 5 yrs as a policy analyst for Frontier Centre for Public Policy and Manning".

Manning is yet another Atlas thinktank (see above)

web.archive.org/web/2020011714…

7/ Manning Centre (now Canada Strong & Proud) is well integrated with promoters of the disastrously polluting Alberta oilsands projects.


..unsurprsingly now running campaigns against electric cars. corporatemapping.ca/profiles/manni…
strongandproud.ca/carban

8/- Another 🇨🇦 Atlas unit Macdonald Laurier, campaigned against implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. First Nations' unwillingness to allow destruction of their lands & waters are an obstacle to big oil around the world. theguardian.com/environment/20…

9/ As I have demonstrated in this peer-reviewed article, almost the entire NO referendum campaign against First Nations's hopes for constitutional recognition Voice and Treaty in Australia, was run by oil/mining founded Atlas thinktanks and actors.

researchgate.net/publication/37…

10/ NZ Taxpayers Union, another Atlas outfit, helped catalyse protests against Māori co-governance & the Three Waters reforms... arguably leading to the resignation of PM Jacinda Ardern.

Who benefits from attacks on Māori environmental stewardship, climate policy and EV's?

11/ Atlas affiliate NZ Initiative chair: Roger Partridge (MPS) of Bell Gully law firm. A corporate member of NZ oil & gas lobby Energy Aotearoa, Bell Gully designed the arguably ineffective NZ ETS.
Why does NZI oppose all other climate policy initiatives?
energyresources.org.nz/about-us/our-m…

12/ Kiwis must question the motives of those working through shadowy orgs & networks to 'divide by race', overturn NZ's world-leading climate & environment laws & rewrite Aotearoa's constitutional settlement

#ToitūTetiriti #NZpol #ClimateEmergency #EndFossilFuels #AtlasNetwork

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