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November 6th, 2015:

How a poor Nigerian town got Shell to pay for major oil spills

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Screen Shot 2015-09-30 at 15.38.08JESSE WINTERNovember 6, 2015

For decades, poor residents of the oil-rich Niger Delta have fought the pollution of their lands with little success. Now, writes Jesse Winter, a town ravaged by oil spills has changed the game with a historic court victory against Shell.

The Yamaha outboard coughs indignantly but refuses to catch.

John Agava mutters under his breath, removes the motor’s cover and flips it over. He siphons a splash of gasoline into it, strips the spark plug from the engine and swishes it around in the gas.

The former fisherman’s hand-carved boat rocks gently, alone on the expanse of slate-grey water of Bodo Creek in Nigeria’s Niger Delta.

Agava replaces the plug and hauls on the engine’s pull cord. It coughs and finally catches. He tosses the gasoline rinse overboard, where it mixes with the rainbow sheen left from a massive oil spill that changed his life — and thousands of others’ — seven years earlier. read more

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Shell Canada says Keystone XL was already in uncertainty window

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Shell Canada says Keystone XL was already in uncertainty window

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Royal Dutch Shell PLc said on Friday there are at least three other possible pipeline alternatives to TransCanada Corp’s Keystone XL project, which was rejected by U.S. President Barack Obama, and Shell would like to see at least one approved.

“So Keystone has been on for seven years now, so of course, it’s brought into the uncertainty window,” Lorraine Mitchelmore, president of Shell’s Canadian unit, told reporters in Calgary.

(Reporting by Mike De Souza in Calgary; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama) read more

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Shell Canada and Nova Scotia petroleum board quizzed on oil spill risks

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Shell Canada and Nova Scotia petroleum board quizzed on oil spill risks

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By Jennifer Henderson, CBC News: 5 Nov 2015

Executives from Shell Canada and Nova Scotia’s Offshore Petroleum Board were quizzed this week by the legislature’s resource committee on the oil company’s plans in the event of a blowout at an offshore drilling site near Shelburne. 

“We feel privileged that we’ve been allowed to drill exploration wells in Nova Scotia but we take our responsibilities extremely seriously and we are very focused on ensuring that a spill doesn’t happen,” said Christine Pagan, Shell’s Atlantic Canada venture manager. read more

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Exxon Mobil Investigated for Possible Climate Change Lies by New York Attorney General

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Mr. Schneiderman’s decision to scrutinize the fossil fuel companies may well open a new legal front in the climate change battle. The Exxon inquiry might expand further to encompass other oil companies…

By JUSTIN GILLIS and CLIFFORD KRAUSSNOV. 5, 2015

The New York attorney general has begun an investigation of Exxon Mobil to determine whether the company lied to the public about the risks of climate change or to investors about how such risks might hurt the oil business.

According to people with knowledge of the investigation, Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman issued a subpoena Wednesday evening to Exxon Mobil, demanding extensive financial records, emails and other documents.

The investigation focuses on whether statements the company made to investors about climate risks as recently as this year were consistent with the company’s own long-running scientific research. read more

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