US Green NGOs Turning Fire on UK Energy Firms As Lawfare Expands Under Starmer – Guido Fawkes

US Green NGOs Turning Fire on UK Energy Firms As Lawfare Expands Under Starmer

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Before the general election Guido repeatedly warned co-conspirators about the risk of London’s courts becoming a haven for international lefty lawfare under Labour. It’s the embattled UK energy industry which has most to fear from that development…

Now industry insiders say The Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) – a US-based NGO that has a history of launching legal action against corporations in the name of environmental protection – is increasingly active in the UK. Despite being based thousands of miles away in rural Massachusetts…

Various newspapers have reported this week’s court action by Rowaa Ahmar – who once tried to sue Simon Case, as Guido has noted – who claims she was unfairly dismissed by energy company Drax “after setting out concerns to executives around its claimed use of sustainable wood.” Who should turn up at the court hearing? None other than a senior executive of the PFPI…

An energy industry source told Guido: “the UK energy sector has enough of its own challenges to be dealing with without importing anti-energy campaigns from the US, run by groups backed by huge left wing donors”. There is more legal action in the offing against other UK-based energy firms…