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Canadian Intelligence Warned About Climate Conspiracies. This MP Kept Spreading Them.

As wildfires rage across the country, Cheryl Gallant continues to spread climate misinformation after a CSIS report said her conspiracy theories could increase the “threat of serious violence”.
As wildfires rage across the country, Cheryl Gallant continues to spread climate misinformation after a CSIS report said her conspiracy theories could increase the “threat of serious violence”.
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Canadian Columnist Boosting Data Centres Has Ties to AI Industry
uk/Equinor Extends Deal to Fund Children’s Science Education in Aberdeen as North Sea Drilling Decision Looms
Advisor to Climate-Sceptic Reform UK Laments ‘Disaster’ of a Harvest
us/Pennsylvania AI Data Center Developer Asked Trump Administration Official to Help Loosen Toxic Emissions Limits
Mark Carney’s AI Strategy Will Block Renewables From Canada’s Grid

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uk/Tethered: How the White House is Helping Reform’s Finances
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Series: Defending Democracy from Dirty Money
Series: Defending-UK-Democracy

Trump’s commerce chief has been promoting the business interests of Farage’s main donor.

Trump’s commerce chief has been promoting the business interests of Farage’s main donor.
uk/Nigel Farage Dubbed ‘MP for Washington’ for Parroting Trump in Parliament
ByAdam Barnett
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Reform leader boosted the president’s attacks on UK Chagos Islands policy more often than raising the cost of living.

Reform leader boosted the president’s attacks on UK Chagos Islands policy more often than raising the cost of living.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. Credit: House of Commons (CC BY-3.0)
us/How Pennsylvania Governor’s Office Helped Push for Huge Data Centers in the Philadelphia Suburbs
ByEdward Donnelly
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Emails reveal behind-the-scenes talks with state officials to clear the way for project in Upper Merion Township.

Emails reveal behind-the-scenes talks with state officials to clear the way for project in Upper Merion Township.
Series: Tech vs. Climate
Series: Tech vs Climate
People stand outside of the packed Freedom Hall meeting room in the Upper Merion Township Building on the evening of May 27, 2026. (Credit: Edward Donnelly/DeSmog)
uk/Rupert Lowe’s Online Child Safety Investment Clashes with Elon Musk Alliance
BySam Bright
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The tech billionaire’s Grok AI tool has been used to produce millions of explicit images.

The tech billionaire’s Grok AI tool has been used to produce millions of explicit images.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, and Restore Britain MP Rupert Lowe. DeSmog collage. Credit: Gage Skidmore / Wikimedia Commons (Musk), House of Commons/Laurie Noble (Lowe)
Inside the Grassroots Revolt Against Carbon Capture Pipelines
ByTaylor Noakes
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Seemingly unlikely alliances are springing up in Canada and the U.S. to prevent rural communities from becoming a ‘toxic CO2 dumping ground’.

Seemingly unlikely alliances are springing up in Canada and the U.S. to prevent rural communities from becoming a ‘toxic CO2 dumping ground’.
No CO2 Pipelines Alberta Townhall (Credit: Shapka)
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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaking at CPAC GB in July 2026. Credit: MVF / YouTube
uk/Nigel Farage Has Spoken at 15 Trump-Linked Events Since 2024 Election
ByAdam Barnett
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The Clacton MP has received a platform from a network of MAGA groups that have pushed the president’s agenda in the UK and beyond.
The Clacton MP has received a platform from a network of MAGA groups that have pushed the president’s agenda in the UK and beyond.
uk/What has Reform UK Said About Climate Change?
ByAdam Barnett
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Nigel Farage’s party has a long history of rejecting basic climate science.
Nigel Farage’s party has a long history of rejecting basic climate science.
Flaring of methane from the Venture Global Calcasieu Pass LNG facility is visible for miles in the night sky.
us/Inside the Struggle to Dismantle America’s Greenhouse Gas Data
ByRachel Santarsiero
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New accounts show the oil and gas industry trying to weaken methane reporting while saving the federal emissions system it relies on.
New accounts show the oil and gas industry trying to weaken methane reporting while saving the federal emissions system it relies on.
Conservatives at this year’s ALEC conference expressed hope that the Supreme Court will deliver a favorable ruling for the oil and gas industry when it takes up the ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy lawsuit in October. Credit: Sarah Hofmann/DeSmog, Picryl, byronv2/Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)
Big Oil Could Face ‘Catastrophic Outcomes’ Without Republican Supreme Court
BySarah Hofmann
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At the American Legislative Exchange Council’s annual meeting, members of Leonard Leo’s network explain why the right-wing court majority is crucial for protecting oil companies from climate lawsuits.
At the American Legislative Exchange Council’s annual meeting, members of Leonard Leo’s network explain why the right-wing court majority is crucial for protecting oil companies from climate lawsuits.
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Canadian Intelligence Warned About Climate Conspiracies. This MP Kept Spreading Them.
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uk/Tethered: How the White House is Helping Reform’s Finances
us/Pennsylvania AI Data Center Developer Asked Trump Administration Official to Help Loosen Toxic Emissions Limits

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Tech vs. Climate

Archbald resident Tamara Misewicz-Healey speaks at Archbald Borough Building on November 24, 2025. (Credit: Edward Donnelly/DeSmog)
Data Centers Are Poised to Engulf a Pennsylvania Town
Q&A: Tech Billionaires’ AI Space Empire Fantasies Are ‘An Insidious Form of Climate Denial’
Science journalist Adam Becker speaks with DeSmog about how Silicon Valley tech billionaires have invented new forms of greenwashing and climate denial in their quest for ever-more fantastic technology.
Author Adam Becker’s book, More, Everything, Forever, exposes how tech billionaires’ sci-fi inspired fantasies about ever-more technology making everything, endlessly, better are “wildly implausible.” Credit: Hachette Book Group/DeSmog
AI vs. Net Zero: The UK’s Next Climate Battle
Opponents of climate action are taking advantage of the AI boom to attack the government’s clean energy goals.
Energy and Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband, Conservative Shadow Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho, and Reform UK Deputy Leader Richard Tice. Credit: Lauren Hurley / DESNZ (Miliband), Christine Quarmyne / CCHQ (Coutinho), Reform UK / YouTube (Tice)
The Koch Network Is Pushing Trump to Accelerate AI, Documents Show
Right-wing political group Americans for Prosperity, backed by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch, sees data centers as part of a larger pro-fossil fuel agenda.
Koch, Inc., said in October that its real estate arm has been getting into the business of building data centers like this one in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Credit: Chad Davis/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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