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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJP Morgan Chase Will Halt Financing of Arctic Oil, Gas Drilling, and Coal Plants
In a major win for environmental organizations and Indigenous groups, JPMorgan Chase on Tuesday announced that it will not finance oil and gas extraction in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, nor will it continue financing many coal-related enterprises, including thermal coal mines and coal-fired power plants across the world. The announcement comes after a years-long pressure campaign by environmentalists and Indigenous peoples, who together have called on the giant bankwhich is by far the leading US investor in fossil fuelsto move away from projects that threaten the climate.
JPMorgan Chase executives made the announcement at the banks annual Investor Day, during which they promised to stop investing in and providing services to companies that derive the majority of their revenues from the extraction of coal by 2024, as well as to not provide financing to offshore and onshore oil and gas extraction in the Arctic. JPMorgan Chase CFO Jennifer Piepszak also announced that the bank is committing $200 billion in financing across three focus areas: supporting climate action, clean water, and waste management; increasing access to housing, education, and health care; and advancing infrastructure, innovation, and growth.
Environmental activists and Indigenous leaders who have been staging protests against Chase applauded the announcement, which comes just two months after another leading US bankGoldman Sachsmade a similar commitment not to finance oil drilling in the Arctic.
It was emotional when Goldman Sachs, and now JPMorgan Chase, made their announcement, Bernadette Demientieff, executive director of the Gwichin Steering Committee, told Sierra. Im really grateful that somebody who made that decision listened, and thank Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase for listening to the people and the Indigenous voices of the area. We just hope that more [banks] follow suit and more banks and oil and gas companies understand that Indigenous peoples in this country are not just going to allow you to come into our homeland and do whatever you want.
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/jp-morgan-chase-will-halt-financing-arctic-oil-gas-drilling?utm_source=currents&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
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JP Morgan Chase Will Halt Financing of Arctic Oil, Gas Drilling, and Coal Plants (Original Post)
Bayard
Feb 2020
OP
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,983 posts)1. K & R
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)2. Whoopie,we
ceded the Arctic Oil and Gas exploration three years ago plus to Rosneft and Gasprom.
Duppers
(28,120 posts)3. OMG! YES!! Yes, yes!! 👍 👍
This is huge!! I'm so happy.
Dang! 💃 💃
Activism works!
My donations were well spent!
Thank you for posting, Bayard!!
🙏
Amishman
(5,557 posts)4. I'm sure it is really because shale oil and gas has made such projects not profitable
Funny they only call out high cost operations