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"Shocking and sad": how corporations use investment agreements to block decarbonisation in the Global South

Dec 11, 2024 | landclimate.org | Camille Corcoran

In May this year, the European Union announced that it would withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty, an international investment agreement established in the wake of the Cold War with the purpose of “strengthening energy cooperation” amongst its signatories.
Drax-owned facilities broke environmental rules more than 11,000 times in the US

Nov 15, 2024 | landclimate.org | Camille Corcoran

This investigation by Land and Climate Review was first published in The Times. Read their coverage here. Wood pellet mills owned by UK energy giant Drax have violated environmental regulations 11,378 times in the US since 2014, an investigation by Land and Climate Review has found.
“Appalling”: Drax-owned facilities broke environmental laws more than 11,000 times in the US

Nov 4, 2024 | landclimate.org | Camille Corcoran

This investigation by Land and Climate Review was first published in The Times. Read their coverage here. Wood pellet mills owned by UK energy giant Drax have violated environmental regulations 11,378 times in the US since 2014, an investigation by Land and Climate Review has found.
Drax fined again over pollution: "I'm afraid to go outside," say residents

Sep 30, 2024 | landclimate.org | Camille Corcoran |Bertie Harrison-Broninski

This two part series is published in collaboration with The Intercept. Read part two, which focuses on Drax’s planned operations on the West Coast, by clicking here. All Sheila Mae Dobbins wants is an apology.
What are Drax's plans on the West Coast?

Sep 30, 2024 | landclimate.org | Camille Corcoran |Bertie Harrison-Broninski

This is the second article in a series produced in collaboration with The Intercept. Read part one, about Drax’s operations in the Southeast US, by clicking here. Since 2022, Drax Group has had its sights fixed on a new pellet mill, in the small northwestern city of Longview, nestled on the Columbia river in Washington state, some 50 miles north of Portland, Oregon.
Why was organic policy blamed for Sri Lanka's financial crisis?

Jun 21, 2024 | landclimate.org | Bertie Harrison-Broninski

Gunadasa* doesn’t follow politics, so the 72 year old farmer learned the news in May 2021 at a local meeting run by the Department for Agrarian Development. He would no longer receive the subsidised fertiliser he and his wife Kusuma* had long used to grow paddy, sesame, corn, and beans at their small farm in Anuradhapura District. Neither, in fact, would any other farmer in Sri Lanka.
The curious case of emissions dumping down under

Jun 18, 2024 | landclimate.org | Camille Corcoran

Last month, the premier of Queensland, Steven Miles, announced that his government would be banning carbon capture and storage (CCS) in the Queensland portion of the Great Artesian Basin, one of the largest and deepest underground freshwater resources in the world.
The Cargill Playbook: how corn subsidies created America's largest private company

Jun 17, 2024 | landclimate.org | Austin Frerick

“Agriculture policy does not protect the person you or I think of as a farmer,” Tom Buis of the National Farmers Union told the New York Times in 1999. “It benefits the largest operations and the processors.
Climate crisis is exposing hard truths about commercial forestry

May 31, 2024 | landclimate.org | Peter Wohlleben

Buy here from Harper Collins. (£10.99 paperback / £6.99 ebook) Forestry as it has been traditionally practiced is facing massive problems. Spruce and pine plantations are dying, and the public is beginning to notice that this is not all due to climate change.
Drax’s pellet mills violated environmental law 189 times in Canada

May 14, 2024 | landclimate.org | Jaysim Hanspal |Bertie Harrison-Broninski

Canadian wood pellet mills have illegally polluted rivers and lakes, destroyed wetlands, and breached emissions limits, while exporting biomass fuel to countries including the UK and Japan. An investigation by Land and Climate Review, as reported by BBC Newsnight, has found years of repeated lawbreaking at facilities that export wood to burn in the UK’s largest power station, Drax.