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Binkie The Clown

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Sat May 2, 2015, 03:24 PM May 2015

HSBC Advises Clients Against Fossil Fuel Investment

Newsweek reported on April 21 that HSBC wrote in a private note to its clients that there is an increasing risk that fossil fuel companies will become “economically non-viable.” As a result, HSBC advised its clients to divest from fossil fuels because they may be too risky. If investors fail to get out of fossil fuels, the bank says, they “may one day be seen to be late movers, on ‘the wrong side of history.’” As the divestment campaign builds up steam, major oil and gas companies are starting to see the writing on the wall.


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The age of fossil fuels: This too shall pass.


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HSBC Advises Clients Against Fossil Fuel Investment (Original Post) Binkie The Clown May 2015 OP
OMG, facts that have only been obvious for about 50 years Jackpine Radical May 2015 #1
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