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24 February 2024
‘Fool’s bargain’
The secret payments behind a deal that brought a country to its knees
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7 December 2023
Trojan Horsepower
Formula 1 and the Saudi oil lobby: a tie-up between petrolheads and petrodollars is more than just an exercise in ‘soft power’
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29 November 2023
Scramble for Africa
An Emirati sheikh and an Italian fugitive are hoovering up land for an ambitious carbon offsetting project that critics say will make the climate crisis worse
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2 March 2023
Russian farming bank in sanctions row quietly funded oil deals
Documents reveal state agriculture lender’s key role in exporting Russian oil, contradicting Kremlin claims
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12 December 2022
Total’s Congo offsetting project ‘snatched our land’
Farmers say oil giant’s tree-planting scheme has barred them from their fields and threatens livelihoods.
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27 November 2022
Conservative mega-donor was ‘screen’ for Kremlin oil trades
Billionaire’s companies helped Rosneft trade with sanction-hit Venezuela and have continued to handle Russian oil since the outbreak of war in Ukraine
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16 November 2022
BP’s latest dirty secret? An oil terminal polluting the Red Sea for decades
Just across the water from the COP27 summit, a plant recently owned by BP is pumping contaminated water into the ocean—and has been doing so for decades
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31 October 2022
Mines, pipelines, oil rigs: What HSBC’s ‘sustainable finance’ really pays for
HSBC has committed to contribute up to $1 trillion in sustainable financing and investment by 2030. But billions of dollars being counted towards this target are in fact helping to fuel the climate crisis
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26 February 2022
BP under pressure over fuel for Russian military
BP may be profiting from Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine through its stake in Rosneft, a major fuel supplier to Russia’s military
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21 June 2021
BP is planning to drill for gas on edge of world’s largest cold-water coral reef
Oil giant’s plan to drill off west coast of Africa could raise the risk of biodiversity loss, further global heating and toxic fuel spills
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25 February 2021
Shell funded lobbying for Trump’s controversial fossil fuel finance rule
Rule finalised in Donald Trump’s last week as president aimed to prevent banking policies against lending to Arctic drilling and coal
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