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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/BP Returns to Deepwater Offshore Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico
ByBrendan DeMelle
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BP, the oil major responsible for the biggest offshore oil disaster in U.S. history, is officially returning to deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. The Obama Interior Department “awarded”...
us/BREAKING: Canada Pulls Out of Kyoto Protocol
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Canada is pulling out of the Kyoto Protocol, the cornerstone of international climate negotiations, in the wake of the failed COP17 climate talks in Durban. Canadian Environment Minister Peter Kent...
us/Youth Delegate Anjali Appadurai Speaks Truth to Power at Conclusion of COP17 in Durban
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Perhaps the most powerful speech made in all of COP17 at Durban came at the very end, a statement by Anjali Appadurai, a student at the College of the Atlantic in Maine, who addressed the conferenc...
us/Small Island States Fear "Annihilation" From Failed Climate Negotiations, Protests Mark COP17 Closing Hours
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Karl Hood, Grenada's Minister of Foreign Affairs and chair of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), responded to a question from veteran ABC correspondent Bill Blakemore about the fact that ...
us/The Sky Is Falling! Climate Deniers Parachute Into COP17 In Durban
ByBrendan DeMelle
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What’s that falling from the sky?  A bird?  A plane?   No!   It’s just crazy climate denier Christopher “Lord” Monckton! Apparently trying to one-up himself after the “Hitler Youth” debacle in Cop...
us/BREAKING: Northern Gateway Pipeline Decision Delayed Until Late 2013
ByBrendan DeMelle
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The Calgary Herald reports that the decision on the controversial Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline was delayed today until late 2013, a year later than planned. The three-member panel said it “wo...
us/Suncor Refinery Spill Threatens River Supplying Denver Drinking Water
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Just another day in reckless energy land. A broken pipeline at the Commerce City refinery operated by tar sands producer Suncor appears to have leaked an “oily muck” into Sand Creek in Colorado. Th...
us/Did UK Police Quietly Sideline ‘Climategate’ Hacker Investigation?
ByBrendan DeMelle
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The UK police force tasked with investigating the hacking of emails and documents from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (the debunked “Climategate”) seems to have quietly...
us/Battle For Wetzel County: Short Documentary Chronicles Impacts of Fracking In West Virginia
ByBrendan DeMelle
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This short documentary, “Battle for Wetzel County,” chronicles the impacts of the gas fracking rush in West Virginia, focusing on the damages caused by Chesapeake Energy’s drilling activity in the ...
us/Real 'Climategate' Scandal: UK Police Spent Measly $8,843 In Failed Attempt to Identify Criminal Hacker
ByBrendan DeMelle
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Richard Black at the BBC points to the real 'Climategate' scandal that needs further investigation - why the UK police have done such an astonishly poor job investigating this criminal hacking, as ...