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March 11th, 2009:

University of Alaska professor in danger of losing federal funding

Here's one incident that irritated Sea Grant officials: Steiner last year joined environmentalists and Native organizations in signing a protest letter alleging pro-industry bias in a UAF and Sea Grant-hosted meeting designed to seek common ground between offshore oil developers and Bering Sea fishing fleets. The biggest financial sponsor of the workshop was Shell Oil, which hopes to develop offshore leases in the region.

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Nigerian Military Beefs Up Security in Delta Region

Royal Dutch Shell, which has been the prime target of a three-year campaign of attacks on the country's oil industry, says it is unable to fulfill delivery commitments due to explosions last week on a key pipelines feeding the Escravos export terminal.

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Crude Price Slump May Help Shell Gain Access to More Reserves

“Oil prices are lower, and may continue to stay low for a period, and that will ease access to reserves,” Shell Chief Executive Officer Jeroen van der Veer told Bloomberg News in an interview in London on March 4. “It is not happening now, but it will happen.”

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Brewing Biofuels: Shell, Codexis Team Up to Drive Cellulosic Ethanol Research

Shell announced today a new agreement with Redwood City, Calif.-based Codexis to speed up development of super enzymes that can chew through starchy plants and break them down more quickly. Once cellulosic material like wheat stalks and corn stovers are broken down, they can be fermented just like corn and turned into ethanol. The problem so far has been finding a way to cheaply, quickly, and massively break down huge amounts of agricultural waste.

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