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Brendan DeMelle

Brendan DeMelle is Executive Director of DeSmog. He is also a writer specializing in media, politics, and disinformation. He also serves as Chair of DeSmog UK, and lives in Seattle, Washington.

Articles by Brendan DeMelle

us/Tar Sands Oil Companies 71 Percent Foreign-Owned - Cue Ezra Levant's Outrage
ByBrendan DeMelle
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ForestEthics Advocacy released a game-changing research brief today documenting the massive foreign control of Alberta's tar sands oil industry. Publicly traded oil companies with active tar sands ...
us/Corporate Exodus From Heartland Institute Continues As USAA and Insurers Bail
ByBrendan DeMelle
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In the wake of the outrageous Heartland Institute billboard campaign equating everyone who acknowledges the science of global warming with “murderers, tyrants, and madmen,” many of the group's corp...
us/The Onion Skewers The Boom in Fracking PR Spin
ByBrendan DeMelle
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In typically grand fashion, satirical news source The Onion has skewered the rise of misleading PR bankrolled by the oil and gas industry to defend the dangerous practice of fracking. Although the...
us/Cue the Defections: Rep. Sensenbrenner First To Pull Out of Heartland Institute's Denial-a-Palooza Conference
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Update May 7: Rep. Sensenbrenner says he will speak at Denial-a-Palooza after all because Heartland pulled its billboard, according to the Chicago Tribune. Although not likely to be the last, Rep. ...
us/Will Heartland Institute's Corporate Funders Tacitly Endorse Comparing Climate Realists to bin Laden and the Unabomber?
ByBrendan DeMelle
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UPDATE: The Washington Post reports that Joe Bast and the Heartland Institute will discontinue the outrageous billboard campaign in a matter of hours. Bast issued the following statement to the Was...
us/Chesapeake Energy Well Blowout in Wyoming Causes Evacuation, Methane "Roared" For Days
ByBrendan DeMelle
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A potentially dangerous oil well blowout at a Chesapeake Energy site in Wymoing caused at least 60 and perhaps 70 residents to evacuate within 5 miles of the disaster for several days until it was ...
us/New Poll: American Voters Very Concerned About Global Warming Pollution, Support Taxing Dirty Energy
ByBrendan DeMelle
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A new poll released today shows that American voters take global warming pollution very seriously and want to see action from government and the private sector to curb emissions and support clean e...
us/The Climate Change "Hoax" Hoax [Video]
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Some clever person used Xtranormal to create a great video addressing climate change denial and correcting common myths held by global warming skeptics. It sounds a lot like a Skeptical Science-ins...
us/Heartland Payments to University of Victoria Professor Susan Crockford Probed
ByBrendan DeMelle
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University of Victoria adjunct professor Susan Crockford doesn't seem interested in discussing the monthly payments she appears to receive from the climate denying Heartland Spinstitute. “Crockford...
us/On 2nd Anniversary of Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, Documentary Explores Lasting Impacts of Mountaintop Removal
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Today marks the two-year anniversary of the Massey Energy Upper Big Branch mine disaster that claimed the lives of 29 coal miners. LinkTV.org will premiere a special show tonight at 9pm EST call...