The Outlaw Ocean Project Exposes China’s Use Of Forced Uyghur Labour To Supply UK Seafood Industry
Britain is facing calls to impose import controls on China after an investigation revealed that supermarkets are sourcing seafood from companies exploiting forced labour by minority Uyghurs. The Outlaw Ocean Project documented the forcible transfer of more than a thousand Uyghurs and members of other Muslim minorities 2,000 miles from their homes in landlocked Xinjiang […]
Local Governments and Grassroots Activists Stop Spate of US Carbon Capture Pipelines
Players in the carbon dioxide pipeline industry canceled major pipeline projects in recent weeks, marking an inauspicious start to President Biden’s ambitious plans to develop carbon capture infrastructure as a key emissions mitigation tool. It is welcome news to CO2 pipeline opponents, however, which have included a wide spectrum of interest groups united in their […]
New Study Finds Overwhelming Evidence of Harms From Fracking
This article was originally published by Gas Outlook. The negative impacts of hydraulic fracturing on public health, the environment, and the climate are “intractable and not fixable,” according to a newly published report. Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” is the process used by oil and gas drillers that involves injecting water, sand, and chemicals underground at extreme […]
Former BP Scientist Steve Koonin Claims Climate Journalists Are Spreading ‘Hysteria’
A former chief scientist for the oil and gas producer BP claims that journalists specializing in climate change reporting are spreading false claims about extreme weather — an accusation that a major climate media organization deems “factually careless and ideologically driven.” “There are a number of interests that align to produce the current climate hysteria,” […]
Burned Out: Documents Reveal the Gas Industry’s Use of Tobacco Tactics Over Gas Stove Emissions
In the 1970s, Dr. Bernard Goldstein, a young professor at the New York University School of Medicine, researched the health impacts of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) produced by gas stoves. In a series of studies, Goldstein and his colleagues identified a higher incidence of respiratory problems among schoolchildren from homes with gas stoves. Fifty years on, Goldstein, now emeritus professor […]
Top Tory Think Tank’s North Sea Oil and Gas ‘Vested Interests’
The influential Conservative-linked Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) has been pushing for further North Sea oil and gas drilling while several of its board members hold financial interests in the industry, a DeSmog investigation has found. The news follows the government’s approval of the major Rosebank oilfield and the issuing of new North Sea licences, […]
The Carbon Capture Sector’s Community-Involvement Rhetoric Doesn’t Match Reality
CCS project proponents are touting their support of local community involvement in developing sites across the U.S. Despite this rhetoric about listening to local communities and giving them a chance to say no to projects, community groups opposing these projects claim this is not what’s happening on the ground.
Vaclav Smil Tells Shell Canada President Carbon Capture Is ‘the Stupidest Solution’
A well-known Canadian professor who doesn’t believe in global cooperation to prevent climate change described carbon capture and storage (CCS) as “stupid” in a recent discussion hosted by Resource Works, a Canadian natural resource development lobby group. Vaclav Smil, professor emeritus in the Faculty of the Environment at the University of Manitoba, laughed when the […]
Climate Science Denial Rife at Launch of Jordan Peterson’s ARC Project
Canadian climate science denier Jordan Peterson’s new right-wing project launched this week with claims that carbon emissions have “declined” and that the climate crisis is a “secular religion”. The three-day Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in London featured speeches from UK Cabinet ministers Michael Gove and Kemi Badenoch, and culminated with a high-profile event […]
New Report Issues Damning Verdict on Food’s Fossil Fuel Addiction
Food systems are responsible for at least 15 percent of all global fossil fuel consumption, according to a major report launched ahead of the COP28 climate summit. The analysis shows that the production, transport, and storage of food are driving greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those of the EU and Russia combined. Ultra processed foods […]