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Adam Barnett

Adam Barnett covers UK news. He was formerly a staff writer at Left Foot Forward, and a BBC Local Democracy Reporter.

Articles by Adam Barnett

Business Secretary Rejects Climate Denier's Bid to Revive Fracking
ByAdam Barnett
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The petition was backed by former Brexit Party MEP Lance Forman and conservative commentator Darren Grimes.
UK Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng
uk/BP and Shell Pension Schemes Still Lack Net Zero Targets Despite Company Pledges
ByAdam Barnett
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Santander, Boots, BMW and Centrica also feature among the top 20 UK pension plans without carbon neutral goals.
Lower half of person in black standing on their black bicycle in downtown Berlin with a cardboard sign painted with 'systems change not climate change' and an adapted yellow and red Shell logo pointing down with 'Shell must fall', hanging on the back wheel
Revealed: the PR Firm Behind the UK's Net Zero Backlash
ByAdam Barnett
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Blue Sky Strategy, run by anti-BBC campaigner Rebecca Ryan, was listed on the website of a group whose founder calls climate change a “con”.
Sticker criticising the salary of BBC radio presenter Stephen Nolan. Credit: Rossographer (CC BY-SA 2.0)
uk/‘The Mask Slipped’: HSBC Criticised For Suspending Exec While Still Pumping Billions into Fossil Fuels
ByAdam Barnett
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Analysis last year by DeSmog found numerous ties between directors of the British bank and polluting companies.
HSBC
uk/GB News Appoints Chairman Who Spent Years Promoting Climate Denial
ByAdam Barnett
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Alan McCormick has tweeted articles questioning climate science and chairs a foundation that has received funding from fossil fuel interests.
GB News presenters Dan Wootton and Nigel Farage. Credit: YouTube
uk/Boris Johnson Meets Coal Baron on India Tour Despite Calling For End to Dirtiest Fossil Fuel
ByAdam Barnett
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Boris Johnson and Gautam Adani also met last year ahead of the COP26 climate summit, at which the UK pushed for a global phase-out of coal-fired power.
Boris Johnson Adani
uk/Media Gives Climate Denier Fuel Lobbyist a Platform to Attack 'Just Stop Oil' Protests
ByAdam Barnett
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Five major outlets quoted FairFuelUK lobbyist Howard Cox, who opposes net zero policies and rejects climate science.
Just Stop Oil protest April 2022
uk/The Sun’s Pro-Fracking Poll was Paid for by Climate Denial Group
ByAdam Barnett
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The tabloid failed to mention that Net Zero Watch, which last week called for renewables to be ‘wound down’ completely, was behind the survey.
GWPF Founder Lord Lawson
uk/Anti-Net Zero MP Backs ‘Laughable’ Report Urging Renewables be 'Wound Down'
ByAdam Barnett
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Green Party leader Caroline Lucas has called the Net Zero Watch report "an incoherent jumble of climate denialism, fake news and truth-twisting".
Craig Mackinlay windfarms 2
Analysis
uk/Media Repeats Kremlin Anti-Fracking Claims – While Ignoring Russia's Promotion of Climate Denial
ByAdam Barnett
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The claims stem from an unsubstantiated remark made in 2014 by the then NATO general secretary, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, that Russia had “actively engaged” with environmental groups opposing shale gas “to maintain European dependence on imported Russian gas”.
Putin on RT