Not even a good old-fashioned sex scandal could get our outrage going again. Indeed, a juicy one erupted last year in the Interior Department, where the inspector general found that officials had used cocaine and marijuana, and had sexual relationships with oil and gas company representatives. Two officials tasked with marketing oil on behalf of American taxpayers got so blotto at a daytime golf event sponsored by Shell that they became too incapacitated to drive and had to be put up by the oil company.
January 11th, 2009:
Not even a good old-fashioned sex scandal could get our outrage going again
Corrib gas field costs Shell over 120m
Efforts to take gas ashore from the field lying 83km off the Co Mayo coast have been dogged by controversy and figures yesterday showed for the first time the scale of Shell's outlay on the project.
Shell Oil’s pursuit of local waters could have big impacts
Shell Frontier Oil and Gas filed in water court in Steamboat Springs in late December to stake its claim to skim 375 cubic feet per second from the Yampa during high flows fed by snowmelt in the spring and early summer.
Shell has had more trouble curbing fatalities than many of its competitors
The Financial Times reported last month that Royal Dutch Shell had the highest mortality rate of any large western oil company, with two employees and 28 contractors dying in the line of duty in 2007.