#fossil_fuels

#Total : An Illusion of Climate Strategy
▻http://multinationales.org/Total-An-Illusion-of-Climate-Strategy

Total likes to present itself as a responsible business with a strategy for dealing with #climate_change. The French company even published its own climate strategy, explaining how it intends to contribute to the goal of keeping global warming below 2°C. But as 350.org France and Observatoire des multinationales reveal in this new report, Total’s actions and strategy are completely at odds with effective action to tackle the climate crisis. Total is facing pressure from some of its investors (...)

#Investigations

/ A la une, #Extractive_Industries, #Energy, Total, #Greenwashing, #Fossil_fuels, climate change, #shale_gas, #greenhouse_gas, #marketing, #energy, new (...)

#new_technologies
« ▻http://www.total.com/sites/default/files/atoms/files/integrating_climate_into_our_strategy_eng.pdf »
« ►https://multinationales.org/IMG/pdf/en_total_report.pdf »
« ►https://multinationales.org/IMG/pdf/350-total.pdf »
►http://multinationales.org/IMG/pdf/en_total_report.pdf

#shale_gas : how Algerians rallied against the Regime and Foreign Oil Companies
▻http://multinationales.org/Shale-gas-how-Algerians-rallied-against-the-Regime-and-Foreign-Oil-

Protests erupted last year in #Algeria against government-approved shale gas exploration. The drilling sites are particularly contentious as they are located near Saharan towns and oases, and threaten already scarce #water resources. Fifty years after the former colonial power conducted nuclear tests in the Algerian Sahara, the French State, #Total and other multinational companies were accused of interference. Basta! and the Multinationals Observatory explored the issues around this (...)

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/ #Extractive_Industries, Algeria, Total, #Extractive_Industries, #Fossil_fuels, #local_communities, water, shale gas, #extractive_industries, environmental (...)

#environmental_impact
« ►http://www.total.com/fr/medias/actualite/communiques/20091222-algerie-consortium-mene-par-total-acquiert-participation-49-pour-cen »
« ►http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/jose-bove/280215/le-gouvernement-algerien-doit-interdire-la-fracturation-hydraulique »
« ►http://www.algerie-focus.com/blog/2015/03/in-salah-total-algerie-nous-navons-jamais-eu-de-licence-de-gaz-de-sch »
« ►http://www.elwatan.com/complements/2015/02/27/moratoire-de-gaz-schiste-insalah_2601380.pdf »
« ►http://www.sonatrach.com/declaration_PDG_GazSchiste_FracturationHydroulique.html »
« ►http://www.lepoint.fr/confidentiels/exclusif-gaz-de-schiste-la-france-va-explorer-en-algerie-20-12-2012-1604170_ »
« ►http://www.stopaugazdeschiste07.org/IMG/pdf/cp_algerie_20150301.pdf »
« ►https://www.facebook.com/180455612007566/photos/pcb.794135837306204/794135720639549/?type=1&theater »
« ►http://www.aps.dz/economie/15747-gaz-de-schiste-les-r%C3%A9sultats-du-premier-forage-pilote-%E2%80%98%E2%80 »
« ►http://economie.jeuneafrique.com/entreprises/entreprises/energie/24144-algerie-gaz-de-schisme.html »

Sharan Burrow: « If a company refuses to have a plan for decarbonisation and preserving jobs, ultimately they are targets for divestment. »
▻http://multinationales.org/Sharan-Burrow-If-a-company-refuses-to-have-a-plan-for-decarbonisati

With the climate crisis, the rise of multinational corporations and global geopolitical shifts, the international union movement confronted with fundamentally new issues. The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), which represents more than 300 unions in 162 countries and territories, is first in line to develop a response to these challenges. Interview with Sharan Burrow, ITUC Secretary-General since 2010. ITUC has been actively involved in the international climate debate for (...)

#Investigations

/ A la une, #Fossil_fuels, #Workers'_Rights_and_Freedom_of_Association, #work_conditions, #workers'_rights, #decent_work, #climate_change, #corporate_legal_responsibility, #corporate_social_responsibility, #human_rights, supply (...)

#supply_chain
“▻http://www.ituc-csi.org/new-ituc-report-exposes-hidden”

Pollution, Drought and Threats: the Disturbing Cocktail of #Colombia's Oil Industry
▻http://multinationales.org/Pollution-Drought-and-Threats-the-Disturbing-Cocktail-of-Colombia-s

Perenco is a low-profile French oil company, owned by one of France’s richest families. Basta! and the Multinationals Observatory investigated its practices in Colombia where #Perenco owns several concessions, alongside other companies. The oil industry has been accused of playing a role in the droughts that have grown more frequent in the Amazon Savannah. It also faces accusations of negligence in regards to the pollution left to contaminate marshes and rivers. In spite of the blockading (...)

#Investigations

/ #Extractive_Industries, Colombia, Perenco, #Extractive_Industries, #Fossil_fuels, #local_communities, #human_rights, #social_impact, #environmental_impact, #extractive_industries, #regulations_and_norms, A la (...)

“▻http://casanarenoticias.com/index.php/component/k2/item/1526-en-caso-del-estero-matemarrano-tribunal-demanda-pacto-de-cump”
“►http://www.elespectador.com/noticias/nacional/autoridades-apuntan-cinco-pecados-posibles-causa-de-seq-articulo-48412”
“►http://www.eltiempo.com/politica/justicia/detrimento-patrimonial-en-zonas-con-poca-agua/16372557”
“►http://www.liberation.fr/monde/2012/02/25/la-colombie-ferme-les-yeux-sur-les-entreprises-alliees-aux-milices_798637”
“►http://www.elespectador.com/noticias/investigacion/petrolera-perenco-y-los-paras-articulo-320929”
“▻http://www.perenco-colombia.com”
“►http://www.bnamericas.com/news/oilandgas/colombian-regulator-suspends-perenco-crude-transport”
“▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2CKkaSzQEg%20et%20https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awjKzdKCsnE

In Alberta and Downstream, the Heavy Toll of the Oil Sands Industry on #water and the Environment
▻http://multinationales.org/In-Alberta-and-downstream-the-heavy-toll-of-the-oil-sands-industry-

In Alberta, Canadian and international oil companies, including #Shell and #Total, develop oil sands deposits at a frantic pace. Despite the current oil price slump, they still hope to triple production by 2030. While there is much talk of its greenhouse gas emissions, the oil sands industry also has heavy, lesser-known impacts on water resources and #biodiversity. The consequences of excessive water extraction and pollution are beginning to be felt downstream, perhaps all the way to the (...)

#Investigations

/ A la une, #Extractive_Industries, #Canada, Shell, Total, #Extractive_Industries, #Fossil_fuels, biodiversity, #climate_change, #local_communities, water, #environmental_impact, #social_impact, #extractive_industries, #regulations_and_norms, #Environmental_Health, (...)

#energy

Cleaner Oil Sands? #Shell and Veolia’s Carmon Creek Project
▻http://multinationales.org/Cleaner-Oil-Sands-Shell-and-Veolia-s-Carmon-Creek-Project

Shell and Veolia, an oil and gas major and a #water company, have joined forces to design a new, ’ecological’ oil sands plant at Carmon Creek, on the Peace River in Alberta, #Canada. According to them, this new plant will have almost zero impact on water resources. But many experts are skeptical, and there is little detail about their exact plans. Meanwhile, the starting date for the plant seems to have been postponed until at least 2019. Second part of Edward Struzik’s report on oil sands and (...)

#Investigations

/ #Water_and_Sanitation, #Extractive_Industries, Canada, Shell, #Veolia_environnement, #Fossil_fuels, water, #shale_gas, #environmental_impact, #extractive_industries, #regulations_and_norms, #Environmental_Health, #transparency, (...)

#energy

Naomi Klein: “If you can marry an economic justice agenda with climate action, people will fight for that future”
▻http://multinationales.org/Naomi-Klein-If-you-can-marry-an-economic-justice-agenda-with-climat

Given the massive inequalities generated by capitalism and the ecological urgency of #climate_change, “everything can change”, Naomi Klein claims in a new book. Provided we do not “give in to despair”, because “too many lives are at stake”, and “fight for a more just economic system”. The Canadian anti-globalization activist and essayist is famous for her inspired criticism of capitalism: No Logo denounced the tyranny of global brands, and The Shock Doctrine the brutality of neoliberal (...)

#Investigations

/ #Extractive_Industries, #Energy, #Fossil_fuels, #trade_and_investment_agreements, #public_campaign, climate change, #greenhouse_gas, #social_impact, environmental (...)

#environmental_impact
“►https://vimeo.com/124380476

Opposition mounts towards #shale_gas in Algeria
▻http://multinationales.org/Opposition-mounts-towards-shale

The Algerian Sahara has been in the grip of mobilisations against shale gas operations since 1 January 2015, when some 1500 people took to the streets of In Salah, 35 kilometres from the site where #Total and Algerian state-owned company #Sonatrach are conducting the country’s first shale drilling in the Ahnet Basin. This article was originally published in French mid-January 2015. Despite the Algerian government’s annoucement that it will temporarily suspend fracking plans, protests continue. (...)

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/ #Fossil_fuels, Total, Sonatrach, #Extractive_Industries, #Energy, shale gas, #water, #local_communities, #extractive_industries, #environmental_impact, workers’ (...)

#workers'_protest
« ▻http://www.equaltimes.org/opposition-mounts-to-shale-gas-in »
« ►http://www.elwatan.com »
« ▻http://www.eia.gov/countries/country-data.cfm?fips=ag »
« ►http://www.algeria-watch.org/pdf/pdf_fr/gdS-algerie.pdf »
« ►http://www.algeria-watch.org/fr/article/eco/gaz_schiste/craintes_agriculteurs.htm »

The UK : latest front line in the European #shale_gas battles
▻http://multinationales.org/The-UK-latest-front-line-in-the

The #United_Kingdom is full of strong opinions when it comes to shale gas, which requires hydraulic fracturing (or ‘fracking’) – the controversial technique where a mixture of water, sand and chemicals is injected at high pressure into rock followed by depressurisation – to extract it. David Cameron’s conservative coalition government is pushing harder than ever on both a domestic and European level to promote the practice (and the lucrative rewards assumed to go with it). Meanwhile, thousands of (...)

#Investigations

/ #Extractive_Industries, #Energy, United Kingdom, #Total, #GDF_Suez, #Cuadrilla, #Extractive_Industries, #Fossil_fuels, #Lobbying, #local_communities, shale gas, #greenhouse_gas, #social_impact, #environmental_impact, #extractive_industries, #energy, regulations and (...)

#regulations_and_norms #influence
« ►http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21120-how-fracking-caused-earthquakes-in-the-uk.html »
« ►http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/28/fracking-office-single-unit-shale-gas-produced »
« ►http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geoffreylean/100282976/want-to-know-how-fracking-will-affect-you-sorry-thats-a-state-sec »
« ►http://www.ukoog.org.uk/about-ukoog/press-releases/131-new-survey-shows-57-of-britons-support-natural-gas-from-shale »
« ►http://www.leparisien.fr/environnement/exclusif-environnement-72-des-francais-contre-l-exploitation-du-gaz-de-sc »
« ►http://www.renewablesinternational.net/german-government-wants-shale-gas/150/537/79666 »
« ▻http://www.northernenergy.co.uk/mainnews/fracking-supported-by-majority-of-uk »
« ►http://www.nodashforgas.org.uk/campinfo »
« ►http://www.nodashforgas.org.uk/uncategorized/breaking-operation-mums-and-grandmas-omg-occupy-proposed-drilling-s »
« ►http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/aug/18/fracking-protesters-occupy-blackpool-office-cuadrilla »
« ►http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/europe »
« ►http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-cameron-promises-fracking-tax-boost-for-councils-willing-to-app »
« ►http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/01/13/fracking-councils_n_4587143.html »
« ►http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2013/04/decc-energy-statistics,-march-2013 »
« ▻http://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/3284/British-public-split-on-nuclear-power.aspx »
« ▻http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/aug/25/labour-regulation-uk-fracking-industry »
« ▻http://corporate.exxonmobil.com/en/company/news-and-updates/speeches/shale-gas-american-success-story »
« ►https://www.chathamhouse.org/media/comment/view/187991 »
« ►http://www.bbc.com/news/business-26735000 »
« ►http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jun/06/shale-oil-boom-over-energy-revolution-blackouts »
« ▻http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/31/uk-shale-gas-fracking-cuadrilla »
« ►http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geoffreylean/100222841/drilling-set-back-regulator-caught-out-as-fracking-opponents-draw »
« ►https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/environment-agency »
« ►http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/06/fracking-trespass-law-changes-opposed-by-74-of-britons »
« ►http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/04/ban-fracking-from-national-parks-say-majority-of-uk-public »
« ►http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-25695813 »
« ▻http://www.wwf.gr/crisis-watch/issues/21-issue-21-december-2013/shale-gas-lobby-wins-war-against-strict-environmental-rules/28-shale-gas-lobby-wins-war-against-strict-environmental-rules »
« ►http://yougov.co.uk/news/2013/08/05/support-fracking-not-my-backyard »
« ►https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/economics-of-shale-gas »
« ►http://www.bgs.ac.uk/research/energy/shaleGas/home.html »
« ►https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/potential-greenhouse-gas-emissions-associated-with-shale-gas-production-and-use »
« ►http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/fracking-regs-tarnished-new-report_05062014 »
« ►http://www.foeeurope.org/fracking-brussels-240714 »

Ilana Solomon: “In terms of climate and #Energy policy, TTIP takes us exactly in the wrong direction”
▻http://multinationales.org/Ilana-Solomon-In-terms-of-climate

There’s been a lot of talk recently about the risks of the transatlantic #Trade_and_Investment partnership (TTIP) project for #Europe and its regulations. But the consequences on the other side of the Atlantic could be just as dramatic, particularly in the boost it could give to further large-scale shale oil and gas developments. Interview with Ilana Solomon, director of the Sierra Club’s “responsible trade” programme. How did the Sierra Club, one of the most long-standing environmental (...)

#Investigations

/ #Lobbying, #Fossil_fuels, Trade and Investment, Europe, #United_States, #energy, #trade_and_investment_agreements, #public_campaign, #shale_gas, #greenhouse_gas, #environmental_impact, energy, #climate_change, #regulations_and_norms, #influence, european (...)

#european_union
“▻http://www.bastamag.net/Transatlantic-trade-a-bust-for”

« If #Société_générale was genuine about its own social and environmental principles, there’s no way they would remain involved in the Alpha Coal project »
▻http://multinationales.org/If-Societe-Generale-was-genuine

Alpha Coal: it is the name of a megaproject in Queensland, #Australia. Alpha Coal would involve extracting millions of tonnes of coal, transporting them by rail over hundreds of kilometers and then exporting them to Asia through a new giant terminal at Abbot Point - in the middle of the Great Barrier Marine Park. Société Générale, one of France’s largest banks, is among the last backers of this project within the international financial community. Julien Vincent and Tony Brown, as representatives (...)

#Investigations

/ #Extractive_Industries, #Fossil_fuels, Société générale, Australia, #Finance_and_Banking, #Extractive_Industries, #biodiversity, #local_communities, #greenhouse_gas, #social_impact, #environmental_impact, #extractive_industries, #climate_change, socially responsible (...)

#socially_responsible_investment #commodities
“►http://www.marketforces.org.au”
“►http://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/business/2014/04/26/the-end-coal/1398434400”
“►http://www.ieefa.org/press-release-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-imported-coal-in-india-report-expos”

French banks blithely financing the fracking industry
▻http://multinationales.org/French-banks-blithely-financing

All, or nearly all, claim that they are sensitive to environmental concerns. This does not, however, stop French banks, most prominently Société Générale and BNP Paribas, from bankrolling natural gas fracking, an industry which has adverse effects on water resources, local communities, and the global climate. This is the conclusion of a study commissioned by Friends of the Earth Europe. The study details the source of investments and loans financing the oil and gas companies most active in (...)

#Investigations

/ #Energy, #Extractive_Industries, #Finance_and_Banking, #Poland, #France, #United_States, #Total, #Chevron, #Shell, #Talisman_Energy, #Marathon_Oil, #PGNiG, #PKN_Orlen, #Corporate_Social_Responsibility_and_Ethical_Investment, #Extractive_Industries, #Fossil_fuels, #shale_gas, (...)

#climate_change #environmental_impact #energy #socially_responsible_investment
“►https://www.flickr.com/photos/wcn247/7797057054/in/photostream

What is #Total doing in #Western_Sahara ?
▻http://multinationales.org/What-is-Total-doing-in-Western

The French company Total, along with other multinationals, has recently started oil and gas exploration off Western Saharan – a territory which has been under Moroccan occupation for almost forty years. These activities raise ethical issues about consultation with #local_communities and fair distribution of potential revenues. Saharawi activists have spoken up their concerns for years about the oil firm, denouncing its role in undermining the territory’s sovereignty. Total is also critised by (...)

#News

/ Total, #Extractive_Industries, #Morocco, Western Sahara, #Norway, #Extractive_Industries, #Fossil_fuels, #Corporate_Social_Responsibility_and_Ethical_Investment, local communities, #international_law, #human_rights, #ethics, #social_impact, socially responsible (...)

#socially_responsible_investment
« ▻http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/12/norwaywealthfund-ethics-idUSL6N0M826420140312 »
« ►http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/03/u-s-oil-firm-creates-tension-western-sahara »
« ▻http://www.wsrw.org/a106x2651 »
« ►http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2014/03/28/total-negocie-avec-lukoil-pour-exploiter-des-petroles-de-schiste-en-russie_4 »
« ►http://www.novethic.fr/novethic/isr_investissement_socialement_responsable,climat,le_fonds_norvegien_pourra »
« ►http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/02/07/total-westernsahara-idINL5N0LC35Y20140207 »
« ►http://www.yabiladi.com/articles/details/23060/exploration-petroliere-sahara-maroc-assure.html »
« ►http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/RegularSession/Session22/A-HRC-22-53-Add-2_en.pdf »
« ►http://bigmenthemovie.com »