Alberta’s ‘Emissions Intensity’ Hasn’t Improved, Despite Government Claim

Political spin and hard facts had another messy moment in Alberta this month. The governing United Conservative Party just released a report touting their alleged strong record on cutting greenhouse gas emissions. “The 2023 report shows our oil sands sector is producing more energy with fewer emissions per barrel — a clear sign of innovation […]

Safety Warnings Follow Australia’s Woodside Energy to U.S. as $17 Billion LNG Project Moves Ahead

As Woodside Energy investors convened for their annual meeting in Perth, Australia, on May 8, they were met by protests and heckling. Activists, angered over the fossil fuel company’s climate impacts and accidents, repeatedly disrupted speeches by company management. While management and demonstrators debated, Woodside workers about 800 miles to the north were scrambling to […]

Nigel Farage to Headline Tufton Street Climate Denial Event

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is set to speak at an event today organised by a pro-Trump think tank and held in the home of the UK’s main climate science denial group, DeSmog can reveal. Farage, whose party campaigns to scrap the UK’s goal of achieving net zero emissions, is the star speaker at the […]

Mental Health Professionals Join Calls For Boycott of Advertising Agencies Over Work for Polluters   

Health organisations should cut ties with advertising agencies that work for the fossil fuel industry to protest the role of greenwashing in delaying climate action, says a group of mental health advocates. In an open letter, a dozen researchers and clinicians warned of the growing toll of despair suffered by displaced families, the disorientation and […]

OPEC Projections on Future Oil Demand Overly Optimistic, Experts Warn

Experts are urging caution after the secretary general of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) told delegates to the Global Energy Show Canada that there is no oil peak on the horizon, and that energy demand will increase by 24 percent by 2050. “The fact is that oil demand keeps rising, hitting new records […]

xAI Data Center Emits Plumes of Pollution, New Video Shows

This article was originally published by Gas Outlook. A massive data center at xAI’s controversial site in Memphis, Tennessee is emitting huge plumes of pollution, according to footage recorded by an environmental watchdog group. Elon Musk’s xAI quickly built an enormous data center and supercomputer at an empty factory site in Memphis last year, aimed […]

In Texas, AI Gold Rush Helps Spur Demand for Over 100 New Gas Plants

In the past two decades, new demand for electricity in Texas has largely been met by wind and solar, making it by far the leader in renewable energy development among U.S. states. But the AI gold rush, combined with a new, statewide subsidy system that prioritizes fossil fuel power, threatens to upend that longstanding dynamic.  […]

‘Net Zero is a Killer’: Meet Reform UK’s New Chair David Bull

Reform UK’s new chairman has repeatedly attacked climate targets as “madness” and “a killer”, supported fracking, and falsely dismissed the role of carbon emissions on heatwaves. David Bull, a TalkTV presenter and former doctor, was appointed as the chair of Nigel Farage’s right-wing populist party this week following the resignation of its previous chair Zia Yusuf. […]

Danielle Smith Pitches Tanker Ban Exception for Prince Rupert Pipeline Terminal

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith appeared to suggest she would consider amending her blanket opposition to the so-called West Coast tanker ban if the federal government were to assist in the development of an oil export terminal in Prince Rupert, British Columbia. For weeks Premier Smith has been calling for a major oil pipeline project to […]

How MAGA Lobbying is Undermining EU Climate Rules

“The CSDDD is the greatest threat to America’s sovereignty since the fall of the Soviet Union,” the Heartland Institute, a pro-Trump U.S. think tank, tweeted on 31 March. The Heartland Institute is one of the world’s leading climate science denial groups. It has helped to draft Donald Trump’s anti-climate policies, which have seen the president […]