New Reform Think Tank ‘Resolute 1850’ Run by Mining Magnates

A new research group set up to support Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is run by investors with business interests in the energy and metals industries, DeSmog can reveal  Resolute 1850 (now called the Centre for a Better Britain) is reportedly being launched in the Spring to “support Reform with policy development, briefing and rebuttal”, according […]

Danielle Smith Says Trump Supporter Ben Shapiro Is Among Canada’s ‘Allies’

The U.S. podcaster and Trump supporter Ben Shapiro, who has joked that Canada is “a silly country” that should be annexed, is among the American influencers that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith considers to be “allies” to Canada. The premier’s remarks came during her speech to a conservative audience at the Canada Strong and Free Network […]

Conservatives Will Lift BC Tanker Ban, Pierre Poilievre Tells Oil CEOs at Rally

If anyone was doubting that Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre would give the oil industry exactly what they want, he helpfully provided a visual aid at a recent campaign event in Newfoundland. Poilievre posed beside a large poster of industry election demands itemized in a letter from 14 energy CEOs, and used a sharpie to check boxes beside each one. Cancel industrial carbon pricing? […]

Canada Fossil Fuel Subsidies Hit $30 Billion Amid Pipeline Push, Study Reveals

Amid trade war talk of expanding Canadian energy infrastructure, a new report reveals that direct Canadian subsidies to the fossil fuel and petrochemical sectors reached nearly $30 billion in 2024. For comparison’s sake, Canada spent between $38 billion and $39 billion on defense in 2024.   “Oil and gas companies – emboldened by their influence over President Trump – […]

UK Regulator Bans “Misleading” TotalEnergies Ad but Clears Shell Ad

The UK’s advertising regulator has banned an advert for French oil giant TotalEnergies about its renewable energy investments for being “misleading,” following a complaint from campaigners that the ad left out information about the company’s overall environmental impact. However, a Shell advert that received 76 complaints on similar grounds was spared. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) […]

Climate Expert Who Studied WW2 Shares How Canada Can Win Trump’s Trade War

U.S. President Donald Trump continues to upend global financial markets, with his chaotic tariff announcements last week plunging the Dow almost 4,000 points in two days and wiping out more than $4.8 trillion in value on the S&P 500. Canada was hit somewhat less than feared, however our country remains on economic wartime footing given that annexation ambitions apparently […]

Jordan Peterson’s International Network Has Its Eye on Pierre Poilievre

This special investigation between Canada’s National Observer and DeSmog was produced in collaboration with the Institute for Sustainability, Education and Action and TRACE Foundation. Pierre Poilievre raced to defend himself at a campaign event in Coquitlam, BC, last month from comments by Doug Ford’s campaign manager — who said the Conservative leader looks and sounds […]

Stephen Harper Shares Stage with Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg

Canadians wondering how seriously Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives would deal with the climate emergency will find timely clues from the other side of the world. Climate crisis denier Bjorn Lomborg shared the stage with former Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the Raisina Dialogue 2025 in India where they both agreed that fossil fuels should not be […]

Oil Execs Warn Privately That Trump’s ‘Chaos’ Could Be ‘Disaster’ for Their Industry

“Chaos.” “A disaster.” “Uncertainty.” “Very negative.” That’s a sample of the reactions to Trump’s first few months published in the latest Dallas Fed Energy Survey, which gives executives from nearly 200 oil companies headquartered in Texas the chance to speak anonymously about burning issues inside the oil industry. The closely-watched oil patch survey released last week […]

Hedge Fund Boss Paul Marshall Bet Big on Elon Musk Before Trump’s Election

Right-wing media owner Paul Marshall bought a large stake in Elon Musk’s company Tesla prior to the U.S. presidential election, DeSmog can reveal. At the same time, Marshall’s outlets were regularly producing content in support of Musk, now a key figure in Donald Trump’s administration who has decimated several government agencies since the new president’s […]