MEDIA RELEASE Wednesday 26 April: Traditional Owners of three First Nations across Australia along with superannuation fund members have lodged human rights complaints against the top 20 Australian super funds over hundreds of millions of dollars of members’ money invested in Santos and its Barossa and Narrabri gas projects. Australia’s … Read More
Santos faces Traditional Owner ire, investor demands to manage down expansion plans
6 April 2023 More than 18% of Santos’ shareholders today demanded the company drop its oil and gas expansion plans and instead manage down production in line with a net zero emissions by 2050 pathway at the company’s annual general meeting (AGM) in Adelaide. The company also faced fierce scrutiny … Read More
Australia’s big four banks face human rights complaint over Santos Barossa financing
5 April 2023 Tiwi Islands and Larrakia Traditional Owners have lodged formal complaints alleging the big four Australian banks – ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, NAB and Westpac – and a host of international financiers breached their human rights commitments by participating in a $1.5 billion loan to Santos, related to the … Read More
Dirty and Dark – political donations from the fossil fuel industry
1 February 2023 The Australian Government continues to support fossil fuel exploration and development in Australia, despite 2021 modelling by the International Energy Agency (IEA), confirmed again in late 2022, which finds that there can be no new coal, oil or gas projects if the world is to achieve zero … Read More