ACCR LobbyWatch

Reverse climate anxiety: when a fossil fuel executive imagines a world that doesn’t rely on their deadly product. They’re panicking now.

Equinor are expanding their emissions footprint, but pretending to be a climate leader. How do they do it?

CCS serves one function for the fossil fuel industry: a perpetual false promise to justify worsening emissions. Can that last forever?

Recently, I wrote at LobbyWatch about how the gargantuan global oil and gas company Shell has been pivoting into an exhausting new way of…

AGL is playing musical chairs with its extremely polluting coal fleet. It isn’t enough.

How a global debate about net zero relates to an Australian fossil fuel mascot

Part 2, on ExxonMobil: what happens once their product is bought and used? On the massive impacts of the company’s core business

The phrase ‘shell game’ originates from a dazzling trick involving walnut shells and a pea. You put a pea under one of three, whizz them…

A deep dive into ExxonMobil, and their badly insufficient climate goals. Part 1, on their product marketing.

The oil and gas industry isn’t coping with the prospect of its own demise. It’s getting worse.

Part 2, on Australia’s gas industry efforts to attack quicker, deeper and lasting emissions cuts in homes and buildings

A new climate fight about gas in buildings is emerging, and America is currently at the forefront of this new climate battle.

Governments, corporations and lobbyists are still wrecking the hard-fought efforts to reduce emissions. It’s time to pay attention.

No, powering fossil fuel extraction with renewables is not progress. If anything, it might be a step backwards……

AGL have signed up to net zero by 2050. But will they take a dirty route to get there? Or will they shut down their biggest polluters…

Big power consumers wield big power in energy politics, but keep using it purely for self interest. That needs to change.

Carbon must be kept in the ground, but fossil fuel companies keep digging it up. That puts human safety and wellbeing at risk.

A new attempt to create climate delay in Australia is falling flat, because it’s rebranding old ideas

Can we set and forget climate action, and leave markets and governments to do what must be done? Of course not….

The latest batch of Queen’s Birthday Honours provide a neat summary of exactly where Australia is at in terms of fossil fuel futures

Some countries in the world get all the attention on climate. In America’s case, it is justified.

Glencore Chair Tony Hayward and director Peter Coates should be removed from the board

Net zero has potential to drive global change, but it comes with risks that need to be recognised. So I’m giving them names.

A looming vote for one of Australia’s biggest fossil fuel companies, in the midst of a pandemic and a reanimating climate debate