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Material Risks: How public accountability is slowing tar sands development (pdf)

The changing regional power environment is likely to shift the outlook for pension funds and other institutional investors with holdings in private equity firms by lowering annual returns, raising investment risks, or both.

The Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is one of the most talked about North American energy and political issues of the era. Once thought inevitable, the project and Canada’s plan to expand tar sands production have been confronted by an…

Stakeholders are critical of the realistic scale of Indonesia's biomass cofiring bet in comparison to the bold targets proposed by MEMR.

Challenging economics, rising competition undercutting region's coal-fired power plants

Efforts by the oil and gas industry to develop Vaca Muerta, Argentina’s vast shale reserves in northern Patagonia, have slowed and in many instances, come to a halt, as the industry awaits direction from the country’s incoming president. …

‘Carbon capture’ has increasingly become a magic word for many investors and regulators. Everyone hopes that CCUS can be commercially viable, but stay wary of the fine print.

Low-capacity auction payments, coupled with the recent sharp run-up in interest rates, have worsened the economic outlook for new PJM projects and made merchant projects more economically risky.

The Vaca Muerta oil and gas project, which promises to double oil and gas production over the next six years in Argentina, is facing such strong headwinds from current fiscal, market, political and environmental forces that “the plan is…

Three major fossil fuel-based industries—coal, liquefied natural gas, and plastics—were becoming less financially attractive even before the global coronavirus pandemic, according to experts who spoke during the second week of IEEFA’s 2020…