Kudos to the folks at PR Watch for tracking down this bit of info. It appears that the editors of The Australian (about whom we opined critically just a couple of days ago) have supplemented their own badly grounded science with the meanderings of an industry flak intent upon muddying the waters on the issue of climate change. Bad journalism, bad science.
Critics say new LNG ventures in British Columbia saddle Indigenous communities with debt, opaque ownership structures, and financial risk that could leave them owing billions.
Campaigners have highlighted the irony of the Tory peer warning about threats to free speech at a think tank bankrolled by a repressive regime.
Corporate pledges to fight deforestation by turning degraded pasture into cropland seen boosting demand for harmful chemical inputs.
As the New York-based firm was preparing to work on the climate summit, it was also pushing for Brazilian oil and gas distributor Vibra Energia to help power it.
