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Yesterday organisers of the Go-Expo conference, and hundreds of Alberta oil and gas executives, got duped bad.

Attendees paid 50 dollars a head to hear a speech from the National Petroleum Council, a group that also advises the White House on oil and gas matters. It was rumoured that a new joint energy policy from the Canadian and American governments was coming.

Attendees say at first, the speech just seemed odd. But when the speaker began to talk about ‘vivoleum’, a renewable energy source nobody had ever heard of, red flags started to go up.

When the speaker asked the audience to light candles in memory of a deceased Exxon workers attendees and organizers realized they’d been had.

The men weren’t members of the Petroleum Council, but members of The Yes Men, an anti-globalisation activist group that travels the world pulling pranks at corporate events.

Continue reading ‘Exxon proposes burning humans for fuel’

You often have to wonder why crackpots like Augie Auer and the Climate Science Coalition maintain their position when it is so clearly wrong and is so clearly damaging to their credibility. Well often it’s because they’re getting paid.

The day of reckoning has come – when we get to find out just how much of the climate change denial industry ExxonMobil aka Esso is still paying for. This is the company which, apparently, has been “misunderstood” on global warming and has said it has dropped its funding of the deniers.

Read on or check the google news coverage.

Vanity fair also did this excellent piece on the climate ckeptic industry.