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Europe’s Largest Bank to Halt Financing of New Oil and Gas Projects
Breitbart ^ | 12/16/2022 | KURT ZINDULKA

Posted on 12/16/2022 5:56:00 AM PST by DFG

Multinational investment bank HSBC announced that it will no longer finance new oil and gas projects in order to meet the green agenda goals of globalist elites.

The largest bank in Europe, which has nearly three trillion dollars in assets, has said that it will no longer finance new oil or gas fields to supposedly meet its commitments to achieving the UK government’s goal of reaching net zero carbon emissions by the year 2050.

According to a report from the BBC, HSBC came to the decision after “follow[ing] consultation with leading scientific and international bodies”. In 2020, the British bank already committed to investing £806 billion ($1 trillion) into supposedly green energy sources as well as committing to net zero.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: esg; gas; hsbc; oil

1 posted on 12/16/2022 5:56:00 AM PST by DFG
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To: DFG

When I see the oil and gas industry start to fight back, I’ll join them. Not before.


2 posted on 12/16/2022 5:59:03 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: DFG
Meanwhile Russia's gas lines are blown up, the wind in the UK isn't blowing so their windmills are making 3% of their normal power output, and Europe freezes.

But hey, they met their carbon targets...

3 posted on 12/16/2022 5:59:49 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: DFG

HSBC is actually Chinese, isn’t it?


4 posted on 12/16/2022 6:00:58 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan (CNN)
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To: DFG
Meanwhile, some recent headlines explaning why Europe is willing to do this...

Analysis: U.S. LNG exports to Europe on track to surpass Biden promise

U.S. pledges to ramp up supplies of natural gas to Britain as Biden and Sunak seek to cut off Russia

U.S. Coal Exports To Europe Up 46% By Weight, 184% By Value

And not just Europe. On this last one check out the bit about US exports to China...

U.S. Oil Refiners Are More Profitable Than Before The Pandemic

5 posted on 12/16/2022 6:05:43 AM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

ChiCom, anyway.


6 posted on 12/16/2022 6:06:25 AM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: DFG

Cut them off now and let them freeze, then starve.


7 posted on 12/16/2022 6:07:41 AM PST by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: DFG

“Europe’s Largest Bank to Halt Financing of New Oil and Gas Projects”

Take that, Putin!!!!


8 posted on 12/16/2022 6:08:48 AM PST by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Latvia: 14 degrees, brrrr!)
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To: Vision

See my reply #5.


9 posted on 12/16/2022 6:11:06 AM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: mewzilla

“Analysis: U.S. LNG exports to Europe on track to surpass Biden promise
U.S. pledges to ramp up supplies of natural gas to Britain as Biden and Sunak seek to cut off Russia
U.S. Coal Exports To Europe Up 46% By Weight, 184% By Value”

Well, it’s nice of the Europeans to IMPOVERISH themselves to ENRICH the United States, but they may want to consider that it’s only a short while before we find that our wonderful promises to them will also not receive funding.


10 posted on 12/16/2022 6:11:54 AM PST by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Latvia: 14 degrees, brrrr!)
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To: DFG
OK,fair enough.Legislation should be passed requiring the top management of HSBC to set their thermostats at 6C in winter and 32C in summer and they should be limited,by law,to transportation in any “vehicle” fueled by petrol or diesel to 40km a year. That includes cars,buses,trains and planes.
11 posted on 12/16/2022 6:27:40 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (No Doubt Now: Stolen Election)
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To: BobL

Mark Tucker of HSBC . Tucker is a member of the Board of Directors of Goldman Sachs. He served as the CEO and president of Asian focus insurer AIA Group from June 2009 to September 2017, where he successfully led the former Asian assurance arm of New York-based American International Group (AIG) for an IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in October 2010. It raised approximately HK$159.08 billion (US$20.51 billion), the world’s third largest IPO ever. Tucker was appointed to the board as a non-executive director and group chairman-designate of HSBC Holdings plc on 1 September 2017. He became non-executive group chairman on 1 October 2017, succeeding executive chairman Douglas Flint, who retired.
It’s all very incestuous, doncha know.


12 posted on 12/16/2022 6:30:55 AM PST by Bookshelf
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To: DFG

Europe is in a hole, millions can’t pay their utility bills, many will literally freeze in coming months and The Elite’s (bankers, politicians, legislators, billionaires, socialists, marxist’s, CEO’s of big corps, board members, media) just keep on digging their collective hole deeper.

To think thousands of our sons died for these creeps is nauseating.


13 posted on 12/16/2022 6:45:11 AM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: DFG

Literally, self destruction.


14 posted on 12/16/2022 6:58:09 AM PST by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: DFG

HSBC has also come under criticism for its close relationship with the world’s number one polluter, Communist China.

A better understanding of how Biden’s plan works Xi much happy China will get all the drilling permits off our shore before it’s over with.
As the democrats call it
THE NEW DEMOCRAT WORLD ORDER


15 posted on 12/16/2022 7:13:24 AM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: DFG

There used to be “industrial” oriented banks…like Chemical Bank and Manufacturers Bank. Even Bank of America was formed to provide banking for Italian fishermen in San Francisco ( originally called the Bank of Italy)


16 posted on 12/16/2022 7:52:15 AM PST by kaktuskid
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To: DFG

It makes no sense to finance something that may be declared illegal and thus decline to zero value.


17 posted on 12/16/2022 7:55:10 AM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: DFG

Maybe the bank should stop using oil based products.


18 posted on 12/16/2022 8:25:50 AM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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