16 April 2021 Scientists have been clear that meeting the Paris Agreement’s climate goals means no expansion of the polluting gas industry.[1] Yet one of Australia’s largest and most polluting gas export projects, Australia Pacific LNG (APLNG), is seeking approval to...
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Australia Pacific LNG seeks massive expansion of polluting gas drilling
16 April 2021 Scientists have been clear that meeting the Paris Agreement’s climate goals means no expansion of the polluting gas industry.[1] Yet one of Australia’s largest and most polluting gas export projects, Australia Pacific LNG (APLNG), is seeking approval to...
Woodside faces shareholder and community opposition to gas expansion
15 April 2021 Woodside's AGM in Perth today saw almost a fifth of the gas giant's shareholders tell the company to wind up gas and oil production in line with the Paris climate goals. This was the second time in less than 12 hours that a significant proportion of...
13% of Santos shareholders demand oil and gas wind up plan
15 April 2021 At today's Santos annual general meeting, 13% of the company's shareholders voted against the company's management and for a Market Forces-coordinated shareholder resolution calling on the company to wind up oil and gas production in line with the...
Adani Ports removed from Dow Jones Sustainability Index
13 April 2021 S&P Dow Jones has announced that it will remove Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (Adani Ports) from its Sustainability Index in response to evidence presented to it by human rights and environmental groups in March. Market Forces, Australian...
Big banks snub local farmers concerned about Whitehaven Coal
12 April 2021 Whitehaven Coal is one of the biggest coal mining corporations on the Australian share market and some of the world’s biggest banks, including Westpac, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank, played a key role in lending $1 billion to the company in 2020. ...
PIMCO bans Adani Ports investment, spreading Carmichael coal pain to key Adani company
23 March 2021 PIMCO, US-based investment giant which in 2020 was the biggest known boldholder in Adani Ports, has prohibited any future investment in the company and has confirmed that it did not invest in Adani Ports’ most recent bond issue in January. This is due to...
S&P is reviewing Adani Ports’ inclusion on coveted Dow Jones Sustainability Index
19 March 2021 Within hours of receiving a letter from 37 groups calling on S&P Global to review Adani Ports’ inclusion on its Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), the ratings agency giant has confirmed it will conduct a formal review. S&P wrote to Market...
BlueScope Steel lagging on emission reduction targets
BlueScope Steel, the multinational steel-making corporation, is one of Australia’s major consumers of energy. The company requires large amounts of energy to be able to create steel via its smelting, furnace and production operations and is one of the top 20 energy...
APA quizzed on gas plans inconsistent with the Paris Agreement
22 October 2020 Today’s AGM saw Australia’s biggest gas pipeline company quizzed about its plans to expand gas infrastructure. Plans that are inconsistent with the climate goals of the Paris Agreement. Just two months ago, 25 leading scientists at Australian...