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Murray Edwards: The Fossil Fuel Fanatic

Enviromental Defense

The fossil fuel industry has long been the main driver of climate change, but Big Oil’s CEOs and profiteers would like you to believe that it is a part of the solution. One of the people peddling this idea is the man behind Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL) – Murray Edwards, the Fossil Fuel Fanatic.

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ExxonMobil Accurately Projected Rising Temperatures While Publicly Disparaging Climate Science

Union of Concerned Scientists

This methodology is similar to my own work combining climate science, political science, and history to reconstruct how UN climate negotiations have played out and what that implies for climate justice. Such a constraint would clearly place a limit on the amount of fossil fuels ExxonMobil could extract, produce and market.

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Whales and Lobstermen Have a Common Enemy

Union of Concerned Scientists

A simple statement that masks just how complicated the issues are: mixing politics, economics, livelihoods, fisheries and endangered species in the ocean body that is the Gulf of Maine. GOM communities, not fossil fuel interests, should determine policies that affect GOM people. They should be held accountable for their actions.”

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Lisa Baiton: Big Oil’s Climate Misinformation Maestro

Enviromental Defense

For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. The fossil fuel lobby meddles with Canadian politics and inserts itself into international climate change politics and diplomacy. CAPP is trying to buy and build the social license (ie.

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Conservative Party received 40 percent of its donations from fossil fuel interests in the first week of the campaign

A Greener Life

million from fossil fuel interests, climate science deniers, and highly polluting industries. Lord Fink, a hedge fund manager and former Tory treasurer, is also a prolific Conservative donor, having given £4 million to the party since 2003, and £322,000 since December 2019. The equivalent figure for Reform was £2.3

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On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare

Environmental Progress

Over the last few years I helped save enough nuclear plants from being replaced by fossil fuels to prevent a sharp increase in emissions But until last year, I mostly avoided speaking out against the climate scare. In the final three chapters of Apocalypse Never I expose the financial, political, and ideological motivations.

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Michael Binnion: The Mastermind of Petro Populism

Enviromental Defense

Were spotlighting Micheal Binnion, the Mastermind of Petro Populism, who has worked for decades to embed support for fossil fuels in the highest levels of the Canadian government. This series of satirical CVs for climate villains has helped reveal the names and faces of the corporate elite championing the fossil fuel industry.