Trump and the Energy East Pipeline Revival: Why Canada Shouldn’t Waste Billions
Like zombies rising from the grave, many long-rejected oil pipeline projects like Energy East are suddenly being promoted as national necessities in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s musings about annexing Canada. To be clear, most Canadians agree that Canada needs to take Trump’s threats seriously and accelerate long-overdue efforts to make our country less […]
Anti-Climate Attacks Heat Up Before Critical German Elections
As tens of millions of Germans head to the polls this Sunday (February 23), one topic has been conspicuously absent from the headlines. In the wake of the hottest year on record – both in Germany and the world – the word “climate” has barely featured on election posters plastering the streets, and has been […]
Mapa: Cómo las grandes empresas agrícolas, farmacéuticas, de pesticidas y otras esperan influir en las conferencias sobre biodiversidad de la ONU
The original version of this article appeared in English on DeSmog on 28 October 2024 Bajo un cielo tropical que amenaza con tormentas y, en medio de advertencias cada vez más serias sobre el precario estado de los ecosistemas del planeta, la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre Biodiversidad se realiza en Colombia. La cumbre de este […]
Who is Importing Donald Trump’s Anti-Climate Agenda to Germany?
This article was first published by the German investigative outlet CORRECTIV Donald Trump may have only recently re-entered the Oval Office, but his radical anti-climate ideas are on the march across the globe. A CORRECTIV investigation can reveal that politicians, think tanks, and economists are now spreading Trump’s ideologies in Germany – right up to […]
Canadian Fossil Fuel Advocate Stewart Muir on ARC Attendees List
Stewart Muir, founder of the extractive industries advocacy group Resource Works, is listed among the attendees of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference. Dubbed the Glastonbury of Climate Denial, ARC is led by Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson, who has previously called climate change a “scam.” The conference, which took place in London in mid-February, […]
Elon Musk’s Embrace of Far-Right Energizes Transatlantic Climate Denial
In December, a Chicago-based organization called the Heartland Institute, which for decades has attempted to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change, devoted an episode of its daily podcast to Elon Musk. As recently as 2022, Heartland figures had ridiculed the Tesla CEO as a member of the “billionaire climate elite” based on Musk’s claim […]
The Wheels Are Falling off Alberta’s Gas-Powered AI Data Centre Proposal
Northern Alberta’s Wonder Valley development seems somewhat less wonderful lately. Celebrity investor Kevin “Mr. Wonderful” O’Leary recently hyped the $70 billion AI data center proposal to be powered by “200 trillion cubic feet of sweet natural gas.” Less than two months after O’Leary launched what he called “Canada’s biggest-ever real estate deal” and “the world’s […]
Environmentalists ‘Weaken’ Canada, Claims Industry Group with Political Ties
Energy United, a Canadian advocacy group that claims environmental activists are “weakening our country” is closely linked to the oil and gas industry, as well as the governments of Alberta and Saskatchewan. The organization produces provocative pro-oil and anti-environmentalist sponsored content for social media platforms. Recent Energy United ads characterize “activists” as blocking growth and […]
‘I’m Not a Scientist’: Net Zero Opponent Nigel Farage Admits Climate Ignorance
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has admitted that he doesn’t know about climate science, despite claiming that politicians shouldn’t worry about man-made carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Farage was speaking at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in London today. ARC claims that it wants to help “save civilisation”, yet several of the event’s speakers […]
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright Backs Coal and Attacks ‘Sinister’ Climate Targets at ARC Conference
Donald Trump’s new energy secretary has today vowed to “get out of the way” of coal, oil and gas, and called the UK’s 2050 net zero target “a sinister goal” that would “impoverish” people. Chris Wright, an oil and gas industry executive appointed by U.S. President Trump, was speaking via video link at the Alliance […]