16/04 Behind closed doors, Kazakhstan challenges decades-old deal with $160 billion claim against Big Oil - ICIJ
-A secret ruling hints at the huge stakes in the arbitration case, which is expected to stretch until 2028.
- ICIJ22/11 The lost village: Western oil companies enriched Kazakhstan's power brokers — and left a community in ruins - ICIJ
-Ten years ago a mysterious health crisis ushered in the end of Berezovka. Former residents are still grappling with chronic illness and broken promises.
- ICIJ11/11 The just energy transition ignores labour outside the formal economy. So is it just?
-A just transition goes beyond ‘greening’ energy systems. It must also focus on the unrecognised labour – mostly of women – that makes green energy industries possible.
- TheConversation-Europe25/06 Mining needs more regulation, according to South Africans – survey
-The majority of South Africans want government to regulate the mining industry more tightly to reduce its negative impact on the environment.
- TheConversation-Europe29/03 Tax stability contracts and extractive industries, by Humberto Campodónico
-“These contracts guarantee the invariability of the different taxes to be paid by the investing companies (...). In Peru they are called law-contracts.”
- La República13/10 If You’re Worried About the Climate, Move Your Money
-How you consume matters to the planet. How you invest does too.
- The Atlantic