Equity Generation Lawyers (EGL) and Market Forces have formally lodged a complaint with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) against APA Group - Australia's biggest gas pipeline operator - for misrepresenting the costs, scale and financial...
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Scientists, Health Experts, Securityholders and NT communities put APA on notice over Beetaloo gas expansion
At APA Group’s 2025 Annual Meeting in Sydney, community leaders from the Northern Territory, climate scientists, doctors, and securityholders united to deliver one message the board could not ignore: You can’t claim climate action or Paris-alignment while building...
Empire Energy’s gas fracking fantasies
Will the Empire strike out? Empire Energy (which just changed its name to Beetaloo Energy Australia, but will be referred to as Empire Energy throughout this article) has come under fire over the viability of its dangerous fracking operations in the Northern...
UniSuper exits gas pipeline company APA Group
UniSuper, Australia’s fourth largest superannuation fund, has dumped its remaining shares in APA Group. Until recently, UniSuper was APA’s largest shareholder, owning 10% of the company. The fund sold $500 million worth of APA shares in October this year, before...
Global investors want more climate action from Japan’s megabanks
OPINION | Will van de Pol, CEO at Market Forces Japan's big banks have a big problem. Like climate change, it will get much worse unless it is addressed quickly. The megabanks are lagging behind when it comes to playing their part in the critical transition to clean...
International banks no longer involved with Santos’ Barossa gas project
News just broke that BNP Paribas and The Export-Import Bank of Korea, two major international banks, are no longer involved in the financing of Santos’ Barossa gas project. Tell Australian, Japanese, and other international banks to cut ties with Santos. It was...
NAB responds to shareholder warning on fossil fuel funding
NAB’s update is welcome progress but still falls short of alignment with the bank’s climate commitments.
Days of reckoning on the future of gas
OPINION | Axel Dalman, Head of Research at Market Forces The oil and gas industry had a critical opportunity at this week’s Australian Energy Producers conference, held in Perth, to exchange ideas on how to meet the existential threat posed to their business by the...
ANZ rules out Papua LNG, leaves the door open to fund climate wrecking companies
This week ANZ announced that it would no longer provide direct financing to new or expanded oil and gas fields, new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plants, and won’t bank any oil and gas company not already on their books. The announcement means that all big four...
Woodside suffers world record-breaking vote against climate plan, embarrassingly large vote against Chair
Shareholders have today expressed their contempt for Woodside’s repeated failure to heed their concerns by fiercely rejecting the company’s climate strategy. Beating its own world record vote against a climate plan in 2022, a staggering 58% of Woodside’s shareholders...