DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

A lobbying and marketing group representing top Canadian oil sands producers paid Google to link its website to hundreds of search terms related to climate change over the past three months, according to advertising data reviewed by DeSmog. It’s a little bit dystopian.” The Pathways Alliance didn’t respond to a request for comment.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Imperial Oil might not be a household name in the United States, but the company, which is mostly owned by ExxonMobil, is a big name in Canada. These oil sands, sometimes called “tar sands,” which lie in northern Alberta, are one of the largest oil reserves in the world. It chose the oil sands.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Canada is the world’s second leading source of public funding for carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, according to a new report, even though many experts say CCS is a greenwashing cover to pump more oil. They’re still subsidies for projects that are leading to more oil production,” Levin told DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 28, 2023

An oil and gas industry lobby group under investigation for allegations of greenwashing has been marketing its members as leaders on the road to net zero on public transit agencies in Canada. The Pathways Alliance includes Canadian Natural, Cenovus, Imperial, and Suncor, and represents 95 percent of Canada’s oil sands production.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2020

French oil giant concedes oil sands projects are becoming too expensive and warns that 'beyond 2030' peak oil demand beckons. Teh bulk of the write down - $7bn - applies to its Canadian oil sands assets, the firm said in a statement.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Increased oil production is unlikely to make the world any more affordable, irrespective of which hemisphere one lives in, but it is guaranteed to have far reaching and devastating economic impacts. Delegates rejected reports from the International Energy Agency that suggest peak global oil demand may be reached before the end of this decade.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 30, 2023

On Thursday, March 30, Dembicki addressed a senate committee on energy, the environment and natural resources. I’ve written extensively about the Canadian oil and gas industry for media outlets like The Tyee and DeSmog, as well as the New York Times , Rolling Stone and the Guardian. Here’s what he had to say.]

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 10, 2021

The UK government has defended its decision to celebrate representatives of companies involved in Canada’s controversial tar sands industry as “Climate Champions”, ahead of the COP26 UN climate summit it is set to host later this year. Also on the list was a representative from Caisse de dépôt et de placement du Québec (CDPQ).

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Chief Kelsey Jacko told an Edmonton crowd that the Pathways Alliance, a lobbying and marketing effort by Canada’s top oil sands producers, has neglected to consult his community on a massive carbon capture storage network project Pathways claims will be able to store 1,100 megatonnes of carbon dioxide. That needs to change.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 1, 2021

With 2021 the year of the staycation more people will be visiting the country’s shorelines, said the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), which is encouraging everyone to know where they can find information on their favourite bathing location – and what they can do to help protect the water environment while they are there.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

That’s according to a newly reviewed 1993 document labeled “proprietary” that was written by the company’s Canadian subsidiary Imperial Oil, one of the top producers in a heavily polluting oil deposit known as the Alberta tar sands. Crop of image of Esso holding tanks attached to an Imperial Oil refinery.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2022

The company has donated to a rightwing think tank in Canada that has also been supported financially by the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association, the Exxon-owned tar sands producer Imperial Oil, and the Charles G. Koch Foundation, an organization linked to Koch Industries. The pipeline, whose cost has now risen to CAD $21.4

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 24, 2024

A lot more comes to the surface at an oil and gas well than just the oil and gas, including billions of pounds of waste every day across the U.S., But unfortunately this is the same thing the oil and gas industry’s shadow network of radioactive waste workers have often been told. much of it toxic and radioactive.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 29, 2020

People enjoy outdoorsy like this and even more like camping, tramping, fishing, ski, snowboard, swimming, walking along the beaches, collecting shells, and kicking sand as these rejuvenates mood and drive a favorable atmosphere. The queer appearance of the environment where you are in danger, no longer protected from natural barriers.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Boyd found that the number of known ISDS cases targeting environmental protections has “skyrocketed” in recent years, with nations ordered to pay more than $100 billion in damages to coal, oil, gas, electricity, and mining firms. Boyd also urges nations to negotiate new agreements that protect human rights and the environment.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

“Greenwashing involves companies either misleading consumers about the green credentials of a product or service, or misleading consumers about the environmental performance of a company as a whole.” – Dr. Aoife Brophy , Research Lecturer at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2021

Indigenous peoples in Canada and a coalition of environmental groups launched a “Global Week of Action” for June 14-21 , aimed at pressuring an array of insurance companies to cut ties with a long-distance tar sands pipeline under construction in Canada. For years the Trans Mountain Expansion struggled to get off the ground.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2020

The returns from a $1.1bn fund managed by the heirs of the billionaire founder of Standard Oil have oustripped industry averages, despite their decision to divest from fossil fuels five years ago. Valerie Rockefeller, the great-great-granddaughter of oil magnate John D. But it has no place in our future.".

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Drillers are using ever-increasing amounts of water and sand in order to produce the same volume of gas, with a corresponding rise in the levels of solid and liquid waste created. Think of RSG as attempting to create an oil and gas equivalent of fair-trade labels for clothing or green building standards for architecture.

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Grist

MARCH 2, 2021

When Weatherly Oil and Gas filed for bankruptcy in February 2019, the company was walking away from several hundred Texas wells. Many hadn’t produced a drop of oil in years. To try to prevent this, the RRC collects financial assurances called bonds from oil companies before they begin to operate in the state.

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Grist

JUNE 9, 2021

In northern Michigan, across rolling sand dunes and a picturesque village situated on Lake Michigan, it is raining toxic PFAS chemicals. The findings highlight the ubiquitous nature of PFAS chemicals, man-made substances used in common household products because of their water-, oil-, and grease-resistant qualities. No, really.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2023

This isn’t a trivial distinction, as the methods by which hydrogen is created — the differences of which led to the invention of the hydrogen color wheel in the first place — are not all alike in terms of their emissions or effects on the environment. Howarth, the David R.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 19, 2023

It was the spring of 1995, and a Greenpeace campaign to prevent Royal Dutch Shell disposing of the giant floating oil tank — known as Brent Spar — by towing it away and sinking it was fast developing into a pivotal moment in environmental activism. The oil industry’s failure to clean up after itself poses enormous environmental risks.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Climate advocates calling for tighter rules on advertising of heavily polluting products welcomed the Advertising Standards Authority’s (ASA) move — the first time it had banned SUV ads for promoting driving that harms the environment. The series of ads were made by the ad agency The&Partnership, The Drum reported.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

“Greenwashing involves companies either misleading consumers about the green credentials of a product or service, or misleading consumers about the environmental performance of a company as a whole.” – Dr. Aoife Brophy , Research Lecturer at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

million liters) of oil has leaked out into the environment from the controversial Keystone Pipeline system. It is the second significant Keystone Pipeline leak in the past two years along the line that transports Canadian tar sands oil 2,600 miles from Canada then southward into the United States. View original here:Â .

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

So it was a surprise to many PR sector observers when news broke in September that Shell, the world’s fifth largest oil company , had selected Havas — a global PR, media and communications conglomerate with 2022 revenues of 2.3 billion euros (around $2.49 billion) — to take over the company’s global strategic media buying in 2024.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2021

oil major Chevron, in partnership with other fossil fuel giants. And most of the CO2 captured to date has been used to dig up more oil through Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR). . That’s because it involves storing CO2 in deep underground formations on land or at sea, such as depleted oil and gas reservoirs or saline aquifers.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Just over one in ten directors across the insurers analysed worldwide had experience at companies operating in fossil fuels, including oil and gas companies, a major coal developer, and utility companies relying on fossil fuels for the power they produce. Ties to Big Oil. Which raises the obvious question, why? Shrago said.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 24, 2022

Nearly 4,000 quakes , the majority relatively minor, have swarmed the oil-rich state over the past year. The quakes have even spurred the typically inert oil regulator the Texas Railroad Commission to order dozens of disposal wells to suspend operations. Oil is a watery business, especially in some parts of the Permian.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Within this area, there are two target sandstones within several wells drilled: Delft – shallower, cleaner (~50m), with ~150m gap in between, Alblasserdam – deeper, less clean, thicker (~150m) Some of those wells experienced sand production and well integrity challenges.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2020

The campaign, which is also calling on pension schemes to report on their emissions projections and their alignment with the climate goals of the Paris Agreement, has so far attracted support from a number of leading firms, including BNP Paribas, Triodos Bank, Ecotricity, Good Energy , and the Environment Agency Pension Fund.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 7, 2020

NBD Nano changes the way surfaces interact with water and oil. The Namib Desert beetle lives in an area of the world that only gets a half inch of rainfall per year, however every morning it climbs to the top of a sand dune, sticks its back up to the wind, and drinks 12 percent of its weight in water. Located in Somerville, Mass.,

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

From the Global Team American PR Firm Edelman Enabled Oil Baron Al Jaber’s Ascension to Lead COP28 Climate Conference By Cartie Werthman In 2023 we returned to our roots and investigated the ongoing relationship between the fossil fuel industry and advertising and public relations firms. So get comfortable and join us for this highlight reel.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Slowly, surely, one mote of black dust at a time, tires are leaving their mark on the environment. The remaining percentage consists of steel, textiles, oils, resins, and other ingredients used to cure the tire or serve as anti-degradants.” Silica traditionally comes from sand, but that’s changing.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Refrigerant, oil and water leaks are other potential issues that impact HVAC performance. HVAC refrigerant, often freon, leaks as a gas, making it difficult to detect and imposing a serious health hazard to humans and the environment the longer the leak persists. Particulate matter from insulation) into your living spaces.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 13, 2022

This stance marks a distinct shift from 2016, when she praised the Paris Agreement, telling MPs of the threat climate change poses to the environment and “economic prosperity”. Liz Truss is a former environment secretary and vocal supporter of free market economics, and has yet to address the climate or net zero in her campaign.

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