Australia passed breakthrough climate laws in March this year, 10 months after a new centre-left Labor government under Prime Minister Anthony Albanese took office. Even as the Albanese government passed its…Continue readingAustralia is preparing to burn – more fossil fuels
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Nearly 200 nations meeting in Dubai on Wednesday approved a first-ever call for the world to transition away from fossil fuels. The biggest-ever COP meeting hosted more than 88,000 people, including…Continue readingDubai summit adopts world-first ‘transition’ from fossil fuels
Rishi Sunak, David Cameron and King Charles are just three of the more than 70,000 delegates from nearly 200 countries at the latest UN climate summit in Dubai, COP28. But they…Continue readingWhy are people still flying to climate conferences by private jet?
The COP28 climate talks have been flooded with announcements hyping controversial carbon credits before rules for them have been hammered out, with environmental groups fearing “greenwashing” on a massive scale. The…Continue readingControversial carbon credits flood COP28, yet still no rules
Saudi Arabia is driving a huge global investment plan to create demand for its oil and gas in developing countries, an undercover investigation has revealed. Critics said the plan was designed…Continue readingRevealed: Saudi Arabia’s grand plan to ‘hook’ poor countries on oil
The president of COP28, Sultan Al Jaber, has claimed there is “no science” indicating that a phase-out of fossil fuels is needed to restrict global heating to 1.5˚C, the Guardian and…Continue readingCOP28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels
More than 400 oil and gas projects were approved globally in the last two years despite calls to abandon all new hydrocarbon development, new figures showed as the UN COP28 climate…Continue readingHundreds of new oil and gas projects approved despite climate crisis
Germany’s finance minister, withdrew his party’s support for a crucial agreement between the governing parties to phase out the nation’s coal-burning power plants by 2030. “Until it is clear that energy…Continue readingShifting Political Winds Threaten Progress on Europe’s Green Goals
When scientists examined pellets from recycled plastic collected in 13 countries they found hundreds of toxic chemicals, including pesticides and pharmaceuticals. The results are published in a study led by scientists…Continue readingScientists find hundreds of toxic chemicals in recycled plastics
The UK government presented the Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill to Parliament with the aim of enhancing the country’s economy, ensuring energy security, and facilitating the transition to a net-zero future. Under…Continue readingUK Government tables Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill in parliament
UK-based mining company Anglo American has secured mining lease approval for the expansion of its Lake Lindsay coal mine in Australia. The mining lease for the coal mine expansion was granted…Continue readingAnglo American gets mining lease for Lake Lindsay coal mine expansion
EnBW has awarded two orders to GE Vernova for the supply of H-class natural gas-fired combined cycle power generation equipment for two combined heat and power (CHP) power stations in Germany.…Continue readingEnBW awards orders to GE Vernova for two CHP power stations in Germany
British oil and gas company BP, together with its partners Neptune Energy and JAPEX, has started production from the Seagull oil and gas field in the UK North Sea. Seagull is…Continue readingBP, Neptune, JAPEX start production from Seagull field in UK North Sea
Authorities in Pakistan ordered schoolchildren in the smog-smothered city of Lahore to wear masks during lessons starting Thursday, an effort to protect against hazardous levels of polluted air. The Punjab state…Continue readingStudents ordered to wear masks in smog-hit Lahore
Israel’s Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure has awarded 12 licences to six companies to explore natural gas off the Mediterranean coast to enhance competition and diversify suppliers. “The winning companies have…Continue readingIsrael awards 12 offshore gas exploration licences to six companies
Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) celebrated with its partners, local officials and supporters the successful completion of the CPV Three Rivers Energy Center (CPV Three Rivers) in Grundy County, IL. Located approximately…Continue readingCompetitive Power Ventures completes 1.25GW Three Rivers natural gas-fired plant
Chevron has agreed to acquire rival American publicly listed oil and gas company Hess in an all-stock deal worth $53bn in a move to upgrade and diversify its portfolio. After the…Continue readingChevron signs $53bn all-stock deal to acquire rival oil and gas firm Hess
The EU has abandoned a promise to ban all but the most vital of toxic chemicals used in everyday consumer products, leaked documents show. Other legislation to be dropped includes a…Continue readingEU abandons promise to ban toxic chemicals in consumer products
Seatrium Limited announced the successful delivery of the Floating Production Unit (FPU), Whale, for deployment in the Gulf of Mexico, in accordance with the contract secured in November 2019 with Shell…Continue readingSeatrium delivers floating production unit for Gulf of Mexico project
BP and its partners have shipped the first cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the newly constructed third liquefaction train at the Tangguh LNG facility in Indonesia. Safely loaded and…Continue readingBP starts commercial operation of expanded Tangguh LNG facility in Indonesia
Australian oil and gas exploration and production company Beach Energy has made a gas discovery at Tarantula Deep-1 well in the Perth Basin, located in Western Australia. “With gas demand in…Continue readingBeach Energy makes new gas discovery at Tarantula Deep 1 well in Perth Basin
Sharjah Electricity, Water, and Gas Authority (SEWA), Sharjah Hamriyah Independent Power (SHIPCO), and GE Vernova began the commercial operations of all three blocks of the 1.8GW Hamriyah Independent Power Plant (IPP)…Continue readingUAE’s 1.8GW Hamriyah independent power plant starts commercial operations
UAE’s integrated gas processing company ADNOC Gas has entered into a multi-year liquified natural gas (LNG) supply agreement with JERA Global Markets, a subsidiary of Japan’s JERA. The agreement, valued between…Continue readingADNOC Gas signs multi-year LNG supply deal with JERA Global Markets
Commenting on this occasion, His Excellency Minister Al-Kaabi said: “We are delighted to sign these two long-term LNG sale and purchase agreements with Shell that will further enhance our decades-long relationship…Continue readingQatarEnergy, Shell sign 27-year LNG supply agreements for up to 3.5mtpa to the Netherlands
For the past couple of decades, tens of thousands of people living in rural Sri Lanka have been devastated by kidney failure due to unclear causes, also known as CKDu. Similar…Continue readingRoundup herbicide ingredient connected to epidemic levels of chronic kidney disease
ExxonMobil is buying itsoil and gas rival Pioneer Natural Resources in a $59.5 billion megadeal. The latest ExxonMobil deal creates a shale-drilling behemoth in the U.S. Permian Basin, where both it…Continue readingExxonMobil doubles down on fossil fuels with $59.5 billion Pioneer deal
TotalEnergies has signed a 27-year agreement with Qatar to secure liquefied natural gas, extending France’s commitment to fossil fuels beyond 2050 in one of the longest ever LNG supply deals. Qatar…Continue readingFrance’s Total signs 27-year LNG deal with Qatar
Experts predict there will be fewer than 100 individuals of the species by 2031 as the rate of decline in population grows faster. This month, the environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, received…Continue reading‘Watching extinction in real time’: conservationists losing hope for Australia’s swift parrot if logging continues
There is “no contradiction” between Brazil’s plans to step up oil and gas exploration, including in waters off the Amazon rainforest, and its aspiration to lead the world’s transition to green…Continue readingBrazil minister says oil and green ambitions are not contradictory
Urgewald, a campaign group that tracks global fossil fuel finance, found that the World Bank supplied about $3.7bn (£2.95bn) in trade finance in 2022 that was likely to have ended up…Continue readingWorld Bank spent billions of dollars backing fossil fuels in 2022
A prominent sheikh in the oil-rich Gulf state hosting this year’s UN climate negotiations, COP28, is heading a new rush to capture and sell carbon credits by managing tens of millions…Continue readingIn New Scramble for Africa, an Arab Sheikh Is Taking the Lead
The intent of the project is to boost production by 26 million barrels of oil equivalents from the satellite field of the Statfjord oil and gas field. The oil volume originally…Continue readingEquinor begins production from Statfjord Øst expansion project in North Sea
The Timi platform is designed to produce up to 50,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day of gas at peak production. It will transport its gas through a new 80km pipeline…Continue readingShell begins production at Timi sweet gas field development in Malaysia
Many credits in the voluntary market going unused, with study finding some offsetting could make global heating worse Carbon credit speculators could lose billions as scientific evidence shows many offsets they…Continue readingCarbon credit speculators could lose billions as offsets deemed ‘worthless’
Fossil fuels benefited from record subsidies of $13 million (£10.3m) a minute in 2022, according to the International Monetary Fund, despite being the primary cause of the climate crisis. The IMF…Continue readingFossil fuels being subsidised at rate of $13m a minute
Subject to certain conditions, the approval secures the future operation of Snøhvit natural gas field in the Norwegian Sea and the Hammerfest LNG plant located on the island of Melkøya. Operating…Continue readingEquinor gets Norway’s approval for $1.3bn Snøhvit Future project
Consultancy firm EY did not tell the New South Wales government it was conducting work for Santos before being awarded a $67,375 contract to inform a policy statement that greenlit the…Continue readingConsulting firm EY worked for gas giant Santos while advising NSW on gas policy
Grant Shapps, energy minister, has insisted that the government will “max out” the UK’s remaining reserves of North Sea oil and gas, arguing this is compatible with Britain’s pledge to reach…Continue readingGrant Shapps vows to ‘max out’ UK’s North Sea oil and gas reserves
The Murray Darling Basin Plan is an historic deal between state and federal governments to save Australia’s most important river system. The A$13 billion plan, inked over a decade ago, was…Continue readingWith less than a year to go, the Murray-Darling Basin Plan is in a dreadful mess
Shell has signed a new agreement to supply Morocco six billion cubic metres of liquefied natural gas (LNG) over 12 years. Morocco Minister of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development Leila Benali…Continue readingShell signs 12-year LNG supply deal with Morocco
Whitehaven in its statement said: “High-quality thermal coal has an important role to play in providing energy security during the decarbonisation transition.”Continue readingWhitehaven coal wins legal battle for extension of Narrabri underground mine
From the start of the Middle Arm project and its associated gas developments, there have been concerns about the potential for actual or perceived conflicts of interest by decision makers. An…Continue readingRevealed: documents detail key players behind vast Australian fossil fuel expansion
All articles sourced from the Adelaide Advertiser, dated May 19, 2023.Continue readingNews Corp endorses the Australian gas industry
“Given that Assad’s forces have used chemical weapons and flattened entire towns and cities in a murderous scorched-earth military campaign, it’s a sick joke to imagine that he’ll take the slightest…Continue readingAmnesty brands COP28 invitation to Bashar al-Assad as ‘sick joke’
The Australian federal environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, has approved habitat clearing for a defence housing development in Darwin despite acknowledging there is a significant risk for what has been described as…Continue readingTanya Plibersek approves habitat clearing in Darwin despite risk to endangered bird
Shell has abandoned plans to cut oil production each year for the rest of the decade, in a shift in approach to firmly target fossil fuels and increase payouts to shareholders…Continue readingShell drops target to cut oil production as CEO aims for higher profits
Environmental groups are suing the US Environmental Protection Agency over pesticide-coated seeds they say have “devastating environmental impacts” and are spread largely without regulatory oversight. The suit alleges the neonicotinoid seeds…Continue readingEPA sued over pesticide-coated seeds’ ‘devastating impacts’ on US wildlife
Norway’s government is readying plans to open an area of ocean nearly the size of Germany to deep-sea mining as it seeks to become the first country to extract battery metals…Continue readingNorway seeks to open vast ocean area to deep-sea mining
DuPont scientists found PFAS enlarged lab rats’ livers and likely caused birth defects in workers. Still, the company told its employees the cancer-linked compounds are “about as toxic as table salt”.…Continue readingChemical industry used big tobacco’s tactics to conceal evidence of PFAS risks
The United Arab Emirates’ state oil company has been able to read emails to and from the COP28 climate summit office and was consulted on how to respond to a media…Continue reading‘Absolute scandal’: UAE state oil firm able to read COP28 climate summit emails
After receiving the £430m loan, Wood grew its upstream oil and gas business by 17% so that it accounted for more than $3bn (£2.4bn) in revenue in 2022, up from $2.6bn…Continue readingUK firm given £430m green transition loan then expanded oil and gas business
The UK government is under attack for investing taxpayers’ money in fossil fuel companies, a hospital in Kenya accused of imprisoning patients who couldn’t pay for treatment, and a business in…Continue readingUK government under fire for investing overseas aid in fossil fuel firms
United Nations climate chief says while the rapid end of burning coal, oil, and natural gas is urgently needed, the topic may not even reach crucial COP28 negotiations.Continue readingWill fossil fuel phase-out make it onto the UN’s climate agenda?
To help extract oil, companies pump large quantities of water into the ground. For each barrel of oil, many of which are later exported to Europe, up to three barrels of…Continue readingIraq’s oil boom blamed for worsening water crisis in drought-hit south
Environmental groups say the event in Perth to court the biggest polluting oil company of all time is ‘akin to a joint trade show with a tobacco major’Continue readingAustrade forum to promote links with oil giant Saudi Aramco condemned by activists
Climate experts criticised the G7 group of advanced economies for failing to commit to tougher action on fossil fuels after Germany and Japan prevailed on the continued use of gas and…Continue readingG7 disappoints on climate progress without deadlines on gas and coal use
South Australia’s minister for energy and mining has told a conference of the oil and gas industry in Adelaide that his state government is “at your disposal”.Continue readingSouth Australia tells gas industry the state is ‘at your disposal’
“The Albanese government has to make decisions in accordance with the facts and the national environment law – that’s what happens on every project, and that’s what’s happened here,” a spokesperson…Continue readingAlbanese government approves first new coalmine since taking power
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The proposed mandate requires existing power plants to start limiting their carbon dioxide emissions in 2030, introducing restrictions that would become more stringent over time. Any new gas power plants would…Continue readingThe EPA tightens pollution standards for power plants, with a big loophole for coal and gas
Two years ago, a multibillion-dollar natural gas export project planned for Alaska appeared all but dead, the victim of tough economics and Donald Trump’s trade wars. But now it’s got fresh…Continue readingAnother big Alaska fossil fuel project gets Biden team’s blessing
“The world will need these vital oil resources to meet future energy demand and help ensure an affordable, just and secure energy transition.” The Uaru field development project, which is expected…Continue readingExxonMobil, Hess take FID on $12.7bn Uaru oil project offshore Guyana
An annual report on fossil fuel financing by a coalition of campaign groups organised by the Rainforest Action Network found that RBC extended $42.1bn in funding to fossil fuel companies and…Continue readingRoyal Bank of Canada becomes top financier for fossil fuel industry
The United States is Earth’s punching bag for nasty weather. Blame geography for the U.S. getting hit by stronger, costlier, more varied and frequent extreme weather than anywhere on the planet,…Continue reading“Buckle up. More extreme events are expected,” says head of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The race for high-tech metals has sparked a cobalt boom in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that has come at a steep human cost. In an e360 interview, author Siddharth…Continue readingFor Your Phone and EV, a Cobalt Supply Chain to a Hell on Earth
The proposed US goal to double electricity transmission lines and build a separate electric vehicle charging network while also expanding solar and wind production to move to 100% renewable generation is,…Continue readingThe squeeze on powering the open road
Businesses want to trawl for nickel, manganese and cobalt to build electric cars and windfarms.Continue readingDeep-sea mining for rare metals will destroy ecosystems, say scientists
Sempra announced that it reached a positive final investment decision (FID) for the development, construction and operation of the Port Arthur LNG Phase 1 project in Jefferson County, Texas. “At Sempra,…Continue readingSempra launches Port Arthur LNG project
Rise of 53% came as oil group’s profits hit record $40bn in tumultuous year for energy markets. It brings van Beurden’s total compensation from Shell since becoming chief executive in 2014…Continue readingEx-Shell chief Ben van Beurden’s pay jumped to £9.7mn last year
“Shell can’t claim to be in transition as long as investments in fossil fuels dwarf investments in renewables,” said Mark van Baal, founder of Follow This, an activist shareholder group.Continue readingShell profits more than double to record $40bn
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC, owned by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India) is in talks with global oil majors to infuse state of the…Continue readingONGC invest $3.5bn to keep up production
Environment ministers’ decisions spanning 15 years made no difference to amount of habitat destroyed, researchers say.Continue readingSystem to protect Australia’s threatened species from development ‘more or less worthless’, study finds
In line with its growth strategy in gas and LNG, a fuel contributing to the energy transition, TotalEnergies announces the start of gas production from onshore Block 10 in the Sultanate…Continue readingTotalEnergies is rolling out its integrated gas strategy
Investigation into Verra carbon standard finds most are ‘phantom credits’ and may worsen global heating.Continue readingRevealed: more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest provider are worthless, analysis shows
Financial institutions signed up to GFANZ initiative accused of acting as ‘climate arsonists’.Continue readingBanks still investing heavily in fossil fuels despite net zero pledges – study
“New gas volumes will be key to enabling the development of new value chains for hydrogen for Europe.”Continue readingNorway offers 47 new offshore production licences to 25 oil companies
Woodside Energy, Santos and BHP among companies who have sponsorship deals with Australian arts, sport, education and community organisationsContinue readingFossil fuel interests revealed to have sponsored more than 500 Australian community organisations
Spending bill passed by Senate includes less than $1bn in climate assistance for poorer nations even though Biden promised $11.4bnContinue readingUS fails to give money promised for developing countries to ease climate impacts
DfT refuses to publish emission figures, which campaigners say could make new road projects unviable.Continue readingUK government blocks release of CO₂ figures behind transport plan
The phase II of Johan Sverdrup project entails an investment of NOK48bn ($4.8bn) and includes a new platform, five new subsea systems, 28 new wells, a new module for the existing…Continue readingEquinor begins production from Johan Sverdrup Phase 2 project
Claim by academics, including former integrity chair of Australia’s carbon credit scheme, raises further doubts about system. ‘The wild west approach needs to end,’ says climate scientist Bill Hare, amid warning…Continue readingAustralia’s carbon offset scheme fraudulent
Wealthy nations have offered Vietnam a $15.5 billion package to help pay for its move from coal to renewable energy, the latest in a total of $44 billion in deals aimed…Continue readingWealthy nations offer Vietnam $15 billion-plus deal to shift from coal
The first coal mine in Britain for 30 years has been given the go-ahead by the government. Michael Gove, the levelling-up secretary, granted approval for the mine in Whitehaven in Cumbria.…Continue readingFirst UK coal mine in 30 years gets government go-ahead
At least 8 coalmining projects in Great Barrier Reef catchments and floodplains have been exempted from requiring environmental impact statements (EIS) by the Queensland government, with 6 already gaining state environmental…Continue readingCoal projects in Great Barrier Reef catchments approved without environmental impact statements
Big polluting industries have been given almost €100 billion (£86 billion) in free carbon permits by the EU in the last nine years. The free permits did not come with climate…Continue readingBig polluters given almost €100 billion in free carbon permits by EU
Dutch construction company HSM Offshore Energy has secured a contract for the construction of a production platform at N05-A gas field in the North Sea. HSM will build the N05-A gas…Continue readingHSM wins contract to build N05-A gas production platform in North Sea