Entries by Keith Schneider

World Bank, Despite Promises, Finances Big Coal and Industrial Projects That Threaten Water, Communities

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Investigation finds International Finance Corporation invests big in industrial development banks. By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue In 2013, GNP Power, a Philippine energy developer, began generating power from its Mariveles coal-fired electrical generating station on the Bataan Peninsula about 173 kilometers (107 miles) south of Manila, the capital. Philippine authorities and company executives hailed the […]

Halt to Dakota Pipeline Is Part of International Resistance to Water Threats

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At frontlines, fossil fuel transport and production infrastructure opposed worldwide.

Circle of Blue’s Brett Walton Honored By Society of Environmental Journalists

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Keith SchneiderCircle of Blue’s senior editor and chief correspondent based in Traverse City, Michigan. He has reported on the contest for energy, food, and water in the era of climate change from six continents. Contact Keith Schneider http:/Circleofblue.org/about/staff/Keith

Gina Lopez, a “Crusader,” Sets Philippines Water, Mining Safety on Unexpected New Course

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New environment secretary vows to enforce rule of law. By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue Before Regina Lopez agreed in June to serve as the secretary of the Philippines Department of Environment and Natural Resources, her standing as one of the Pacific island nation’s determined environmental activists was unchallenged. As the top executive of the […]

Big Banks Finance Water-Damaging, Climate-Warming Energy Projects

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Despite commitment to reduce national emissions, development banks spend $US billions on coal-fired power plants.

Drought A Factor in Duke Energy South America Electric Sale

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Low water, less hydropower revenue prompt U.S. utility to seek a buyer of Latin America power plants.

Venezuela Drought Aggravates Instability

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Shortages of power, food, supplies wrack country. By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue Though June is generally the start of the rainy season in Venezuela, much of the country remains drier than normal, a moisture deficit that affects the country’s capacity to generate electricity and is aggravating a severe economic recession that is prompting looting, […]

India’s Severe Drought Causing Havoc

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Water scarcity forces millions of people off of farms and into teeming cities. By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue On Monday, as it’s been for weeks now, hundreds of farmers from mountainous Bundelkhand, a drought-ravaged region of north central India, climbed down from the Mahakaushal Express and headed for the highway underpasses near Delhi’s Nizamuddin […]