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Shell’s landmark Canadian CCS project “emitting more greenhouse gases than it is capturing”

A new investigation by Global Witness has examined Shell’s landmark Quest CCS project in Canada, which captures the CO2 from the company's dirty tar sands operations. According to Global Witness, the Quest plant “is in fact emitting more than it is capturing.”

Exxon’s 2050 net zero pledge dismissed as “greenwashing” and “gaslighting”

ExxonMobil is a company that for decades has done more than any other to spread climate denial. But now the climate laggard wants you to believe it is becoming a climate champion.

Despite climate emergency, the United States, Canada, and Norway “pumping more oil than ever”

Last year the world’s leading climate scientists, the IPCC,  issued a “code red” for humanity and outlined how we had to stop oil and gas drilling if we wanted a liveable future. But still we drill. Take three countries who like to see themselves as climate leaders...

US Government wastes $1 billion on “failed” CCS projects

The fossil fuel industry continues to argue that Carbon, Capture and Storage (CCS) is an integral solution to our climate crisis. Billions has been spent trying to get the technology to work. Billions has already been wasted. Billions more will be wasted too.

Climate emergency: Last seven years were the seven warmest on record by a “clear margin”

Once again the scientific evidence of our climate emergency has been made totally and utterly clear.

In latest setback, Shell suspends seismic activity in South Africa after court ruling

In the latest setback for the oil giant, Shell has had to terminate the contract for the seismic ship that was due to undertake highly controversail exploration off South Africa's wild coast, after a court ruled at the end of December that Shell had not adequately consulted the local community.