While NAB staff were no doubt celebrating in their five-star green building with organic carrot juice and celery sticks, the blokes in the project finance team were signing off on a loan to help refurbish a 40-year-old polluting monstrosity.
Articles by John Hepburn 
About John Hepburn
John worked as a mechanical engineer making components for the coal, oil and nuclear industries before becoming an environmental activist in the mid 1990’s. He co-founded a successful recycling business in Brisbane before moving to Sydney to work with Greenpeace. He has a strong interest in the politics of technology and in social movement strategy, and, like many, is extremely concerned about climate change. He works part-time as a senior campaigner with the Greenpeace Australia Pacific climate change campaign.
ANZ needs lessons in reputation management 101
Two weeks after it won the Dow Jones Sustainability Index award for the being the world’s most sustainable bank, ANZ lent $150 million for the refurbishment of one of the most polluting coal plants in Australia.
Are the banks starting to walk away from coal?
On Friday it was revealed that for the first time, a bank had insisted on a confidentiality clause as part of a finance deal for a coal power station — so that its name could not be revealed for fear of reputational damage.
Qld budget: gov should be hauled over the coals for corporate welfare
The Queensland and New South Wales state Budgets yesterday had nothing particularly in terms of climate change.
Yes bwana: how Australia called the shots at small islands forum
Here is the analysis of the PIF from Shirley Atatagi - climate political advisor for Greenpeace in the Pacific.
