Wednesday 20 May: More than 160 shareholders have joined with Market Forces to demand Macquarie Group explains how increasing its fossil fuel lending, slashing its green energy investments and watering down its climate strategy is consistent with its commitment to the...
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Santos 2026 AGM
At the Santos 2026 annual general meeting, Traditional Owners and Indigenous Leaders travelled thousands of kilometres - from Papua New Guinea, Borroloola (Northern Territory), and Narrabri (NSW) - to challenge the company’s controversial gas expansion plans....
New analysis: Santos contributes to quadrupled gas prices for Australians
Wednesday 8 April: New Market Forces analysis reveals Australia’s second biggest oil and gas company, Santos, is contributing to nearly quadrupled gas prices on the East Coast of the country by prioritising the sale of its fossil fuels overseas, adding to cost of...
ASIC complaint against APA Group
Equity Generation Lawyers (EGL) and Market Forces have formally lodged a complaint with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) against APA Group - Australia's biggest gas pipeline operator - for misrepresenting the costs, scale and financial...
We’re all paying the price of banks and pension funds fuelling climate disasters
By Kyle Robertson, Head of Research, Market Forces. People across Asia and Australia are experiencing another scorching season of deadly and terrifying wildfires, heatwaves and floods. The world has just endured the three hottest years on record according to the World...
Scientists, Health Experts, Securityholders and NT communities put APA on notice over Beetaloo gas expansion
At APA Group’s 2025 Annual Meeting in Sydney, community leaders from the Northern Territory, climate scientists, doctors, and securityholders united to deliver one message the board could not ignore: You can’t claim climate action or Paris-alignment while building...
Macquarie closes third dirty fracking deal in less than a year
Macquarie is a critical financial backer of what could be Australia’s next biggest gas development in the heart of Australia’s Northern Territory, the Beetaloo Basin. This directly contradicts the bank’s green credentials and violates its commitments to the goals of...
Macquarie receives shareholder revolt on climate at 2025 AGM
2025 AGM result: 35.2% in favour of climate resolution The first ever climate-related shareholder resolution at Macquarie, filed by Market Forces, received significant support from shareholders with a huge 35% of shareholder votes in favour. The resolution called on...
New Analysis: Fracking Beetaloo equals over 235 years of polluting gas power
Thursday 3 July: New Market Forces analysis reveals fracking the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo Basin would produce more than nine times the entire gas demand forecast for Australia's National Electricity Market (NEM) for the next 25 years. The report - Pipeline to...
Empire Energy’s gas fracking fantasies
Will the Empire strike out? Empire Energy (which just changed its name to Beetaloo Energy Australia, but will be referred to as Empire Energy throughout this article) has come under fire over the viability of its dangerous fracking operations in the Northern...