Industry Spin

For nearly three decades, mainstream American news outlets duped the public on climate change by publishing significantly more news stories that denied climate science compared to those that said it was occurring, according to a recent study.

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Climate Change

‘Grassroots’ oil and gas advocacy group Canada Action received $100,000 from ARC Resources

27/06/20

Author:

Carol Linnitt

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The Narwhal

Documents obtained by The Narwhal reveal Canada Action, an organization that promotes the natural resources industries while criticizing the environmental movement, receives funding from the oil and gas sector

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Polluter bailouts and lobbying during Covid-19 pandemic

20/04/20

Author:

Damian Carrington

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National Observer

Jason Kenney speaks at the Manning Networking Conference in Ottawa on Feb. 10, 2018. Alberta premier Jason Kenney’s government has pledged $5bn in support for the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. File photo by Alex Tétrault

April 19th 2020

This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration

Polluting industries around the world are using the coronavirus pandemic to gain billions of dollars in bailouts and to weaken and delay environmental protections.

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Exxon CEO dismisses rivals' climate targets as 'beauty competition'

06/03/20

Author:

Carl Surran, SA News Editor

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Seeking Alpha

Mar. 5, 2020

Defending the business of fossil fuels and resisting targets on carbon emissions, Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) CEO Darren Woods today called pledges by some of its Big Oil rivals to cut carbon dioxide emissions a "beauty competition" that would do little to halt climate change.

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Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Stands in Solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en Nation

03/03/20

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Democratic Socialists of America

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Democratic Socialists of America

MARCH 2, 2020

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The EU’s Green Deal is a Colossal Exercise in Greenwashing

17/02/20

Author:

Yanis Varoufakis, David Adler

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Resilience

The Niederaussem coal-fired power plant near Bergheim, Germany. Photograph: Lukas Schulze/Getty Images

February 11, 2020

Emergencies tend to reveal our true priorities. When our house is burning down or the storm waters are flooding in, we hold on to what we value most, and leave the rest behind.

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Global

Green New Deal/LEAP

Industry Spin

The Wet’suwet’en are more united than pipeline backers want you to think

15/02/20

Author:

Amber Bracken

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Macleans

This is, left to right: Dinï ze’ Knedebeas, Warner William, Dinï ze’ Hagwilnegh, Ron Mitchell, Dinï ze’ Woos, Frank Alec, Dinï ze’ Madeek, Jeff Brown, Dinï ze’ Gisday’wa, Fred Tom. In back is Dinï ze’ Ste ohn tsiy, Rob Alfred. Wet’suwet’en territory near Houston, B.C. on Jan. 4, 2020. (Amber Bracken)

Feb 14, 2020

The difference between Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs and elected chiefs are rooted in Aboriginal title, an issue that the Government of Canada continues to leave unresolved

Amber Bracken is an award-winning photojournalist based in Edmonton. Much of her reporting focuses on issues affecting Indigenous people. She’s spent months, over multiple trips, covering the interpretation of Aboriginal title rights inside Wet’suwet’en territory.

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Alarm grows over heightened Canadian rail protests

13/02/20

Author:

Carl Surran, SA News Editor

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Seeking Alpha

[Editor: Seeking Alpha is a website geared to advising investors. It's big on energy corporations.]

Energy

Feb. 12, 2020

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(Some) Investors Fading from Tar Sands, Extraction Increases

12/02/20

Author:

Christopher Flavelle

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New York Times

The Syncrude Canada plant at the Athabasca oil sands near Fort McMurray, Alberta.Credit...Ben Nelms/Bloomberg

Feb. 12, 2020

Some of the world’s largest financial institutions have stopped putting their money behind oil production in the Canadian province of Alberta, home to one of the world’s most extensive, and also dirtiest, oil reserves.

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Industry Spin

The views of large businesses and opponents of climate action are given outsized coverage to sway climate debate.

Documents obtained by The Narwhal reveal Canada Action, an organization that promotes the natural resources industries while criticizing the environmental movement, receives funding from the oil and gas sector

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