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‘No Need for Site C’: Review Panel Chair Speaks Out Against Dam in New Video
‘No Need for Site C’: Review Panel Chair Speaks Out Against Dam in New Video A new video released today by DeSmog Canada features an exclusive video interview with Harry Swain, chair of the federal-provincial panel tasked with reviewing the controversial Site C dam. “I think we’re making a big mistake, a very expensive one,” Swain says in […]
High Levels of Chemicals Found in People Living Near Gas Wells: New Report
High Levels of Chemicals Found in People Living Near Gas Wells: New Report Chemicals from gas wells were discovered in biological samples drawn from residents of Pavillion, Wyoming, at levels as much as ten times the national averages, according to a new report. The study is the first to sample both the air near drilling sites and […]
Luck Rides The Rails: Another Near Miss with an “Insane” Bakken Oil Bomb Train
Luck Rides The Rails: Another Near Miss with an “Insane” Bakken Oil Bomb Train Luck was in abundance on Friday in Mosier, Oregon where the latest Bakken oil train derailed and erupted into flames near a 50-home residential area and a school. As Mosier Fire Chief Jim Appleton said, “Mosier really dodged a bullet in the last […]
Top Obama Energy Official Says Administration Rejects “Keep It In The Ground” As Climate Strategy
Top Obama Energy Official Says Administration Rejects “Keep It In The Ground” As Climate Strategy “We’re certainly not advocating any strategy for reducing hydrocarbon emissions by keeping oil in the ground…that’s not a position.” This was the response of Christopher A. Smith when he was asked what he thought of the “growing movement of keeping oil […]
Shell Oil Spill Cleanup Operation Ends As Voices Against New Gulf Drilling Grow Louder
Shell Oil Spill Cleanup Operation Ends As Voices Against New Gulf Drilling Grow Louder Five days after Royal Dutch Shell reported an estimated 88,000 gallon crude oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico from its operations in the Glider field, the oil company and the U.S. Coast Guard agreed to halt skimming operations used in the cleanup because they were no […]
How the Fort McMurray Climate Conversation Went Down in Flames
How the Fort McMurray Climate Conversation Went Down in Flames Connecting extreme weather events with climate change isn’t exactly a new thing. After Hurricane Sandy devastated parts of New York and New Jersey in 2012, Bloomberg published a front page spread proclaiming, “It’s Global Warming, Stupid.” For years, major storms, droughts, floods and fires have been connected to climate change. The climate […]
California Lawmakers Move to Prevent Another Disastrous Gas Blowout at Aliso Canyon
California Lawmakers Move to Prevent Another Disastrous Gas Blowout at Aliso Canyon On Tuesday, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Senate Bill 380, which requires rigorous testing protocols to prevent another disastrous blowout at the SoCal Gas Aliso Canyon facility north of Los Angeles. And lawmakers said SB 380 will buy time to fix the larger problem […]
Exclusive: Release of Inspection Reports From TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline Expose Risk of Future Spills
Exclusive: Release of Inspection Reports From TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline Expose Risk of Future Spills The US government agency responsible for interstate pipelines recorded a catalog of problems with the construction of TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline and the Cushing Extension, a DeSmog investigation has found. Inspectors at the US Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) observed TransCanada’s […]
“There is no doubt”: Exxon Knew CO2 Pollution Was A Global Threat By Late 1970s
“There is no doubt”: Exxon Knew CO2 Pollution Was A Global Threat By Late 1970s By Brendan DeMelle and Kevin Grandia • Tuesday, April 26, 2016 – 09:19 Throughout Exxon’s global operations, the company knew that CO2 was a harmful pollutant in the atmosphere years earlier than previously reported. DeSmog has uncovered Exxon corporate documents from the late […]
Top Shale Fracking Executive: We Won’t Frack the Rich
Top Shale Fracking Executive: We Won’t Frack the Rich Fracking companies deliberately keep their wells away from the “big houses” of wealthy and potentially influential people, a top executive from one of the country’s most prominent shale drilling companies told a gathering of attorneys at a seminar on oil and gas environmental law earlier this […]
Six Years After Deepwater Horizon: Time For Serious Action
Six Years After Deepwater Horizon: Time For Serious Action Wednesday, April 20th, 2016 will mark the six-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that claimed the lives of eleven men and caused the largest man-made oil spill in history. The cleanup crews abandoned the Gulf Coast years ago, claiming that the damage from the […]
Will the International Shipping Industry Finally Set a Climate Target?
Will the International Shipping Industry Finally Set a Climate Target? Climate change featured heavily at the opening of the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) annual marine environment protection meeting in London today. IMO Secretary General Kitack Lim called the Paris climate agreement a “landmark achievement” and said that the organisation – which sets shipping regulations, including environmental […]
Exclusive: Climate Hustle’s Marc Morano Turns Down $20k Global Warming Bets From Bill Nye The Science Guy
Exclusive: Climate Hustle’s Marc Morano Turns Down $20k Global Warming Bets From Bill Nye The Science Guy One of America’s most outspoken deniers of the link between fossil fuel burning and global warming has refused $20,000 in bets that the planet will keep getting hotter. Offering the two bets to Marc Morano, of the conservative think […]
