I spent 8 months working on this story about an undercover cop who pretended to be a climate activist for 7 years.
Thanks to everyone who spoke with me and also my amazing editor who didn't even blink when I submitted a nearly 6,000 word draft.
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Geoff Dembicki
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Investigative climate reporter. My new book THE PETROLEUM PAPERS was named a Washington Post Best Book of 2022. gdembicki@gmail.com
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Important piece from about what the Italian oil company Eni knew about climate change going back to the 70s
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SCOOP: Stanford’s sustainability school recently announced its first big research focus: greenhouse gas removal.
The decision was shaped in part by meetings w/employees from fossil fuel companies like Shell, ExxonMobil, and Total, per emails I obtained 🧵
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You never know what you'll find buried in corporate documents.
An Alberta group whose leader has accused pipeline protesters of being beholden to hidden financial interests quietly received $200K from a top oil sands company.
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Excited to be presenting Earth Cry Episode 1— the first in an immersive sound installation series focused on neighborhoods affected by climate change—at PopCon this Saturday with come thru
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Here's the complete schedule for #popcon2023 ‘Let’s Get It Together': Gatherings, Club Cultures, Parties, & Beyond: tinyurl.com/cxm3aeb2. April 27-30 @ @CliveDavisInst @NYUTischSchool. [Flyer image @WitzInPlainView. Graphic design: Frank Gargiulo]
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Does anyone have a template for Canadian Access To Information (ATIP) requests? Or an example of an effective request?
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Govmt scientists find that the oilsands are underestimating their ghg emissions by a whopping 65%. The industry already emits over a tenth of Canada's annual ghg emissions. This would push their emissions up to 1/7th of Canada's total annual emissions...
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On a new 🌎🌎 the panel discuss the nationwide protests against RBC, the IPCC & rewilding then interviews author about his 'Best Book of 2022' THE PETROLEUM PAPERS:
greenmajority.ca/the-podcast/20
harbingermedianetwork.com 🔶
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The whining about 🇨🇦O&G is literally billionaire tears.
If you want to know where the jobs went, ask the boardrooms about automation
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If you're in Toronto next Thurs come out to CSI Spadina in Chinatown to hear me talk about my book and climate disinfo in Canada.
Will be joined by and Angele Alook. Tickets here:
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So, Cdn Oil Sands co's are paying Google so if someone searches federal climate policy or climate change they get industry misinformation and these same company emissions are single largest reason Canada can't meet our climate targets?! 🤦♀️
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REVEALED: Top oil industry group paid Google to link its site to the search term 'environment and climate change canada.'
So when people Googled the federal department that makes climate policy, they got served pro-oil messages.
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In August 1972, three Shell staff wrote an article in Nature pushing back against the environmental risks modeled in the landmark Limits To Growth report by the Club of Rome. In fact, as told , the CO2 projections in Limits To Growth were "sadly prescient."
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“Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early Warnings Over Climate Change” by Matthew Green for @DeSmog: desmog.com/2023/03/31/los
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“Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early Warnings Over Climate Change” by Matthew Green for :
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Journalist, “The Petroleum Papers“ author and Tyee contributor testified before the Senate’s environment committee.
Here’s what he said.
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Recommended: 'Pick up the Investigation.' What I Told Senators about Canada's Climate Coverup | The Tyee
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"The oil and gas industry is not and has never been a climate leader."
A transcript of what I told the Canadian Senate in
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I testified to Canada's Senate this morning and recommended that Senators open an investigation into whether Canadian oil companies lied to the public about climate change :^)
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About to testify to Canada's Standing Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources about climate change and the oil industry (!)
Here's the link if you wanna tune in:
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I'm testifying to the Canadian Senate about the oil industry and climate denial on Tuesday and this is helping me prepare
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A good share on #Landback in the context of #truthandreconciliation hosted by National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation youtube.com/live/ik_coUBeZ #Climate #ClimateChange #JustTransition #TRC94 #CNDpoli
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I'm going to be testifying to Canada's Senate next week about the oil and gas industry and climate change.
Wonder if they're gonna like what I have to say :D
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A national Indigenous group is fighting a federal limit on oil and gas sector emissions.
Corporate documents show the group is being supported by Canada’s second-largest oil and gas producer.
My latest in .
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Here’s how “the Left” works in America, according to Baehr. “Imagine a group of four people sitting at the Harvard Club...“a billionaire hedge funder,” “a film producer,” “a Harvard professor” and “a New York Times writer.”
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my body is at my desk but my mind is here, living my entire life without leaving these walls, knowing every one of my neighbors from birth to death, gathering nightly in the piazza
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Despite climate promises, oil sands production is expected to rise 500,000 per day within the next decade.
As I told climate reporter , that’s a death knell for our climate targets. We must immediately phase out all fossil fuels to hold desmog.com/2023/03/06/net…
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Yep. Or the fact that like 90% of emissions come not from production, but burning the oil, which nobody’s planning to capture.
Surprised not to hear this mentioned today.
I can only hope Galloway’s baiting a bigger company’s CEO to come in for a genuine grilling.
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REVEALED: Oil sands companies told Canada's govt multiple times the real goal of their 'net-zero' plans is to expand oil production.
"The oil sands can play an even bigger role..even if global market demand..begins to decline."
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The American Gas Association is fighting electrification efforts across the country
One way it does that is by advising their members, gas utilities, to set up front groups
“Build a local and/or state consumer coalition to serve as the spokesperson for the natural gas industry”
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Just published! 👉 bit.ly/3SAT7oI
A 's talk with author of " The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change,' of
and Dr. Delta Merner of on the 64-year climate change cover up.
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Catch "The 64-Year Climate Change Cover-Up" from on investigative journalist 's new book "The Petroleum Papers" that details big oil's knowledge of greenhouse gases and their impact on climate change more than half a century ago. Available on #ContentDepot
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Hey Europeans! Geoff is a worthy person to host for a talk (I should know) and has written an important book to boot!
Listen to his work here: cbc.ca/radio/frontbur
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Total shot in the dark but does anyone in UK or Europe wanna host me for a talk about my book?
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Total shot in the dark but does anyone in UK or Europe wanna host me for a talk about my book?
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THE GREAT DISPLACEMENT is out today. You can get a copy wherever you buy your books.
This project began in a Houston neighborhood called Woodland Trails, one of the first places where the federal government tested giving people money to move away from flooded areas.
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"Fighting the causes of increasingly catastrophic weather should never have become controversial."
In the March issue: John Baglow on "The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change" by ().
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