Geoff Dembicki is Global Managing Editor of DeSmog and author of The Petroleum Papers, which was named a best book of the year by the Washington Post. He is a contributing author to Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment published by Oxford University Press. His work has appeared in outlets including the Guardian, Rolling Stone and the New York Times and been featured on NPR and CBC. Heโs based in Montreal.
Industry leaders attending a recent B.C. conference said local climate commitments will help them sell fossil fuels overseas.
More evidence the companyโs net-zero plan is โtotal greenwashing,โ says one disinformation expert.
Danielle Smith said she takes the Alberta Prosperity Project โvery seriouslyโ โ even as the group boosts conspiratorial claims about Indigenous rights.
The tar sands industry claims publicly itโs โaggressivelyโ reducing emissions, but documents show that a top producer is telling a much less inspiring story to investors.
Ad showing children happily playing near a gas stove is โterrible and misleading,โ says Vancouver physician.
Instead the companyโs Canadian arm developed a communications plan to make climate solutions like carbon taxes look economically reckless.
The Macdonald Laurier Institute then bragged about pushing a massive tar sands expansion.
The oil and gas industryโs expansion strategy is now being marketed in the language of Indigenous empowerment and net-zero climate action.
โFuelling Canadaโ is linked to major gas companies that are battling climate regulations.
A program touted as reducing oil and gas emissions is instead funding the Canadian Energy Centre's goals to increase fossil fuel production.
