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In a recent response to their own Climate Change Committee’s recommendation to exit the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), the government itself conceded “there is now no clear route for modernisation to progress”.(2)
It’s becoming increasingly clear that the longer we keep ourselves bound to the fossil fuel industry’s secret weapon, the more likely they are to use it against the climate action we need.
Three new ECT cases have just been lodged against Denmark, Germany and the EU, by a UK company over two oil refineries.(3) The conglomerate, Klesch Group, is ultimately incorporated in secrecy jurisdiction Malta and chaired by an infamous US vulture capitalist – and is apparently suing, in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis, over the windfall tax on energy companies. We make polluters pay, they demand a pay-out.
We need to get the UK out of the ECT as soon as possible, if not just to protect our own climate action, but to stop the UK harbouring the corporate pirates who can block it elsewhere and squirrel away their winnings in tax havens.
Please add your name to the petition now.
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