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It has often been called the heart of public relations: but the third party technique is simple – it is putting your words in someone else’s mouth.

As more and more of us search for news and information online, PR companies and their clients are increasingly trying to manipulate what you read.

A new wave of anger, manifesting in large protests, is sweeping through Nigeria’s Ogoni region.

I discovered recently that I was being spied on by BP.

The President was right on Keystone XL being an export pipeline. The Washington Post Fact Checker got it wrong.

In the end the vote was agonisingly close, but Big Oil’s buddies in the Senate fell at the final hurdle in their attempt to approve the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.

Later today we could see a vote in the Senate, tabled by Louisiana Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu, which could authorize the construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, although President Obama could still veto the decision.

It is billed as Europe’s Number 1 shale gas conference. Next week, over 500 people will descend on Poland for the 5th annual “Shale Gas World Europe” conference.

One step forward - two steps back or two steps forward one step back? It’s been a topsy turvy couple of weeks as far as the climate is concerned. We have had the Republicans gaining control of both sides of the House and Obama pulling a climate rabbit out of the hat with the US-China deal.

A new report by the Overseas Development Institute and Oil Change International has found that governments are still spending a whopping $88 billion every year supporting fossil fuel exploration.