Oct 23, 2024 · ‘If an oil company ran that ad, we’d be filing a formal Competition Bureau challenge,’ said Greenpeace’s Keith Stewart. Credit: Danielle Smith / YouTube Andrew Leach, an energy and environmental economist and a professor at the University of Alberta, argues the “scrap the cap” campaign is confusing, in that it inadvertently undermines Alberta’s apparent faith in the oil and gas ...

Dec 23, 2024 · In one fracking wastewater pipeline failure that occurred in 2022, 18,000 gallons of waste spilled from a pipeline operated by an oil and gas company called Seneca Resources and into a wooded landscape in Cameron County, in north-central Pennsylvania, contaminating the water well of John Rosenberger, a retired state trooper, and his wife, Paige.

Dec 18, 2024 · By some estimates, there might be 2.4 billion barrels of oil deep below the waters of the Atlantic ocean off the coast of Suriname, South America’s smallest country.. The problem for multinational oil companies seeking to extract that oil is what’s mixed in with it: trillions of cubic feet of methane, often referred to as natural gas.

Oct 25, 2024 · But the findings from DeSmog’s recent investigation into Project 2025’s funding sources tell a very different story. Our wide-ranging analysis of public financial disclosure forms found that the groups on Project 2025’s advisory board — whose experts largely helped to draft the plan — are heavily funded by just six family fortunes.

Dec 16, 2024 · Two weeks after receiving Warren’s contribution, Turnout for America paid $250,000 to Northern CB Corp. — an Illinois publishing and printing company — for “media services.”. One of the listed directors for Northern CB Corp. is Brian Timpone, a conservative businessman who owns Chicago-based company Metric Media, a Koch-linked network that runs more than 1,100 partisan websites ...

2 days ago · DeSmog was founded in January 2006 to clear the PR pollution that is clouding the science and solutions to climate change.

Oct 17, 2024 · Canada Action ads appearing on Ottawa transit shelters in February 2024. Credit: Helen Hsu (left) Andrew Dumbrille (right) In August 2023, DeSmog reported that Montreal’s bike share program, Bixi, had decided to pull ads for the Pathways Alliance.

Dec 16, 2024 · Nisga’a member Richard Mercer holds a petition to halt the Ksi Lisims project. Credit: Richard Mercer We ‘will take this to court’ Richard Mercer, a Nisga’a member who lives in the community of New Aiyansh (Gitlax̱t’aamiks), home to the Nisga’a Lisims Government, is adamant that many Nisga’a feel left out of the consultation and decision-making process.

Oct 10, 2024 · The contest for a new Conservative Party leader is nearing its conclusion, with Tory MPs this week voting for Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick as the final two contenders in the race to replace Rishi Sunak, following the elimination of former home secretary James Cleverly. DeSmog has been tracking the views of all the Tory […]

Oct 28, 2024 · Since 2020, three major financial services companies — Fidelity, Charles Schwab, and Vanguard — have helped affluent philanthropists funnel at least $171 million to the nonprofits behind Project 2025, whose central platform rejects the climate crisis, DeSmog has found. The contributions, which include hundreds of donations to 68 different Project 2025 groups, were distributed on […]