Industry Spin

23/04/24
Author: 
John Woodside
The lobbyist registry shows that Pathways Alliance president Kendall Dilling met with Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on March 15. Photo by Natasha Bulowski

Apr. 18, 2024

Oil and gas lobbyists kicked into high gear in the lead-up to Tuesday’s budget, the federal lobbyist registry shows.

17/04/24
Author: 
Chris Russill, Patrick McCurdy & Jenny Kliever
We need to get to the bottom of fossil fuel greenwashing people encounter when conducting searches on Google. Photo by fotdmike/Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED)

Apr, 12, 2024

When we are confused about carbon taxes or other climate policies, we often turn to Google for help. Some of us Google Search for information on “climate payment” or “climate action incentive payment” or "carbon tax rebate." Others seek government sources by searching “Environment and Climate Change Canada” or “net zero.” A few use special operators for searches, like “filetype:pdf climate change,” to filter for climate reports in PDF format.

24/03/24
Author: 
Andrew MacLeod
The RNG facility at the Keystone Sanitary Landfill in Dunmore, Pennsylvania. Fortis wanted the province’s utilities commission to allow it and other sources of non-local RNG to play a big role in the province’s future energy supply. Photo via Archaea Energy.

Mar. 22, 2024

The company’s climate-friendly goals relied on ‘squirrely’ accounting, says one advocate.

18/03/24
Author: 
Zoë Yunker
Sources for renewable natural gas include landfills, cow farms and wastewater. Why is FortisBC buying it in Pennsylvania? Collage for The Tyee by andrea bennett. Foreground photo via Shutterstock. Background photo via Archaea Energy.

Mar. 18, 2024

The company banks its future on a type of methane called renewable because it’s from organic waste. Does it meet the climate test? First in a series.

17/03/24
Author: 
Wyatt Myskow, Lee Hedgepeth
Cell-cultivated chicken is made in the pictured tanks at the Eat Just office on July 27, 2023 in Alameda, Calif. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Mar. 12, 2024

Restricting the sale of protein cultured from animal cells, developed as a way to raise meat without the climate impacts of livestock, has become a trendy right-wing legislative focus in states from Arizona to Florida.

Months in jail and thousands of dollars in fines and legal fees—those are the consequences Alabamians and Arizonans could soon face for selling cell-cultured meat products that could cut into the profits of ranchers, farmers and meatpackers in each state. 

07/03/24
Author: 
John Woodside
Artwork by Ata Ojani / Canada's National Observer

Mar. 7, 2024

Despite commitments to align their portfolios with net-zero emissions, Canada’s largest banks are increasingly financing fossil fuel companies and pushing their decarbonization goals out of reach.

06/03/24
Author: 
Bill McKibben
gaslighting

Mar. 5, 2024

Exxon--is it possible?--hits a new low

I’m listening to John Coltrane through my headphones as I type, in an effort to stay calm enough that I don’t just start sputtering. You might want to do likewise as you read.

02/03/24
Author: 
Geoff Dembicki
LNG as a climate solution is 'way outdated,' says one South Korean advocate. Credit: Ken Hodge/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0 DEED)

Feb. 15, 2024

Western provinces are selling fracked gas as a global climate solution. But experts across the Pacific say that’s ‘outdated’ and inaccurate.

Oil and gas companies have for years marketed fracked gas from B.C. as a global climate solution, with some industry boosters even going so far as to call Canada’s supply of the fossil fuel the “cleanest in the world.”

23/02/24
Author: 
Rachel Sherrington, DeSmog.
photo: Burning piles of hay sent up dark plumes of smoke in Brussels on February 1, as farmers protests sweep through Europe. Rachel Sherrington.

Feb. 7, 2024

Big Agriculture And Far-Right Parties Set Farmers Against The Environment.

But producers on the ground in Brussels told a different story.

Across France, Italy and Belgium last week thousands of farmers descended on capital cities to express their deep discontent with the European food system.

21/02/24
Author: 
Max Fawcett
Illustration by Ata Ojani/National Observer

Proposed upgrades to B.C.'s efficiency standards for furnaces, water heaters and other home-heating appliances are coming under fire from some contractors and the province's far right.

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