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A once vibrant fish market in coastal Senegal used to bustle with salt vendors and horse-drawn carts delivering fresh fish from the beach. Today, however, trade appears dead: “Without fish, we have no money to send our children to school, buy food or get help if we fall ill,” says trader Aissatou Wade.

A sweeping two-year investigation published by DeSmog [[link removed]] and The Guardian [[link removed]] reveals how British supermarkets [[link removed]] selling “responsibly sourced” farmed fish may unwittingly contribute to collapsing trade, fisheries, and food insecurity in West African communities.

How did we get here? Complex and opaque global supply chains, poor fishing regulations, and food labeling loopholes.

Reporters reviewed hundreds of pages of customs data, in-store packaging, and supplier lists, and spoke to industry sources to piece together this investigation that stretches from Senegal to Turkey to at least five British supermarkets.

Read the full investigation [[link removed]] by DeSmog’s Hazel Healy and Brigitte Wear to learn more about the fish, supermarkets, and people involved.

On the other side of the Atlantic, Alberta premier Danielle Smith, who leads the Canadian province home to a major oil patch, recently delivered an oily speech with separatist implications, as DeSmog’s Mitch Anderson writes [[link removed]].

These kind of demands for federal politicians like newly elected Prime Minister Mark Carney to approve and potentially pay for more oil pipelines out of western Canada increasingly seem like a loyalty test. More pipelines or Alberta will break away from Canada.

Yet in an interesting twist, even the oil industry-backed, free market think tank, the Macdonald Laurier Institute, considers the region’s pipeline capacity “sufficient” right now. What does that mean for the premier’s rhetoric? Get the full story. [[link removed]]

And in case you missed it, a major DeSmog investigation by Rebecca John reveals in stunning detail how oil companies use sponsorships of cultural institutions and community groups to block climate action and protect their business models. Dozens of documents show this PR strategy extended from the Pennsylvania Girl Scouts to the British Museum. Dive into the investigation. [[link removed]]

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Brendan DeMelle

Executive Director

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Top Free-Market Think Tank Unsure That Canada Needs More Pipelines [[link removed]]

— By Mitch Anderson (4 min. read) —

While Alberta premier Danielle Smith demands new oil corridors, the Macdonald Laurier Institute notes that pipeline capacity is currently ‘sufficient.’

READ MORE [[link removed]] Revealed: UK Supermarket Seabass Linked to Devastating Overfishing in Senegal [[link removed]]— By Hazel Healy and Brigitte Wear (18 min. read) —

Waitrose, Co-op, Lidl, Asda and Aldi among retailers selling fish fed on west African catch.

READ MORE [[link removed]] REVEALED: Now There’s Proof That the Fossil Fuel Industry Uses Cultural Sponsorships to Block Climate Action [[link removed]]— By Rebecca John (15 min. read) —

BP, Chevron, Shell, and other oil majors back arts and community groups to protect their business models, subpoenaed documents show.

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Methane Trackers Meet a New Moment [[link removed]]

— By Emily Sanders (9 min) —

The Trump administration is undoing reporting and regulation of a powerful climate pollutant. Can nonprofit and third-party trackers fill the gap?

READ MORE [[link removed]] Health Groups Shun Advertising Agencies Working for Fossil Fuel Companies [[link removed]]— By Ellen Ormesher (2 min. read) —

Boycott reflects wider concerns over the role of communications firms in protecting polluters.

READ MORE [[link removed]] From the Climate Disinformation Database: Institute of Economic Affairs [[link removed]]

Institute of Economic Affairs [[link removed]] (IEA) is a London-based free-market think tank and educational charity founded in 1955 by the late Sir Antony Fisher and Lord Harris with the mission “to improve understanding of the fundamental institutions of a free society by analyzing and expounding the role of markets in solving economic and social problems.” In 2018, the think tank admitted that it had received funding from the oil and gas supermajor BP every year since 1967. IEA spokespeople have also been publicly critical of the UK government’s net zero target, while advocating for the continued exploration of fossil fuels. The IEA is a member of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, a Washington-based umbrella organization also founded by Fisher and supporting over 450 “free market” groups around the world. In May 2025, a charity regulator opened an investigation [[link removed]] into IEA.

Read the full profile [[link removed]] and browse other individuals and organizations in our Climate Disinformation Database [[link removed]], Ad & PR Database [[link removed]], and Koch Network Database [[link removed]].

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