Author Archives: Carol Linnitt
Carol Linnitt is Site Manager and Director of Research for DeSmog Canada. She joined DeSmog in June 2010 as a researcher, focusing much of her time on the natural gas industry and hydraulic fracturing. As a writer and researcher Carol focuses mostly on industry public relations, misinformation campaigns, energy development, environmental policy, and wildlife.
Carol is the lead author of DeSmog’s original report Fracking the Future: How Unconventional Gas Threatens Our Water, Health & Climate. Her work also led to the DeSmog micro-documentary CRY WOLF: An Unethical Oil Story and the Cry Wolf investigative series.
Carol began her environmental career writing and performing interviews for The Canada Expedition, a non-governmental sustainability initiative, and while working in dispute resolution with communities affected by resource scarcity.
Carol has a Master’s in English Literature from York University where she studied political theory, natural resource conflicts, and Aboriginal rights. She also has a Master’s in Philosophy in the field of phenomenology and environmental ethics and is a doctoral candidate at the University of Victoria in the English and Cultural, Social and Political Thought programs.
