The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has been financing coal mining companies implicated in criminal corruption allegations - according to a Bankwatch analysis.
… EBRD - eyes wide shut to coal sector corruption The Ecologist | 17th December 2013 News Coal Fossil Fuels Energy Corruption EBRD MDBs Climate Change The … coal mining companies implicated in criminal corruption allegations - according to a …
Covid-19 and the fall in oil prices has pushed Iraq towards calamity, underlining the urgency of ending the country's fossil fuel dependency.
… | 24th July 2020 News Iraq Oil Fossil Fuels Corruption Protest International Tankers at … fail so dismally to provide for its people? Corruption After more than five months, the … Principal among these causes is ending the corruption that scars our nation. Iraq is one …
Between 2011 and 2016 the UK's export finance agency UKEF provided £109m to underwrite exports of equipment to coal mines in Russia, writes Lawrence Carter - despite the agency's commitment not to support 'investment in dirty fossil-fuel energy production'. And that's just a fraction of the £6.9 billion UKEF has lavished on the corrupt, polluting sector since 2000, while it was meant to be backing the clean energy technologies of the future.
… been at the heart of the country's massive corruption scandal; and coal mines in Russia. … company to become a major shareholder. Brazil corruption scandal UKEF has provided loan … 2011. This includes £555m after the Petrobras corruption scandal broke in March 2014. The …
The regional government of Castilla y León cancelled the plan for further coal mining by Mountain Top Removal Coal Mining in Spain's Laciana Valley. It's a huge victory for campaigners, but now a new kind of economy is needed for the already depressed area.
… powers in the area. Deep and widespread corruption Suspicion of corruption has always surrounded the coal …
Greenpeace are calling for a curb on Arctic oil exploration in order to save this fragile wilderness
… NEWS ANALYSIS Arctic special How oil and corruption have become so closely linked As a … from history is that where there is oil, corruption will quickly follow. Eifion Rees …
Former Shell oil boss Mark Moody Stuart's ableptic, self-satisfied book on 'responsible leadership' left Danny Chivers seething. The sooner we stop caring about the opinions of the Moody-Stuarts of this world, he concludes, the sooner we're likely to improve it.
… bemoans the problems caused by government corruption in oil-producing states and shares … like labour rights, environmental issues and corruption. All the companies need to do to …
Pungesti is at the terrifying front line of Romania's resource war - where villagers are fighting off rapacious corporations and their private army of violent riot police, backed by corrupt politicians. Alex Summerchild reports ...
Pungesti, Romania: people versus Chevron and riot police Alex Summerchild | 12th December 2013 News Fracking Romania Fossil Fuels pungesti.png Pungesti is at the terrifying front line of Romania's …
Paris will tomorrow host a climate finance summit called ‘One Planet’. This last-minute gathering of business leaders, heads of state and civil society groups will discuss the future of a green economy. But in the lead-up to the summit a new report points to heavy investment in fossil fuel infrastructure. ARTHUR WYNS reports.
… it is addressing the climate crisis. Fuel corruption According to Bankwatch’s analysis, … gas pipeline, a deal that is said to fuel corruption, human rights abuse and climate …
Peru's government is actively undermining indigenous peoples' efforts to protect their forests - by refusing to title 20 million hectares of their lands and turning a blind eye to illegal logging. At the same time it's handing out vast concessions for oil, gas, mining and timber exploitation, expanding palm oil production and planning 50 major forest-flooding dams.
… basins, after 40 years of oil operations. Corruption and criminality at the heart of …
Lord Lawson is today the main voice of climate denial in Britain - and 30 years ago he was personally responsible for the British state losing control over our reserves of fossil fuels. BRENDAN MONTAGUE investigates
How Lawson lost control of Britain's fossil fuels Brendan Montague | 13th August 2018 Comment Fakenomics Lord Lawson Fossil Fuels North Sea Oil Conservatives Energy Hayek x Lord Lawson is today the …
The US fossil fuel industry has been caught red-handed spying on green activists. But Adam Federman finds it has received poor value for money - and is no closer to tackling the 'existential crisis' it faces.
… expose their manipulation of the truth, their corruption of the political process, and their … expose their manipulation of the truth, their corruption of the political process, and their …
Six environment heroes, one from each continent, are honoured for their work today - fighting threats from giant coal mines to forest destruction, fracking, high dams, illegal development and toxic waste dumps. Sophie Morlin-Yron reports.
… led multiple campaigns exposing government corruption and illegal use of federally …
A wholesale corruption of science underlies the UK Government's insistence that gas from fracking offers a 'low carbon', low cost route to energy abundance, writes Paul Mobbs. On the contrary: it's expensive, over-hyped - and just as bad for climate change as coal.
… fracking-bakken-ndakota-cut.jpg A wholesale corruption of science underlies the UK …
Banks are just as much to blame for the climate crisis as fossil fuel companies and corrupt governments. Campaigning for fossil free finance must be the climate movement's next step, writes CHRIS SALTMARSH
Blame your bank for climate change - and demand fossil free finance Chris Saltmarsh | 4th September 2018 Comment Fossil Free Finance Climate Change Banks Fossil Fuels 2527670737_3c7c7084ed_o.jpg …
2013 was a bad, bad year for Big Coal, writes Bob Burton. If the coal industry's PR dream is for a stream of exuberant articles selling the story line that coal is clean, cheap and desirable, then 2013 delivered the opposite. 2014 will be even worse.
… and water pollution, escalating health costs, corruption scandals, damage to farmlands, …
The Oglala Lakota people are victims of poverty, government violence, land theft and alcohol, writes Camila Ibanez. Yet 114 years after the massacre at Wounded Knee, they are still there, and still fighting. Now the battle is over the Keystone XL pipeline ...
Dead or in prison before we allow the KXL pipeline Camila Ibanez | 17th March 2014 News Indigenous Peoples Oil Fossil Fuels ai-liberationday.png The Oglala Lakota people are victims of poverty, …
The UK's financing of fossil fuels abroad increased tenfold in two years to exceed £1 billion in 2013 / 2014, writes Christine Ottery. Incredibly, the fossil fuel funding increase came after a government promise to use the money to support 'innovative and green technologies'.
… also happens to be embroiled in an ongoing corruption scandal . This was as part of a …
While other countries apply themselves to environmental challenges from climate change to nature protection, Russia - with its massive wealth of nature and natural resources - is stubbornly refusing to take part, writes Lucy E J Woods. And as the economy declines, the pressure is on: to ignore environmental regulations, and clamp down on environmental defenders.
… says Tchouprov, "goes immediately to the next corruption scheme. This is the reality. Russia …
China’s national and provincial post-Covid recovery packages will put three times as much cash into fossil fuel projects as into renewable energy.
… constraints on markets combine to incentivise corruption among the 90 million members of the … Party. The leadership’s constant anti-corruption campaigns have been no more …
Fracking is just another step on the fossil fuel treadmill, according to 'Snake Oil' by Richard Heinberg. High costs, diminishing returns and growing pollution will ultimately nail its future. Paul Mobbs urges readers - give a copy to your MP before it's too late!
Snake Oil: how fracking's false promise of plenty imperils our future Paul Mobbs | 20th March 2014 Reviews Fossil Fuels UK USA Fracking snake-oil.png Fracking is just another step on the fossil fuel …
Paris has been awash with hype about 'CO2 recycling' and 'carbon neutral' or even 'carbon negative' technologies based on burning millions of trees, writes Rachel Smolker. But the alchemical notion that waste carbon can be spun into corporate gold is hitting serious reality checks. It's time to ditch the fantasies and progress the real solutions: like caring for land, soils, forests and grasslands.
… they are not so amenable to monetization, corruption, or corporate monopolization. Hence … Nor are they amenable to monetization, corruption, or corporate monopoly. …
VW's pollution cheating has caused thousands of premature deaths, write Mike Berners-Lee & Chris Goodall, creating costs that could destroy the company's entire shareholder equity. But this is no 'Black Swan' event. It is an early example of the existential threat to the fossil fuel economy.
… accusations or to evidence of regulatory corruption. We disagree; the 'carbon risk' is …
India's renewable power capacity is set to reach 170GW by 2022, write Areeba Hamid & Oliver Tickell - reducing power shortages and bringing electricity to off-grid of rural communities for the first time. But it may also have an unintended consequence - cutting off investment in India's troubled coal sector as prospects for future profitability evaporate..
Renewables to transform India's energy landscape in seven years Areeba Hamid Greenpeace EnergyDesk Oliver Tickell | 20th February 2015 News India Energy Coal Fossil Fuels Renewables Solar Finance …