Tag Archives: gas

Holding the Carbon Majors Accountable: Philippines Human Rights Commission investigates big polluters for their role in causing climate change

March 4, 2019accountability, carbon majors, cimate change, coal, fossil fuel, gas, ghg emissions, human rights, ocean acidification, oil, philippines, pollution, protestjfisch

By Graham Reeder On 22 September 2015, Greenpeace Southeast Asia (Philippines), thirteen other non-profit organizations, disaster survivors, and notable individuals, with the support of tens of thousands of Filipinos, filed a petition before the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR) against the world’s largest investor-owned carbon and cement producers, known as the ‘Carbon […]

Silent Concerns: The Health Effects and Legal Loopholes of Hydraulic Fracturing in Saskatchewan

July 10, 2018divest, fossil fuels, fracking, gas, oil, Saskatchewanchmcleod

By: Kristina Hedlund and Garance Malivel (Master of Environmental Studies, York University) Last October, a media report was released by a collective of scholars, students and journalists under the name The Price of Oil. The report revealed that, for years, the Saskatchewan government had been withholding information about dangerous levels of sour gases emitted by […]