ING (an abbreviation
of Internationale Nederlanden Groep) is a Netherlands based international financial services company and
one of the world’s largest savings banks. It is active in banking, investments, life insurance and retirement services. Its internet banking outfit ING direct is active in the US market.
ownership
listed on NYSE Euronext
headquarters
ING House, P.O. Box 810
1000 AV Amsterdam
Netherlands
Early in 2010, BankTrack reviewed the publicly available sector and issue policies of ING to assess how these policies dealt with social and environmental issues and met international best practice for a particular sector or issue. Go here for the report.
headquarters
ING House, P.O. Box 810
1000 AV Amsterdam
Netherlands
In the Canadian Boreal forest just downstream of the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains are the Canadian tar sands. The region contains some 2 trillion barrels of oil,…
HidroAysén - owned by European company Endesa and Chilean company Colbun - plans to dam two of Chile's most powerful and pristine rivers, the Baker and Pascua Rivers.…
An offshore oil project in the north Caspian Sea, Kashagan is part of the North Caspian Sea Production Sharing Agreement (PSA), a 40-year contract that was signed in 1997…
The building of Slovakia's Mochovce 3 and 4 nuclear reactors is the longest running nuclear construction project anywhere in Europe. The reactors were designed by the Soviet…
The US$1.45 billion Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project, in the small Southeast Asia country of Laos, is supposed to generate revenue for the cash-strapped Lao government by exporting…
The proposed Tampakan project is a copper and gold mine in the south east of the southern Island of Mindanao. Xstrata is the main company behind the project. Its local subsidiary…
Peru's Camisea gas project was designed to exploit an enormous gas field in the Amazonian region. It consists of 3 components: exploration and extraction at four drilling…
Dynegy LS Power is currently planning to construct more new coal-fired power plants than any other company in the USA, which will result in very large increases in greenhouse…
The Grasberg mine, located in the indonesian province of Papua, on the island New Guinea, just north of Australia, is being run by the mining company Freeport McMoran. The…
BankTrack has identified controversial issues
with the companies listed below that require attention from ING.
Areva
France
If you imagine the global nuclear industry as a giant web, AREVA is the fat, radioactive spider at its centre, greedily looking for new prey. It has manufacturing facilities…
E.ON is a German electricity company headquartered in Düsseldorf and is one of the big global players in energy production. E.ON operates along the entire value chain…
Like its rival and fellow French multinational AREVA, Électricité de France (EDF) is one of the biggest players in the global energy game. In fact, with more…
As Italy's largest power company and Europe's second largest according to its generating capacity, Enel is another one of the titans of the energy industry. Its interests…
Europe's second largest electricity generator and one of Europe's five leading gas and electricity companies. Founded in 1898, the company has grown to supply electricity…
Coal funeral at Deutsche Bank, ING & BNP Paribas Mar 01, 2011
Netwerk Vlaanderen action against ING Nov 26, 2005
videos
Coal funeral at Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas and ING
Jan 09, 2012 - On the 1st of March 2011, Netwerk Vlaanderen and its partner organisations in the Bankroet campaign buried coal in front of Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas and ING, putting the dirty energy source where it belongs: under the ground. Netwerk Vlaanderen handed over more than 4.000 signatures against investments in coal-fired power plants to the respective banks. These banks are among the biggest financiers of coal-fired power plants in the Belgian banking sector.
Risky Business: the Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project
Mar 22, 2010 - The Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project, the largest dam in Laos, was hailed by many as they way to reduce poverty and demonstrate best practice in socially and environmentally responsible dam building, still the initial signs have not been promising...
headquarters
ING House, P.O. Box 810
1000 AV Amsterdam
Netherlands
International website developed by BankTrack, CRBM, Les Amis de la Terre, Netwerk Vlaanderen, Platform, Setem and Urgewald.
Information in English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish.
Funeral of coal at BNP Paribas, ING, Deutsche Bank
On Tuesday 1st March NGOs handed over 4,000 signatures to representatives of banks that are active on the Belgian market. The signatories of this petition asked the banks to end their investments in coal-fired power stations.
