Alberta school headed by former Harper advisor Bruce Carson ran up $1.3 million operating tab

Alberta school headed by former Harper advisor Bruce Carson ran up $1.3 million operating tab by Mike De Souza, Postmedia News, July 31, 2012, Calgary Herald
A federally-funded research partnership that actively promoted oil and gas companies reported spending more than $1.3 million on salaries, office expenses and travel in 2011, coinciding with the departure of its executive director who is now in the middle of an ethics and lobbying controversy. Bruce Carson, a former adviser to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, headed the Alberta-based Canada School of Energy and Environment that promoted research collaborations between three universities in the province until he was prompted to leave because of unrelated allegations of inappropriate lobbying of the government on behalf of a company promoting water treatment technology and services.

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