Dirty energy projects ruin lives
I’M sure many readers are careful to conserve energy, and recycle all they can to save our planet from extreme climate chaos. I’m pleased that UK companies will soon be legally obliged to publish their carbon emissions. But although banks and pension funds
Banks and pension funds provide vast sums of money for fossil fuel extraction. Many of these dirty energy projects also ruin the lives of the local people who have to live with the effects of huge open-pit coal mines, or spills from oil drilling.
The government must make the banks come clean on the emissions from the fossil fuel projects they finance, so that they stop bankrolling climate change, driving us towards climate disaster. After all, it’s our money they’re spending.
Gill Haggie, Moorlands, Rotherham