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The Future of Exxon and the Permian’s Flaring Crisis
DeSmogBlog
MARCH 11, 2020
Read time: 8 mins On March 5, there was a sense of drama and tension unlike in years past as ExxonMobil’s top executives gathered for their annual Investor Day presentation, a highly anticipated event where the oil major lays out its plans for the next few years in an effort to woo investors.
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Analysis: Fossil Fuel Tax Programs to Cut Emissions Lead to Lots of Industry Profit, Little Climate Action
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 4, 2021
Read time: 12 mins The fossil fuel industry and its investors have financially benefited from tax policies and subsidies designed to reduce the emissions from oil, gas, and coal — sometimes without taking the action required to tackle climate change.
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The North American Natural Gas Industry Is Struggling—Here's Why
DeSmogBlog
MARCH 11, 2020
Read time: 7 mins Last year, the financial prospects for the North American natural gas market were looking grim , as nervous investors started pulling back and producers announced big spending cuts and layoffs. Tags: LNG Exports natural gas Chesapeake Energy (NYSE:CHK) Tellurian Warren Buffett
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To Many's Dismay, Permian Produces More Gas and Condensate Instead of Oil and Profits
DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
Read time: 8 mins As oil prices plummet, oil bankruptcies mount , and investors shun the shale industry, America’s top oil field — the Permian shale that straddles Texas and New Mexico — faces many new challenges that make profits appear more elusive than ever for the financially failing shale oil industry.
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Will the Fracking Revolution Peak Before Ever Making Money?
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 3, 2019
That should be a truly frightening prospect for investors in American fracking operations, but one which DeSmog has long been warning of. Tags: fracking fracking finances Read time: 7 mins This week, the Wall Street Journal highlighted that the U.S.
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Ford’s surprise news: it’s developing a new platform for low-priced EVs
Charged
FEBRUARY 10, 2024
We made a bet in silence two years ago,” Farley told investors during the company’s recent earnings call, Somewhere in the secret sanctums of Dearborn, a “super-talented skunkworks team” that includes “some of the best EV engineers in the world” has been operating “outside of the Ford mothership.”
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Carbon Capture Will Require Large Public Subsidies to Support Coal and Gas Power
DeSmogBlog
JUNE 15, 2020
Tags: carbon capture CCUS Center for Global Energy Policy (CGEP) cost of renewable energy
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Bankers and Investors Finding Fracking Industry's Underlying Models Prove Overly Optimistic
DeSmogBlog
JULY 17, 2020
Tags: reserves based lending fracking finance Bankruptcy Warren Buffett Harold Hamm Occidental Petroleum Alta Mesa Read time: 15 mins Warren Buffet has a famous quote about investing: “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.” .
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Is Natural Gas the New Coal?
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 27, 2019
Oil and gas companies have been feeling mounting pressure, as signs emerge that oil is losing favor, both with the public amid climate concerns and with some investors. Tags: methane natural gas fracking finances UN Climate Summit ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM)
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Global Push for LNG Creates 'Gas Bubble' That Could Bust
DeSmogBlog
JULY 13, 2020
While far from British Columbia, the actions spooked investors in Energie Saguenay LNG. Tags: LNG Wet'suwet'en Coastal GasLink pipeline US LNG Exports American Petroleum Institute Without Berkshire Hathaway’s promised $4 billion investment, the project has stalled.
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As New York Takes Exxon to Court, Big Oil’s Strategy Against Climate Lawsuits Is Slowly Unveiled
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 8, 2019
Last week, in a historic first, the former CEO of a major oil company took the witness stand in a New York City courtroom and spent four hours defending his company against charges that it misled investors about the potential impact of global warming on its viability as a business. .
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Replacing Coal with Renewables Could Save Energy Customers $8 Billion a Year, Financial Analysts Find
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 14, 2020
Analysts at Morgan Stanley and Moody’s Investors Service expect that more electric utilities will accelerate their transition away from coal, with major financial benefits for both ratepayers and shareholders. Read time: 6 mins By Joe Smyth, Energy and Policy Institute. This was originally posted on the Energy and Policy Institute.
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DC Is the Latest to Sue Exxon and Big Oil for Climate Disinformation Campaigns
DeSmogBlog
JUNE 25, 2020
is suing the four largest investor-owned oil and gas companies — BP , Chevron, ExxonMobil , and Shell — for allegedly misleading consumers about climate change, including historically undermining climate science and even now using deceptive advertising about the companies’ role in leading solutions to the climate crisis.
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Since Paris Agreement, Global Financial Firms Have Sunk $745 Billion into New Coal Plant Development
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 10, 2019
These groups clarify underwriting as the process of banks raising “investment capital for companies by issuing bonds or shares on their behalf and selling them to investors.”. Tags: Paris Agreement blackrock Vanguard Citigroup JPMorgan Chase Coal Power Generation Finance
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Bleak Financial Outlook for US Fracking Industry
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 8, 2019
Over a year later, the fracking industry is having to reckon with many of the issues DeSmog highlighted, in addition to one new issue — investors are finally giving up on the industry. Tags: fracking fracking finance shale Pioneer Natural Resources Scott Sheffield Harold Hamm
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Will the Public End up Paying to Clean up the Fracking Boom?
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 18, 2019
shale firms appear unable to pay back investors for the money borrowed to fuel the last decade of the fracking boom. Tags: abandoned oil wells orphan wells Western Organization of Resource Councils North Dakota pennsylvania Read time: 8 mins Increasingly, U.S.
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Bollinger Motors explores a new market with the DELIVER-E delivery van concept
Charged
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
There were no former Tesla executives and no deep-pocketed Chinese investors, and the strategy was not to build a luxury sedan, but rather a rough-and-ready electric work truck. When Robert Bollinger founded Bollinger Motors in 2015, he did not follow the typical EV startup formula.
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DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
Now, fossil fuel companies are reckoning with a different communications challenge: convincing their investors that the future of oil and gas companies is bright … or at least bright enough. Tags: Covering Climate Now 2019 fracking advertising spin ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) bp
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A tale of two gigafactories…
Terra Infirma
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
As the name suggests, an EV battery gigafactory is truly colossal with a price tag to match – we’re talking billions rather than millions. ” Would an investor or investors risk hundreds of millions or billions on that prospectus? Give us money, lots of it.”
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GM teases electric Chevy Equinox and Blazer
Charged
OCTOBER 22, 2021
GM has promised to launch 30 new EV models by 2025, and the automaker teased a couple of these at the recent From Automaker to Platform Innovator event for investors. A $30k price tag, just about 5 grand above the current MSRP of the legacy Equinox, would be an eye-opener. “We
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Green Dividend Stocks: The Comfort Food of Investing in a Sustainable Future
Hydrogen Fuel News
MARCH 5, 2024
Hey there, eco-minded investors! But let’s chit-chat about something that often tags along with investing: dividends. Some of the more solid green companies are sharing the love with their investors through dividends. Understanding Dividend Stocks in the Green Sector What’s the Deal with Dividends in Green Stocks?
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How Dominion Energy Plans to Launch an Offshore Wind Empire
GreenTechMedia
MAY 20, 2020
With two turbines, the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind pilot is tiny; and with a price tag of $300 million, it’s very expensive for a generation facility of its size. In a big step for the market, Dominion recently confirmed plans to join a consortium of investors that will build the first U.S. offshore wind market.
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Fossil Fuel Ad Campaigns Emphasize 'Positives' After Climate Science Denial PR Lands Industry in Hot Seat
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
The subject of these investigations isn’t the direct harm from the fossil fuel industry’s actions, it’s the ways that companies communicated about their actions, and how that misled investors or the public. Tags: ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) #ExxonKnew climate science denial American Petroleum Institute Covering Climate Now 2019
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Managing risk, achieving impact: Linking sovereign debt with climate and nature targets
Business Green
MAY 23, 2021
In this context, policy makers, the private sector, and investors are asking whether the solutions to these challenges can be linked. Investors know that through these instruments, they can drive risk mitigation and management and are, hence, willing to accept a lower interest rate. Reducing risk and raising targets.
New City Projects to be Sustainable
Climate 4.0
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
This project is currently budgeted at $32 billion, with 80% of it coming from private investors, according to Widodo. Prospective investors have been rumored from everywhere from the UK to the Middle East to Japan; China has not emerged as an investor for this project as of yet.
Oil Lobby’s Carbon Capture Solution Hasn’t Consulted Local Nation, Chief Says
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Major investors are also beginning to express their concerns about hydrogen; UK hedge fund Argonaut’s chief investment officer Barry Norris publicly announced he’s shorting hydrogen stocks, claiming hydrogen is a “ complete waste of time.” billion (CAD) price tag by 2030 to fund the project. Pathways estimates a $16.5
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The UK's net zero target is under threat because there's no plan to pay for it
Business Green
MAY 26, 2022
Research by Inside Housing has put a price tag of £104bn on decarbonising all the UK's homes, with an upper estimate of £250bn - equivalent to just under a quarter of the government's total projected spending for 2022-23.
How the climate crisis will crash the economy
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
It placed the price tag at up to 10.5 For example: Two years ago, the Fourth National Climate Assessment noted that continued warming “is expected to cause substantial net damage to the U.S. economy throughout this century, especially in the absence of increased adaptation efforts.” percent of GDP by 2100.
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How Europe could become a major hub for textile recycling
Business Green
JULY 29, 2022
Investors need to support new ways of making textiles. Those factors are regulation, consumer demand and environmental awareness among investors (on the brand and solution sides of the textile waste equation) and shareholders (on the brand side). Textile manufacturers need to invest in equipment capable of working with recycled fibre.
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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet
AGreenLiving
MARCH 4, 2021
Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet C.J. Until very recently, investor demands regarding environmental impact largely have focused on the climate crisis and greenhouse gas emissions. Clouse Thu, 03/04/2021 – 02:11 Reprinted from GreenFin Weekly, a free weekly newsletter. Subscribe here.
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Government Defends Praising Tar Sands Industry Figures as COP26 ‘Climate Champions’
DeSmogBlog
MAY 10, 2021
A UK-Canada event last week praised 26 “exceptional individuals actively working to move Canada to net-zero emissions”, five of whom work for companies and investors involved in the fossil fuel industry, including the Canadian oil sands. TAG), the largest natural gas transporter in Brazil.
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L&Q launches pioneering £300m sustainability-linked bond
Business Green
JANUARY 14, 2022
Housing association L&Q has successfully issued a £300m sustainability-linked bond, pledging to investors it will achieve a string of environmental improvements across its residential housing stock over the coming years.
Saudi Arabia’s Plan to Rule the $700 Billion Hydrogen Market from a Marine Perspective
Mr. Sustainability
MARCH 17, 2021
His enthusiasm for technologies such as electric vehicles and digital networks might not have been matched by Innogy’s investors, but it is by the backers of Neom. But while Neom’s $500 billion price tag prompts questions about whether it will go ahead exactly as planned, the hydrogen effort doesn’t depend on the megacity’s overall success.
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The Seven Sins of Greenwashing
Green Business Bureau
DECEMBER 16, 2021
Yet, despite the short-term financial gains, greenwashing is risky behavior that’s frowned upon by investors, consumers, and regulators. Investors are more aware of greenwashing and better able to avoid guilty companies. Why is greenwashing a problem? “As A tarnished brand reputation and negative consumer perspectives.
The great EV armament has begun
Business Green
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Nissan's strategy also included a raft of plans to scale up battery innovation, production, supply chains, and even recycling worldwide in order to drive down manufacturing costs, and ultimately push down the price tags for consumers. To deliver its new targets, Nissan said it would need to hire 3,000 more staff.
Overnight Briefing - The great EV armament has begun
Business Green
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Nissan's strategy also included a raft of plans to scale up battery innovation, production, supply chains, and even recycling worldwide in order to drive down manufacturing costs, and ultimately push down the price tags for consumers. To deliver its new targets, Nissan said it would need to hire 3,000 more staff.
California: We Need 1GW of New Long-Duration Energy Storage by 2026
GreenTechMedia
APRIL 7, 2020
That decision lets the technologists, entrepreneurs and investors in the long-duration space point to a substantial market that actually wants what they’re making. If pumped hydro, with its billion-dollar price tag, continues to deter customers, it will leave an opening for the crop of newcomers.
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Media Brief: Canada’s Clean Electricity Regulations
Clean Energy Canada
AUGUST 8, 2023
The effects of the climate crisis could cost Canadians some $700 per year by 2025—a price tag that is expected to double or triple by 2050. However, last week the Alberta government surprised investors and companies by announcing a seven-month moratorium on new projects. Alberta has seen nearly $4.7
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Saudi Arabia’s Plan to Rule the $700 Billion Hydrogen Market from a Marine Perspective
Mr. Sustainability
MARCH 17, 2021
His enthusiasm for technologies such as electric vehicles and digital networks might not have been matched by Innogy’s investors, but it is by the backers of Neom. But while Neom’s $500 billion price tag prompts questions about whether it will go ahead exactly as planned, the hydrogen effort doesn’t depend on the megacity’s overall success.
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'Green product scarcity' is looming: How can businesses remove the cleantech bottleneck?
Business Green
JANUARY 11, 2023
The problem now facing policymakers, investors, and technology developers therefore - albeit a welcome one, given it demonstrates the shift from concept towards real-world action - has transformed from an innovation challenge into a question of pace and scale. But there is another side to the coin.
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The Seven Sins of Greenwashing
Green Business Bureau
DECEMBER 16, 2021
Yet, despite the short-term financial gains, greenwashing is risky behavior that’s frowned upon by investors, consumers, and regulators. Investors are more aware of greenwashing and better able to avoid guilty companies. Why is greenwashing a problem? “As A tarnished brand reputation and negative consumer perspectives.
'Giant opportunity': Why achieving a net zero emission supply chain could be cheaper than you think
Business Green
JANUARY 21, 2021
As more and more companies, investors, and organisations have announced net zero targets over the past couple of years, it has led to a hierarchy of sorts between different decarbonisation methodologies and levels of ambition.
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