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renewables

A demonstration outside BP's HQ
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Campaigners demonstrate outside BP’s HQ over firm’s rollback on renewables

Chris Jarvis
27 February, 2025

‘Big Oil is Killing Us’

Shell lorry

Fossil fuel providers given £20bn more in government funding than renewables since 2015

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
12 March, 2023

“This reckless government is backing the wrong horse by betting on fossil fuels in a climate and energy crisis. These figures lay bare the stranglehold that the fossil fuel industry continues to have over government decision making – and taxpayer’s money.”

Stop fracking

EXCLUSIVE: Majority of public back investment in renewables not fracking, poll finds

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 May, 2022

Almost 70% of those asked support investment in green energy, compared to just 17% who back extraction of shale gas.

Right-Wing Watch

Right Wing Watch newsletter: The Frackers Return

John Lubbock
14 March, 2022

As the energy security crisis deepened, Nigel Farage took to his podcast to promote his new campaign for a referendum on Net Zero targets.

Unite and GMB workers at Harland & Wolff shipyard

Iconic Belfast shipyard and 79 jobs saved after nine-week sit-in

Fleur Doidge
1 October, 2019

GMB and Unite workers on site at Harland and Wolff in Belfast, which now looks to have a bright future after sale announcement.

How tackling climate change could actually rescue our economy

Molly Scott Cato
13 September, 2018

Taking action to save our climate could yield yield huge economic gains. But the forces of business-as-usual are stacked against us.

The UK’s desperate fossil fuels industry is lashing out at human rights – but we won’t let them win

Keith Taylor
20 March, 2018

Two decisive defeats in the past week alone have put oil and gas companies on the back foot.

Carbon emissions are on the up. It’s time to stop all state support to the fossil fuel industry

Jake Woodier
14 November, 2017

It’s too late for natural gas and shale gas to replace more polluting coal and oil — we need renewables now.

Renewables are the future, whatever Donald Trump says

Simon Bullock
28 November, 2016

Fossil fuels are out of favour as climate change struggles bear fruit

The UK will ratify the Paris agreement by the end of the year – but what took so long?

Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
21 September, 2016

We must seriously question this government’s commitment to climate action

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