Ministers Helped ‘Stage Manage’ Shell’s Relocation to UK, Emails Show
Government ministers consulted closely with Shell over its move to London to avoid embarrassment over the COP26 climate summit, new documents reveal. The cache of emails, memos and meeting minutes, obtained via Freedom of Information requests by climate advocacy group Culture Unstained, shine a light on private communications between officials and the oil company in […]
Q&A: Cold War Foes Made Treaties to Limit the Spread of Nukes. Could a Similar Approach Wind Down Fossil Fuels?
To watch a video version of this interview, please register for the Climate Consciousness Summit 2024, staged by the Pocket Project in partnership with DeSmog. Could the world negotiate a wind-down of the fossil fuel industry — just as Cold War adversaries once agreed to limit their stockpiles of nuclear weapons? In an interview for the Climate […]
Fish Farming Industry is Using ‘Misleading’ Figures to Downplay its Role in Overfishing, New Research Finds
Aquaculture is the world’s fastest growing food sector – one that proponents have long argued can help conserve wild fisheries. The argument goes that farming seafood instead of catching it will provide respite to over-fished species at sea. Farmed fish themselves also need to eat, however. And some of the world’s most valuable species, like […]
Why Alberta Shouldn’t Be Celebrating Trump’s Election Win
Some on the political right in Canada have been quick to gloat over the re-election of Donald Trump as U.S. president. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith plans to attend his inauguration, publicly doubting that the government of Canada will adequately advocate for the oil patch. “For Alberta’s story to be told and Alberta’s interest to be […]
Climate Science Deniers Use Farmers’ Protests to Attack Net Zero
A network of conspiracy theorists has jumped on the inheritance tax debate to fuel an anti-green “culture war”, experts say. Thousands of farmers demonstrated in Westminster on Tuesday against the Labour government’s plans to remove an inheritance tax exemption on agricultural assets, with tractors blocking roads outside parliament. The policy, which raises inheritance tax on […]
Alberta Pledges Constitutional Showdown Over Emissions Cap
Just days after Alberta’s ruling United Conservative Party voted to abandon its net zero goals and recognize carbon dioxide as an “essential nutrient” supporting life on Earth, Premier Danielle Smith threatened a legal fight or constitutional challenge to new federal emissions cap regulations. Following through on an announcement made late last year, on November 4, […]
It’s Not Just Oil Giants Seeking to Sway the Climate Talks. Their Favourite PR Firms Are in Baku, Too.
More than 1,700 oil, gas and coal lobbyists are registered attendees of this year’s international climate summit, currently underway in Baku, Azerbaijan, to try to persuade the world that the fossil fuel industry can be part of the climate solution. The PR companies that help them sell that message are not far behind. Dozens of […]
Hungary COP29 Climate Delegates Linked to State Oil Company
A Hungarian “climate institute” attending COP29 is an offshoot of an Orbán-backed think tank funded by the state oil and gas company. Nine delegates from the Climate Policy Institute (CPI) were down to attend the United Nations climate summit, now in its second week in Baku, Azerbaijan. According to the official UN list, CPI director […]
Trump Energy Secretary Pick Chris Wright Calls Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg a ‘Friend’
The fracking executive selected by President-elect Donald Trump to run the U.S. Department of Energy, Chris Wright, has called the concept of carbon pollution “outrageous” and says that the influential climate crisis denier Bjorn Lomborg is a “friend.” Wright is chief executive officer of Liberty Energy, a Colorado-based fracking company. He’s an outspoken advocate for […]
Q&A: Meet the Lawyer Fighting To Pry the ‘Jewel’ From ExxonMobil’s Crown
A video of this interview can be seen by registering for the Climate Consciousness Summit 2024, staged by the Pocket Project in partnership with DeSmog. Building cases on laws she wrote into the statute books 30 years ago, Melinda Janki is deploying every conceivable legal strategy in her bid to halt ExxonMobil’s fast-growing oil drilling operations off the […]
