IN AUSTRALIA, landholders are responding to the country’s rush to exploit massive reserves of unconventional coal seam gas with a simple but defiant gesture.
They’re locking their gates.
More than 100 environmental and land groups have join…
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DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Permit to Pollute: Dodging New Law, Agency Approves Alberta Coal Plant
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In Alberta, coal was first mined near Edmonton as early as 1850, and commercial coal operations took off in 1874. After the coal rush where hundreds of mines popped up across the pr…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Scientists Say Obama Fracking Panel is Financially Tied to Gas Industry
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The Natural Gas Subcommittee of the Secretary of the Energy Advisory Board released their draft report today, which outlines immediate actions to imp…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: The Attacks on Climate Science Education Are Picking Up Steam
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A few months back, those who care about accurate climate science and energy education in high school classes registered a minor victory. Under fire from outlets …
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: In The Dog Days of Summer, CFACT Still Barks The Same Tune
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Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow, or CFACT Campus, the student wing of Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, wrapped up its student climate and ener…
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Digging Deeper Into New Brunswick’s Fracking Controversy
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In ever greater numbers, New Brunswickers are speaking out against hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and the exploitation of the densely packed unconventional gas sitting be…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Mysterious Fracking Memo Encourages Employees To Deceive Landowners
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The Associated Press is reporting some new details about the mysterious memo that surfaced earlier this year which encourages buyers of oil and gas leases to lie to landowners abou…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Here Comes the Atlantic Hurricane Season
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This has been a year of dramatic disasters and weather extremes. From tornadoes to droughts to heat waves, the U.S. has been battered.
Unfortunately, the hurricane season that&rs…
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: U.N. Report On Niger Delta Calls For Billion Dollar Shell Oil Spill Clean-Up Fund
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A new United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) report [pdf] discussing the environmental destruction in the Ogoniland region of the Niger Delta wetlands calls out Shell…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Oil Industry Steps Up Astroturf Efforts For 2012 Election
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The oil industry has put their astroturf and lobbying efforts into overdrive over the last few months, preparing for a bitter fight in the upcoming 2012 presidential election. In a…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Shell Agrees To Pay Nigerians For 2008 and 2009 Oil Spills
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In a historic move, oil giant Shell has agreed to take responsibility and to compensate Bodo fishing communities in the Ogoniland region of the Niger Delta w…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Denial Down Under With The Galileo Movement
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THERE’S a new climate denial lobby group on the block – bravely regurgitating previously debunked pseudo-science and making wild unsubstantiated claims that climate scientists are all…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Environmental Working Group Reveals EPA Knowledge of Water Contamination From Fracking
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Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has been known by the EPA to contaminate underground sources of drinking water since 1987. In a 25-year old investigat…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Canadians Embarrassed (Again) After Government Overestimates Its Carbon Reductions
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The Canadian government is again being called out for providing misleading information about its commitment to reducing carbon emissions. The National Round Table on the …
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Federal Government Asks Judge To Dismiss New York State Fracking Lawsuit
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The U.S. government is asking a federal judge in New York to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the state of New York against the government that was seeking to demand a complete rev…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: The Bias Trap: Are We All Just A Bunch of Motivated Reasoners?
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There were a ton of great responses to my last post about conservative white men and climate change denial. Perhaps most notably, some savvy respondents called into question whe…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: NAS President Peter Wood: wrong, dishonest or hopelessly compromised?
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New Mashey Report Disrobes Climate Disinformer
What would cause a senior anthropologist such as Peter Wood to stagger outside his field of expertise and launch a bitchy, perso…
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: EPA Proposes First-Ever Federal Fracking Rules
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The U.S. EPA is poised to enact the first ever rules on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) with a proposal that would allow the agency to regulate the practice under the Cle…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: What’s Up With Conservative White Men and Climate Change Denial?
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They come at you at public events, wanting to argue. They light up the switchboards whenever there’s a radio show about climate change. They commandeer your blog comments …
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Free Water for Fracking: B.C. Government Gives 20-Year Withdrawal Permit to Talisman
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British Columbia is providing the gas industry with 78 million cubic meters of free water each year, according to a recent CBC article. That water,…