Oil - Pipelines

Climate Politics in the Age of Populist Denialism

30/06/24

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Richard Sandbrook

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Jun. 30, 2024

You can have a scientifically rigorous diagnosis of climate change, together with a plethora of reasonable policies to tackle the problem, but if your program lacks a strong coalition and powerful political strategy, it will fail.

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Inside Big Oil’s Business as Usual: Failure on Climate and Profits from War

29/06/24

Author:

Stella Levantesi

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DeSmog

Oil platforms in the North Sea. Credit: joiseyshowaa (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Jun. 19, 2024

A new report shows oil majors fall short of meeting Paris Agreement targets while fueling global military conflicts.

Oil majors are not on track to hit Paris Agreement climate targets that limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C, a new report reveals.

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Exxon’s Imperial Deletes CEO Claim That CCS Is ‘Critical’ to Paris Climate Goals

29/06/24

Author:

Geoff Dembicki

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DeSmog

Imperial CEO Brad Corson appeared before a parliamentary committee this month. Credit: House of Commons

Jun. 27, 2024

The company has removed dozens of documents referencing the technology from its website following passage of a new anti-greenwashing law.

Exxon’s Canadian subsidiary Imperial Oil has deleted from its website a document in which its CEO and chairman Brad Corson claims to investors that carbon capture and storage is “critical” to achieving the “climate goals outlined in the Paris Agreement.”

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Federal Liberals urgently need to shift terrain with bold ideas

20/06/24

Author:

Seth Klein

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National Observer

The Liberals should redeploy billions towards high-visibility public climate infrastructure investments, like renewable energy projects and public transit. Photo by: Linus Mimietz / Unsplash

Jun. 19, 2024

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A ghost pipeline rears up in northern B.C.

17/06/24

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Marc Fawcett-Atkinson

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National Observer

The proposed Prince Rupert Gas Transmission project pipeline will cut east to west across roughly 900 kilometers of northern B.C. Photo by Jason Drury/Flickr

Jun. 14, 2024

B.C.'s energy regulator has created a legal loophole that is facilitating a "last-ditch" effort to build a liquefied natural gas pipeline in northern B.C.

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Is Carbon Capture Just Climate Delusion?

07/06/24

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Basav Sen, Jim Walsh

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Common Dreams

Officials pose with shovels for a photo opportunity for the groundbreaking ceremony for Oxys Direct Air Capture facility called Stratos in West Texas on Friday, April 28, 2023. (Photo: Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

Jun. 5, 2024

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Earth hit with 12 straight months of record-breaking temperatures

06/06/24

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Benjamin Shingler

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CBC News

A vendor prepares his umbrella as hot days continue in Manila, Philippines. Sizzling heat across Asia and the Middle East in late April that echoed last year’s destructive swelter was made more likely because of human-caused climate change, a study found. (Aaron Favila/The Associated Press)

Jun. 5, 2024

'We're shattering global temperature records and reaping the whirlwind,' UN secretary-general says

The planet's string of record-breaking temperatures has continued for a full year, with May marking the 12th consecutive month for which its average temperature set a new record for that month.

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A year of record global heat has pushed Earth closer to dangerous threshold

06/06/24

Author:

Scott Dance

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Washington Post

A person waits for the bus in the shade on Tuesday in Sacramento, where temperatures topped 100 degrees during the summer’s first heat wave there. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)

Jun. 5, 2024

Temperatures surpassed the 1.5-degree Celsius warming threshold over the past year, and scientists warn they will again soon.

A streak of record-setting heat that began last summer has now persisted for an entire year across the globe, researchers announced Wednesday, pushing Earth closer to a dangerous threshold that the world’s nations have pledged not to cross.

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Oceans face ‘triple threat’ of extreme heat, oxygen loss and acidification

06/06/24

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Oliver Milman

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The Guardian

‘Oceans aren’t just a nice backdrop for your selfies in summer, we rely upon them for our lives,’ said one scientist. Photograph: hdere/Getty Images

Jun. 4, 2024

Third of world’s ocean surface particularly vulnerable to threats driven by burning fossil fuel and deforestation, new research finds

The world’s oceans are facing a “triple threat” of extreme heating, a loss of oxygen and acidification, with extreme conditions becoming far more intense in recent decades and placing enormous stress upon the planet’s panoply of marine life, new research has found.

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Inside the Pathways Alliance’s three-step greenwashing plan

06/06/24

Author:

John Woodside

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National Observer

Jun. 5, 2024

Since its launch in 2021, the Pathways Alliance has used a three-step greenwashing strategy to weaken and delay climate measures, according to new research from a leading international think tank.

According to U.K.-based InfluenceMap, the Pathways Alliance, which represents Canada’s largest fossil fuel companies responsible for 95 per cent of oilsands production, appears to use this three-step plan to keep profit margins of its members healthy as the global energy transition off fossil fuels unfolds.

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Oil - Pipelines

A new report shows oil majors fall short of meeting Paris Agreement targets while fueling global military conflicts.

The company has removed dozens of documents referencing the technology from its website following passage of a new anti-greenwashing law.

'We're shattering global temperature records and reaping the whirlwind,' UN secretary-general says

Temperatures surpassed the 1.5-degree Celsius warming threshold over the past year, and scientists warn they will again soon.

Third of world’s ocean surface particularly vulnerable to threats driven by burning fossil fuel and deforestation, new research finds

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