Total claims it can make up for the biodiversity impacts of drilling in Uganda’s largest national park by preserving biodiversity elsewhere, but local advocates aren’t buying it.
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How Australia’s CANDU Conservatives Fell in Love with Canadian Nuclear
Ontario, Canada is the only place in the world to tear out wind turbines and embrace nuclear power. Australia’s conservatives have been taking notes.
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Podcast: The Massive Climate Case that Shell Both Won and Lost, and What It Means for the Future of Global Climate Litigation
Although the Dutch court walked back the specific amount by which Shell needs to reduce its global emissions, it reaffirmed the judgement that the company is legally required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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The Australian Public Servant Who Helped The Oil Industry Convince The World That Stopping Climate Change Was Too Expensive
Brian Fisher, an economist employed for decades by the Australian government, was essential to obstructing not just climate policy in Australia but global climate action.
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Dispatch: For a Preview of Project 2025, Look to Argentina
It’s hard for people to imagine the environmental impacts of fascism until they experience them firsthand. Argentina holds a warning for the U.S.
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In El Salvador a Cold Case Murder Has Become a Weapon for Silencing Environmental Activists
El Salvador’s dictator Nayib Bukele wants to bring mining back to the first country that ever banned it. But first, he needs to silence the activists who got the ban passed.
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Nearly 30 Years After the Ogoni 9 Tragedy, Nigerians Are Still Resisting Oil Colonialism
Shell announced in late 2023 that it would be shutting down all of its onshore activities in Nigeria and concentrating its efforts offshore. It leaves behind poisoned water, multiple political and economic crises, and a country that is measurably worse off today than when its oil industry began. Meanwhile the government continues to target environmental […]
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2023 Report on Energy Charter Treaty Activities
This report on 2023 ECT Secretariat activities includes a note on CONsolidation-EXpansion-Outreach (CONEXO) activities, including an effort to expand the ECT to the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries "OPEC", noting that “in view of exploring potential cooperation, a technical meeting between both organisations was organised in June 2023.”
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Drilled-Damages Debunking the “Moral Case” For Fossil Fuels
When global leaders first began meeting to discuss an international effort on climate change, fossil fuel companies and right wing pundits complained that any deal that didn’t require everyone to transition at the same pace was unfair. Groups like the Global Climate Coalition, which brought together all the industries that objected to emissions regulations, would […]
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S10, Ep2 | Disha Ravi on Becoming the “Radical” Face of Protest in India at 22
For Disha Ravi, the price of success for effective climate activism in India was a sedition charge.