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59 Groups Pressure World Bank to Clean Up Energy Lending
Elizabeth Bast, April 3, 2013
Development, faith, human rights, community, and environmental groups from more than 20 countries teamed up today to ask World Bank President Jim Kim to end Bank support for all fossil fuel projects unless the projects are solely focused on directly increasing energy access for the poor.
60,000 Say No to EDF’s Legal Bullying
Andy Rowell, March 4, 2013
Just under 60,000 people have now signed a petition that demands that the French energy company EDF drop a sinister lawsuit against 21 climate change activists who occupied one of its power plants last year.
Rigging the Gas Game
Andy Rowell, November 13, 2012
The big energy companies are rigging the market to make excessive profits, if the claims of a key whistleblower are to be believed
“No Dash for Gas” Ends Protest
Andy Rowell, November 5, 2012
This morning the last two protesters from the “No Dash for Gas” group occupying the chimney of a huge gas power station in the UK intend to end their protest having shut the new power station down for a week. They and other protesters who have already come down have been protesting against the UK...
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NY Mayor Bloomberg Backs Fracking
Andy Rowell, August 28, 2012
The people have spoken, but they are being ignored. Yesterday, over one thousand people marched to New York’s state Capitol to demonstrate their opposition to fracking. They delivered a pledge of resistance which has now been signed by thousands of people. The march was intended to intensify pressure on New York Governor Andrew Cuomo as...
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The Price of Fracking – Report Back from Stop the Frack Attack
Karen Showalter, July 31, 2012
“I haven’t seen an issue that’s affected so many people in so many places,” Doug Shields, former member of the Pittsburgh City Council, remarked at Stop the Frack Attack rally last Saturday. And indeed, the thousands assembled on the lawn of the US Capitol Building reflected this truth. From as far as California and even...
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Dirty Energy Money Seeps into Academia
Karen Showalter, July 25, 2012
Just as the oil and gas industry buys influence on Capitol Hill and in state capitals across the country, so too can it buy friends at major universities who support its agenda. A recent Bloomberg article highlights just how close, and influential, these ties can actually be. The article details how the Marcellus Shale Coalition, a consortium...
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Subsidised “Green Gas” No Better than Coal
Andy Rowell, May 30, 2012
Sometimes all you have to do is join the dots. Let’s take three different headlines from yesterday, which are all from the Guardian newspaper in the UK. Headline number one: “’Golden age of gas’ threatens renewable energy, IEA warns” The article went on to state: “A ‘golden age of gas’ spurred by a tripling of...
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The $13 Billion Bill for Elgin Gas Spill
Andy Rowell, April 11, 2012
Oil companies operating in the North Sea could face an estimated $13 billion (Euros 10 billion) bill in light of the Elgin gas spill which could also seriously affect their credit ratings, according to rating agency Fitch. Total’s Elgin platform in the North Sea has been leaking gas since last month with some estimates that...
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Africa’s New Scramble for Gas
Andy Rowell, March 13, 2012
Some twenty five years ago when Amoco were exploring for oil offshore Somalia, the company was convinced that the waters of East Africa contained vast reserves of oil and gas. But its exploration was unsuccessful, Somalia was ripped apart by civil war and the waters of East Africa, once the tranquil domain of dhows and...
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