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British Columbia just delivered a master class in clean energy deployment. Premier David Eby just announced nine new wind generating projects totaling 5,000 gigawatt hours of new capacity that will be 50 percent Indigenous-owned and generate up to $6 billion…

City Council OKs private equity firm’s purchase of Entergy gas utility, undermining climate goals and jacking up prices for the city’s poorest. The post New Orleans Residents Face Surge in Energy Costs from Sale of Gas Utility appeared first on DeSmog.

If you don’t live anywhere near an export terminal for liquified natural gas (LNG), you could still feel big impacts from the industry’s planned construction boom in the U.S. – and not just because the fossil fuel is rapidly worsening the climate crisis.…

For the first time in years, the UK is governed by a party that wants to accelerate climate action, rather than reverse it.  Labour stood on a defiantly pro-net zero ticket at the 4 July general election, and scored a clear victory. Over the course of the six…

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was the “special guest of honour” at the launch of the Heartland Institute’s new European offshoot on Tuesday (17 December).  The Heartland Institute – one of the organisations involved in the radical Project 2025 agenda…

As the liquefied natural gas (LNG) boom gained momentum in southwest Louisiana, one public institution of higher learning, McNeese State University, courted the industry to help launch a new LNG Center of Excellence, hired a director doubling as an LNG…

By some estimates, there might be 2.4 billion barrels of oil deep below the waters of the Atlantic ocean off the coast of Suriname, South America’s smallest country. The problem for multinational oil companies seeking to extract that oil is what’s mixed in…

The UK’s advertising regulator has banned an advert by Lloyds Bank about its “low carbon” policies for being misleading, in response to a formal complaint by the campaign group Adfree Cities. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled on Wednesday…

Lawsuits to silence those speaking out and fighting in the interest of the public are increasingly being used as a form of private censorship, according to a new report published last week by the Coalition Against SLAPPS in Europe, or CASE.  Developed in…

Pension funds are supposed to be boring – and for good reason. Low risk and long timelines are some of the hallmarks of responsible retirement fund management.   So the recent drama around the Alberta government suddenly sacking the entire board and senior…