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

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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 โ€œawardedโ€...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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Whatโ€™s that falling from the sky? ย A bird? ย A plane? ย  No!ย ย  Itโ€™s just crazy climate denier Christopher โ€œLordโ€ Monckton! Apparently trying to one-up himself after the โ€œHitler Youthโ€ debacle in Cop...
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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.ย The three-member panel said it โ€œwo...
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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 โ€œoily muckโ€ into Sand Creek in Colorado. Th...
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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 โ€œClimategateโ€) seems to have quietly...
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This short documentary, โ€œBattle for Wetzel County,โ€ chronicles the impacts of the gas fracking rush in West Virginia, focusing on the damages caused by Chesapeake Energyโ€™s drilling activity in the ...
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Richard Black at theย BBCย points to the real 'Climategate' scandal that needs further investigation - why theย UKย police have done such an astonishly poor job investigating this criminal hacking, as ...