Why Is Alberta Falling for Kevin O’Leary’s AI Data Centre Stunt?
British Columbia just delivered a master class in clean energy deployment. Premier David Eby just announced nine new wind generating projects totaling 5,000 gigawatt hours of new capacity that will be 50 percent Indigenous-owned and generate up to $6 billion in private sector investment. BC Hydro negotiated profitable power-buying agreements with independent proponents so public […]
New Orleans Residents Face Surge in Energy Costs from Sale of Gas Utility
City Council OKs private equity firm’s purchase of Entergy gas utility, undermining climate goals and jacking up prices for the city’s poorest.
DOE Study Finds LNG Exports Don’t Just Hurt the Climate – They Hit Americans in Their Pocketbooks
If you don’t live anywhere near an export terminal for liquified natural gas (LNG), you could still feel big impacts from the industry’s planned construction boom in the U.S. – and not just because the fossil fuel is rapidly worsening the climate crisis. That’s according to a new study on LNG export authorizations by the […]
2024: Green Shoots and Dark Omens
For the first time in years, the UK is governed by a party that wants to accelerate climate action, rather than reverse it. Labour stood on a defiantly pro-net zero ticket at the 4 July general election, and scored a clear victory. Over the course of the six week campaign, Labour won the argument against […]
Nigel Farage Helps to Launch U.S. Climate Denial Group in UK
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was the “special guest of honour” at the launch of the Heartland Institute’s new European offshoot on Tuesday (17 December). The Heartland Institute – one of the organisations involved in the radical Project 2025 agenda for a second Donald Trump term – has been at the forefront of denying the […]
How to Start a Public University LNG Research Center: An LNG Lobbyist Director and Donations for Research Votes
As the liquefied natural gas (LNG) boom gained momentum in southwest Louisiana, one public institution of higher learning, McNeese State University, courted the industry to help launch a new LNG Center of Excellence, hired a director doubling as an LNG industry lobbyist, and approached federal regulators to co-locate their own research center at the university, […]
ExxonMobil’s Exit from Suriname Raises Pressure on Guyana Amid Natural Gas Concerns
By some estimates, there might be 2.4 billion barrels of oil deep below the waters of the Atlantic ocean off the coast of Suriname, South America’s smallest country. The problem for multinational oil companies seeking to extract that oil is what’s mixed in with it: trillions of cubic feet of methane, often referred to as […]
UK Regulator Bans ‘Misleading’ Lloyds Bank Climate Ad
The UK’s advertising regulator has banned an advert by Lloyds Bank about its “low carbon” policies for being misleading, in response to a formal complaint by the campaign group Adfree Cities. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled on Wednesday 18 December that the advert had “misled” consumers by promoting what the bank was doing internally […]
New Report Shows a Surge in European SLAPP Suits as Fossil Fuel Industry Works to Obstruct Climate Action
Lawsuits to silence those speaking out and fighting in the interest of the public are increasingly being used as a form of private censorship, according to a new report published last week by the Coalition Against SLAPPS in Europe, or CASE. Developed in collaboration with the Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation, the report shows that SLAPPs […]
Danielle Smith Is Hijacking Alberta Pensions for Ideological Ends
Pension funds are supposed to be boring – and for good reason. Low risk and long timelines are some of the hallmarks of responsible retirement fund management. So the recent drama around the Alberta government suddenly sacking the entire board and senior management of the Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) – and installing former Prime […]