January
Trump will only make China great
Readers’ letters on Donald Trump’s White House return, the ESG revolt, taxpayer-funded lunches, DEI initiatives, antisemitic attacks, and the return of Joe Aston.
September 2024
Santos cleared of coercion over Narrabri land access
The result of an inquiry into an Environmental Defenders Office complaint comes as NSW extended a Santos “authority to survey” for a pipeline for Narrabri gas.
August 2024
Woodside’s $30b Browse LNG project faces EPA knockback threat
The recommendation is not final and could be reversed after further negotiations, but a final rejection would be a blow to Labor’s long-term gas strategy.
July 2024
Santos wins court battle on EDO funding quest
The Federal Court also cleared the way for Santos to pursue the Environmental Defenders Office for costs in its failed case against the Barossa gas project.
June 2024
Santos demands lawyers pay costs in failed anti-gas-project case
The EDO’s conduct was “so far on the wrong side of the acceptable line” it should have to foot the company’s legal bill, Santos argues.
April 2024
HESTA sides with Woodside on Goyder’s future
But the outspoken superannuation fund, which has criticised the company for not doing enough on emissions reduction, will vote against its climate strategy.
Support for Santos chairman overwhelms environmental activist push
The company has been working on major LNG projects, making it a target for climate campaigners. But it has had limited investor backlash to those plans.
Santos pursues environmentalists that bankrolled Barossa gas protest
The gas producer wants four activist groups to hand over documents that could show who funded litigation against its offshore project north of Darwin.
December 2023
Big miner lauds WA reforms after premier cooks greenies
WA Premier Roger Cook has doubled down on comments that well-resourced environmental groups were working to split up Indigenous landowners.
November 2023
Directors urged to get advice as nature risk turns liability
A groundbreaking legal opinion says company directors who fail to consider the toll on nature could be in breach of their duty of care and diligence obligations.
October 2023
ESG funds are shrinking as managers, investors move on
For the first time, money managers in the United States closed more ESG funds than they opened. In Australia, flows are also slowing right down.
August 2023
Ken Henry has a dire warning on this forgotten issue
Ken Henry’s environmental warnings are arguably more dire, more imminent, more urgent, more troublesome and a great deal less hypothetical than the need to address a gradually shifting tax base.
‘What’s the obsession?’ - Cook denounces ‘extremist’ Woodside protest
The Western Australian Premier has denounced protesters who descended on the home of Woodside chief Meg O’Neill, describing them as “extremists”.
June 2023
Ex Unilever boss on doing the right thing (and making money)
As the CEO who turned Unilever green, the Dutchman received many more bouquets than brickbats – even from shareholders. Over lunch, he shares his secret sauce.
March 2023
GQG tips $2.8b into Adani stocks
Rajiv Jain has poured money into four Indian-listed Adani companies, taking a big bet that an activist short seller is wrong.
February 2023
Why this Sydney banker is fighting one of Indonesia’s richest families
Ex-Goldman Sachs analyst Jeremy Raper is trying to get authorities to intervene against a family’s grab for Stanmore Resources and its Australian coal mines.
December 2022
BlackRock urged to sack Larry Fink over ESG ‘failures’
Activist investor Bluebell Capital says the CEO undermines the investment giant’s credibility by continuing to invest in fossil fuels.
October 2022
Environmental Defenders’ Office funding ‘goes against Asian allies’
The funds are supporting activist litigation against the government’s own regulator and against ensuring energy supply to regional allies, a Credit Suisse analyst says.
June 2022
Plibersek has enviro ‘wrongdoers’ in her sights
Labor’s planned environmental watchdog will go after those who have failed to live up to their promises to care for land and biodiversity, says Ms Plibersek.
For ESG, with great power comes great responsibility
The ESG movement has entrenched itself in the global capital markets. Now the real work begins for its proponents.