Oil and gas news & insights: Week of May 11
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#FreeDonziger: 900 days under house arrest for fighting Big Oil’s dirty pollution in Ecuador
Embedded into the story of the struggle against Big Oil in Ecuador is the American lawyer: Steven Donziger. His story adds another layer of torrid injustice in the fight to hold Big Oil accountable. His story needs to be told.
Evidence from America shows fracking in the UK will not be safe
Just as the U.S. oil and gas industry is looking to exploit the Ukraine war to expand exploitation of shale gas, so too is the European shale gas industry.
After 25 years, will the courts finally find #ShellGuilty?
2020 is the year that the chickens finally come home to roost for Shell. It can evade justice no more. It has run out of places to hide.
NEW REPORT: Industry-Operated Methane Monitors Regularly Miss Pollution Events
Almost 40% of US gas is “certified” by third-party companies, allowing producers to claim reduced methane pollution. The problem? The claims are false. New research from Earthworks and Oil Change International compares first hand field evidence to operators’ emissions monitoring...
As Sea Port Oil Terminal comment period closes, advocates submit tens of thousands of comments opposed
Local residents and concerned advocates submitted over 38,000 comments in opposition to the project, highlighting the risk that SPOT project poses to waterways, endangered species, public health, local economies, and the global climate
NYT: Incentives on Oil Barely Help U.S., Study Suggests
Great article from the New York Times last week, fyi. Original here. Or read on for pasted text. New York Times December 22, 2006 Incentives on Oil Barely Help U.S., Study Suggests By EDMUND L. ANDREWS WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 —...
New Report Reveals Global Banks Funneled $2.7 Trillion into Fossil Fuels Since Paris Agreement
A new report released today by Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Reclaim Finance, and Sierra Club, and endorsed by over 250 organizations around the world, reveals that 35 global banks have provided USD $2.7 trillion...
Very Tasty Squids, The Climate Crisis, and Japan’s Fossil Fuel Expansion in Indonesia
Japanese-funded Batang coal power plant threatens the livelihoods of communities in Indonesia.
Stop ETP coalition statement: Pennsylvania’s bar on Energy Transfer permits long overdue
"Energy Transfer’s projects across Pennsylvania and the country continue to trample Indigenous rights, endanger communities, land, and water, and wreck the climate," said Collin Rees of Oil Change International. "Until these projects are shut down permanently, that’s not going to...