Lawrence Carter

BP, Total Set To Drill Near Newly Discovered Amazonian Coral Reef

The discovery of the reef has raised concerns that oil exploration in the area poses a threat to a vast ecosystem that isn’t yet understood.

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作者 Lawrence Carter

BP and Total are planning to drill for oil near a recently discovered coral reef off the coast of Brazil, Energydesk can reveal. Together the oil majors own five deepwater exploration licences in the Foz do Amazonas (Mouth of the Amazon River) basin and are expected to be granted permits to begin exploratory drilling early this year – once their

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British MPs Demand UK’s Largest Energy Company Stop Funding Climate Change Denial

Labour’s Mary Creagh, who chairs the environmental audit select committee, condemned the payments as “outrageous, anti-science nonsense.”

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作者 Lawrence Carter
Rick Perry at the 2016 Republican National Convention. in Cleveland, Ohio. (Dennis Van Tine/STAR MAX/IPx/AP)

(REPORT) --- Britain’s biggest energy company has come under fire from leading MPs over its donations to a climate change denying think tank in the US, revealed by Energydesk last week. Caroline Lucas, leader of the Green Party, has written to Centrica – which owns British Gas – to demand it stop funding the Texas Public Policy Foundation

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British Gas Giant Centrica Funding Climate Denial Group Linked To Trump

Centrica donated large sums to an Austin-based think tank that played a central role in the US climate denial movement, which is now poised to take control of energy and environmental policy under Donald Trump.

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作者 Lawrence Carter
Rick Perry at the 2016 Republican National Convention. in Cleveland, Ohio. (Dennis Van Tine/STAR MAX/IPx/AP)

The UK’s biggest energy company, Centrica, has donated tens of thousands of dollars to a Texas-based climate denial think tank strongly linked to Donald Trump’s new energy secretary Rick Perry, Energydesk can reveal. Centrica, which owns British Gas and is a major investor in UK fracking, has made a number of donations to the Texas Public Policy

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British Government Uses Aid Money To Back Oil Drilling In UNESCO World Heritage Site

UK oil company Surestream has a stake in two oil blocks overlapping the lake, while United Arab Emirates firm RAK Gas holds the rights to explore in the UN protected zone itself.

Maeve McClenaghan
Joe Sandler Clarke
Lawrence Carter
作者 Maeve McClenaghan
和 Joe Sandler Clarke
和 Lawrence Carter
Fisherman on Lake Malawi, the lake supports the livelihood of 1.5m people.

British officials are using aid money to support oil drilling in a World Heritage Site in Africa, according to an Energydesk investigation. Government documents, obtained through freedom of information (FOI), reveal that the Foreign Office pledged thousands of pounds in aid to support drilling in Lake Malawi, where the UN warns that a spill

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