At the Santos 2026 annual general meeting, Traditional Owners and Indigenous Leaders travelled thousands of kilometres - from Papua New Guinea, Borroloola (Northern Territory), and Narrabri (NSW) - to challenge the company’s controversial gas expansion plans....
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Climate Financial Group Urges Shareholders to Vote Against Directors at Japan’s Megabanks and Trading Houses
Market Forces Launches “Governance Wakeup Call” Campaign April 22, 2026 Market Forces TOKYO — Environmental finance advocacy organisation, Market Forces has sent a briefing to major institutional investors recommending a vote against the re-election of key directors...
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Major international investors and First Peoples urge Santos to end gas growth
Thursday 16 April: Four of the world's biggest investors have voted against the re-election of Santos directors or gas growth aligned executive payments as First Peoples, Market Forces and shareholders urge the company to end its increasingly risky gas expansion...
Bangladesh at crossroads: renewables or imported fuel chaos
The energy crisis is hitting Bangladesh’s 177 million people hard, but experts have been urging to end dependence on imported coal and gas in favour of reliable renewables. The Strait of Hormuz is all anyone is talking about and safe passage of energy tankers is at...
Action needed by Southeast Asia’s Central Banks on escalating climate risks
By Rachel Ho, Asia Energy and Climate Finance Fellow, Market Forces. Ms Ho has a decade of experience in the private industrial and technology sector across Australia, Indonesia and the broader Asia Pacific. The global oil and gas crisis is going from bad to worse....
APA Group and fossil fuel industry must come clean on true costs of gas
By Will van de Pol, Chief Executive, Market Forces Of all the things being destroyed as a result of the United States and Israel’s war on Iran, long-term demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG) is not the first to spring to mind. But when high fuel price projections...
New analysis: Santos contributes to quadrupled gas prices for Australians
Wednesday 8 April: New Market Forces analysis reveals Australia’s second biggest oil and gas company, Santos, is contributing to nearly quadrupled gas prices on the East Coast of the country by prioritising the sale of its fossil fuels overseas, adding to cost of...
ASIC complaint against APA Group
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...
Harita deletes key coal power information disclosures from website
Monday 16 March 2026 Following the filing of a complaint by Market Forces to the Singapore Exchange, Harita Nickel removed specific coal power capacity figures from its website. The original disclosure, which cited a current capacity of 910 MW and a planned total of...