All the news reports this morning are that a deal at Copenhagen is dead. Barack Obama has said that we had run out of time to secure a deal in December.
This will please the corporate lobbyists no end.  The longer they can delay action on climate the better.
But now Copenhagen’s iconic mermaid is striking back. [...]

The debate on energy and climate is littered with corporate front groups scare-mongering over action on climate change at the moment.
On the blog we have recently talked about the American Petroleum Institute’s astroturf “Energy Citizen” campaign and American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCE)’s fake letter writers.

It’s turning into Astroturf August. Hot on the heels of the revelations about the fake oil industry PR campaign, comes the fake coal PR campaign.
We knew that the fossil fuel industry would not give up without a fight, but we did not realise that had turned into such fossil fools, by have all their devious [...]

You really didn’t think that the oil industry would just roll over and give up without a fight on the US Waxman-Markey Climate Bill did you?
Just a couple of days ago I blogged about how many people had lobbied the climate bill. Although they are pouring in serious cash to defeat the Bill, its still [...]

Appearances, goes the saying, can be deceptive. One of the tactics the oil industry has used over the years is the use of “front-groups” to promote its cause.  Often these names are deliberately designed to confuse people or hide their real intention.
So the Global Climate Coalition was not a coalition of NGOs attempting to save [...]