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France Delays $7-Billion LNG Import Over West Texas Methane Emissions
France is slamming on the brakes on a US$7-billion liquefied natural gas import deal by energy trader and utility Engie, out of concern that ... -
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IEEFA Foresees ‘Stranded Assets, Depleted Finance’ in British Columbia’s LNG Strategy
The Conference Board of Canada stands accused of “doubling down on a bad hand” after the Cleveland-based Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis ... -
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Coloradans Urge Canadian Pension Holders to Stop Investing in Denver-Based Fracking Company [Video]
With the Canada Pension Plan’s biannual public meetings under way this week, people from across Colorado have put together a series of video messages ... -
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Horgan Takes Fire for Boosting Fossil Subsidies as B.C. Election Nears [Sign-On]
With British Columbia five days away from a provincial election October 24, and mail-in voting already well under way, Premier John Horgan’s New Democrats ... -
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Methane Emissions Rise 32% Despite Economic Slump as EU Considers Mandatory Import Standards
With global methane emissions rising sharply, by 32% so far this year despite the pandemic-driven recession, the European Union may consider mandatory emission standards ... -
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Analysis: Alberta Natural Gas Plan Has Kenney Venturing Boldly Backwards
The Jason Kenney government in Alberta is pitching hydrogen, plastics recycling, and even geothermal energy as elements of an economic diversification strategy that leans ... -
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‘Canadians Don’t Want This’: Fracking Company Owned by Canada Pension Plan Spent $600,000 to Influence Colorado State Elections
A company 95% owned by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Crestone Peak Resources, spent more than US$607,250 to shape the results of state ... -
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In Conversation: Canadian Pension Managers Must Divest Fossil Fuels, Catch Up with the Shift Off Carbon, Scott Says
Adam Scott is director of Shift:Action, an organization that engages with Canadian pension funds on climate accountability and risk. In this interview, he talks ... -
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Exxon Uses U.S. CCS Tax Credit to ‘Drive Up Profits, Keep Oil Flowing’
While carbon capture and storage is touted as a way to decarbonize fossil fuel production, colossal fossil ExxonMobil has been using a CCS facility ... -
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EU Climate Plan Allows Loophole for Gas, Raises Questions About Carbon Sinks
Even as the European Union took a victory lap earlier this month for boosting its 2030 carbon reduction target from 40 to 55%, decision-makers ... -
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Scathing New Report Finds ‘Failure Across the Board’ in Colossal Fossils’ Climate Plans
Despite a flurry of announcements from colossal fossils claiming great plans to decarbonize their operations, the companies’ actual performance shows they can’t be counted ... -
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Shell to Cut Oil and Gas Production Investment 30-40%, Fight Other Fossils for Renewables Market Share
Colossal fossil Royal Dutch Shell is planning to cut its oil and gas production costs 30 to 40% and focus more of its efforts ... -
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Pension Plan’s Fossil Investments Undercut Canada’s Climate Commitments, Report Concludes
The Canada Pension Plan’s “substantial private equity investments” in the fossil industry over the last few years have undercut the country’s climate commitments and ... -
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U.S. Fossils Fret Over PR Liability, Not Climate Impacts, of Natural Gas Flaring
Fossil companies in the United States worry about imperilling their public image by flaring far too much leftover natural gas from their operations, despite ... -
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Fossils Keep Paying Shareholders Despite Epic Financial Losses, Declining Business Prospects
Some of the world’s most colossal fossils posted epic financial losses between April and June this year, all in the interest of preserving their ...
