UK Energy Industry Attacked By Global Green Campaigners As Kemi Turns on Net Zero – Guido Fawkes

UK Energy Industry Attacked By Global Green Campaigners As Kemi Turns on Net Zero

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Gaia flagged an interesting development in London’s courts this week – the presence of the Partnership for Policy Integrity at an ongoing legal dispute with one of the UK’s biggest energy companies. Co-conspirators thought PFPI deserves a closer look. The US-based green lobby group was founded by a group of activists who wanted to fight proposals for three new biomass power plants in -checks notes – Massachusetts in 2008. So why are they turning up in the UK in 2025…

The group has major form for cross-border lawfare. It says it provides “science and legal support” so that “citizen groups, environmental organizations, and policymakers can better understand energy development.” But in practice that means helping launch multiple lawsuits including, for example, a lawsuit challenging elements of the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive. Other legal actions by the group and its wider consortium include a challenge to the EU’s Sustainable Finance Taxonomy to block more renewable power projects, an attempt to block logging permits in Estonia, challenges to subsidies in South Korea, and an OECD complaint against a British energy company – all proudly trumpeted on its own website. Must be costing a lot of time and money…

Of course, PFPI is just one NGO out of dozens who are launching court actions against the UK energy industry in London – a trend which is ticking up due to the liberalisation of lawfare under Starmer (as Guido has noted). Not that the role of these campaign groups has been properly picked up by the wider UK media – who are yet to make the connection between left wing NGOs and ongoing court action in London. As Kemi turns on Net Zero a good start would be to ban foreign green meddling in Britain’s energy security…