The Royal Bank of Scotland Group

Date Company Accusation City / Area / Country Source Tags Media
19/04/2011The Royal Bank of Scotland GroupRBS accused of investing £1.3 billion - following a £5.6 billion prior investment - in environmentally damaging oil project of tar sands in Canada, also devastating ancestral lands of First Nation tribes.  Alberta, CanadaThe Guardian, Financial TimesClimate Change, Negligence, Pollution
16/11/2009The Royal Bank of Scotland GroupRBS lending to environmentally damaging project of tar sands which pollutes Canadian aboriginals' land sparks protest.Western CanadaFinancial TimesPollution
23/08/2009
(Project funded by The Royal Bank of Scotland Group)
Cree aboriginals protest over tar sand project - destroying ancient boreal forest; spreading open-pit mining across local tribes' territories; contaminating their food and water with toxins; producing heavy CO2 emissions; disrupting local wildlife and threatening their way of life.Alberta, CanadaThe GuardianClimate Change, Habitat Extinction, Pollution
12/03/2007The Royal Bank of Scotland GroupRBS criticized by environmental groups over financing heavily on carbon emitting oil & gas projects furthering climate change.PLATFORM, Bank rack, Friends of the Earth, nef, people & planet Climate Change