Keystone XL Spin Alert: Canada Buys Oil From Hugo Chavez
Yesterday, Gary Doer, Canada's Ambassador to the United States,made headlines when he stated that:"If you ask the question: Do you want your oil from (Venezuelan President) Hugo Chavez or (Alberta...
View ArticleKeystone Pipeline Environmental Assessors Have Controversial Past
The climate change site, DeSmogBlog has found that Environmental Resources Management, the consulting firm behind the Keystone XL Pipeline environmental impact assessment, has been at the center of...
View ArticleCanada's Tar Sands Take Big Hit With Major Study Being Dropped
The Helmholtz Association of Research Centres, a major German scientific body with more than 30,000 researchers and US$4.4 billion in annual funding, has dropped out of a joint Alberta tar sands...
View ArticleSeason of Spill Episode 3: New Oil Spill in Texas has Shell Scrambling
While clean up continues on the Exxon oil spill in Arkansas, another oil pipeline burst was detected over the weekend - this time in Houston, Texas.The Shell Oil owned pipeline burst was detected...
View Article10 Reasons Canada's Tar Sands Suck
Canada's right-wing Prime Minister is in New York today trying to convince lawmakers that the tar sands are okay, and that the Keystone XL pipeline should go ahead.At the same time, Canada's...
View ArticleMilitary Psy Ops for Natural Gas? Cartoonist Mark Fiore Explains
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mark Fiore to produce this spoof video in the vein of Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now." Making its debut today in honor of Gasland 2, which features the details...
View ArticleGoogle Involved in Push to Stop Mercury and Toxic Air Regulations
Google, the search giant with the famous motto: “Don’t be evil,” is boasting about its involvement in a 2012 coal industry lobbying effort to block the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) ability...
View ArticleIs Obama's Faith in Carbon Capture a Technicolor Dream?
President Obama's climate action announcement yesterday relies heavily on carbon capture and storage technology eventually paying off as a commercially viable option. But carbon capture and storage (or...
View ArticleCompany Behind Keystone XL Pipeline Environmental Assessment a Member of...
It has been discovered today that the company charged with writing the official Environmental Impact Assessment for the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline is a member of the American Petroleum Institute -...
View ArticleShameful: Right Wing Think Tank Using Deadly Quebec Oil Train Tragedy To...
Five people are confirmed dead and 40 people remain missing in the small hamlet of Lac-Megantic, Quebec, where a train with 73 carloads full of Bakken shale oil derailed explosively, incinerating 30...
View ArticleNew Report Another Blow to Keystone Pipeline Supporters
A new report out today finds that enforcement of environmental infractions by companies in the Alberta oil sands are 17 times lower than similar infractions reported to the United State's Environmental...
View ArticleSorry About All This, Eh
It wasn't too long ago when Canadians were shouting at the top of their lungs about George Bush, the Iraq War, Guantanamo Bay, Gay Rights and a myriad of other "American" issues.But the tides have...
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Global Warming Hasn't Stopped - It's the Hottest Decade on Record
Originally posted on DeSmogBlog.With the release of a major climate science report by the United Nations coming this week, the self-proclaimed climate "skeptics," better referred to as the climate...
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New Study: Koch's Could Make $100 Billion on Keystone XL Pipeline Deal
A new study released today concludes that Koch Industries and its subsidiaries stand to make as much as $100 billion in profits if the controversial Keystone XL pipeline is given the go-ahead by U.S....
View ArticleInternational Coal Summit Putting Faith in the Carbon Capture Techno-Dream
A new study released today at the UN climate conference underway in Warsaw, Poland finds that new coal plants cannot be built if we are to keep global warming below the 2° Celsius threshold.That is,...
View ArticleLeaked Docs Expose ALEC's Operation "Prodigal Son"
The Guardian, now famous for its abilities to get a hold of damning secret documents, has released a pile of of files today that outline major funding issues at the right-wing lobby group, American...
View ArticlePowerline & Hinderaker's Cynical Attack on Tom Steyer Likely a Welcome...
The bloggers over at Powerline, led in this case by the Koch-cozy John Hinderaker, are all in a tizzy this week after the New York Times reported that Tom Steyer, a major political force in the fight...
View ArticleTaxpayers Fund Vitter’s Billionaire Club Conspiracy Theory, Oil and Gas Funds...
If taxpayers are going to foot the bill for the time and effort it takes to come up with a conspiracy theory it should at least be a good one.If that is the case, then taxpayers should be demanding a...
View ArticleClimate Hustle Film A Welcome New Genre of Escapism Fantasy
While on one hand, I expect right-wing spindoctor turned corporate think tanker Marc Morano’s latest project Climate Hustle will be the usual tired rants of grumpy old climate deniers, it may also be a...
View ArticleA Mythbusting Guide to the Paris Climate Agreement
Climate Nexus has published a helpful mythbusting page correcting the misinformation that is already being spread about the Paris Climate Agreement. It is republished here with permission.Myths and...
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