Richard Gardiner is a senior campaigner working on corporate accountability with Global Witness.
Talk of a green, equitable recovery from the pandemic is all-consuming. While Joe Biden in the U.S. is also promising to ‘build back better’, 2021 presents a chance for the EU to do just that with a new law, one that could fundamentally reshape the often-toxic relationship between powerful, unaccountable corporations and people and our planet.
Our consumption culture often has impacts beyond our immediate horizons. In the early hours of 24 February, 2016, Colombian soldiers gathered outside the small village of Roche, on the Guajira Peninsula, and set up a road block.
NGOs file complaint before OECD, demand closure of Cerrejón coal mine in Colombia
Cerrejón operation in Colombia.
(Image courtesy of Cerrejón).
A coalition of human rights and environmental NGOs led by the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) are demanding before the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development the closure of the Cerrejón coal project in Colombia, which is owned by Anglo American (LON: AAL), BHP (ASX, LON, NYSE: BHP) and Glencore (LON: GLEN).
This week, the activists filed simultaneous complaints before the OECD National Contact Points in Australia, Ireland, Switzerland and the UK, alleging “serious human rights abuses and devastating environmental pollution” at Cerrejón.
January 13, 2021, by Adnan Durakovic
Ireland’s Electricity Supply Board (ESB) has issued a contract notice for a qualification system for offshore wind resource and metocean measurement campaigns on sites off the coast of Ireland and the UK.
The wind measurement and metocean data will be utilized to enable offshore structures to be designed against both extreme and fatigue loading conditions as observed on site; enable installation and O&M contractors to plan onsite operations; and inform on turbine and installation vessel selection.
ESB intends to use the Irish Government Procurement portal for this competition. Access to this portal is free of charge.
Irish ESB to add 100 MWh of Fluence storage to its portfolio
State-owned utility ESB is working with energy storage solution company Fluence and EPC service providers Powercomm Group and Kirby Group on its first battery projects in Ireland.Irish state-owned utility Electricity Supply Board (ESB) has kicked off the year by signing a deal over two storage projects with a combined capacity of nearly 100 MWh. With the agreement, the utility enters the club of Irish utility-scale battery owners for the first time. The company said it would further expand its storage project portfolio in the future. Ireland, which features significant wind capacity, has become .