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November 7th, 2015:

Shell shareholders should think carefully about BG takeover

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Screen Shot 2015-10-31 at 16.01.23By Ian McVeigh: 12:36PM GMT 07 Nov 2015

Investors watching the takeover boom and wondering whether it is the start or the end of a period of high investment returns may want to have a look at Shell’s proposed takeover of BG.

Megadeals often tell us that the buyer is far more challenged than we know or he admits. Companies with good, reliable prospects almost never take such risks. Prospects for a dividend may play a large role in this deal.

When looking at the proposed purchase of BG, I note a striking similarity with RBS’s purchase of ABN Amro (ABN) in 2007. read more

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Oil giants ‘face cascade of claims’

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Robin Pagnamenta Energy Editor: November 7, 2015

An investigation by New York’s attorney-general into ExxonMobil’s record on climate science could trigger a “cascade” of similar claims against other oil companies, including Britain’s BP and Royal Dutch Shell, legal experts have warned.

Prosecutors might seek to investigate other companies that helped to fund organisations that queried climate science, such as the Global Climate Coalition, of which BP and Shell were members during the 1990s, they said. read more

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Shell says $60-$80 carbon price needed to justify carbon storage

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Screen Shot 2015-10-28 at 08.03.29Nov 6 2015, 16:59 ET | By: Carl Surran, SA News Editor

Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.A, RDS.B) unveils a $1.3B carbon capture storage project for Alberta, but says future efforts to curb greenhouse gases will continue to need financial support from governments.

Shell CEO Ben van Beurden says carbon capture and storage projects need a $60-$80 price for carbon dioxide to justify building them, more than 5x the current price of C$15/ton (US$11.27) in Alberta.

Shell’s Quest facility will extract 1M tons of the gas from its Scotford refinery each year, and the carbon dioxide will be injected into an underground saline formation ~50 miles from the plant – it is the first in North America to store CO2 in a deep saline formation. read more

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Screen Shot 2015-09-17 at 07.55.40DAVID HOWELL, EDMONTON JOURNAL: November 6, 2015

Fort Saskatchewan — Shell and its partners Friday opened the $1.35-billion Quest carbon capture and storage project.

It is designed to capture and store more than one million tonnes of carbon-dioxide emissions a year from the bitumen upgrader at Scotford.

Built with financial help from the Alberta and federal governments, Quest is the world’s first oilsands CCS project. Shell says it can reduce CO2 emissions from the upgrader by up to 35 per cent, an amount equal to the annual emissions of 250,000 cars. read more

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Exxon Inquiry Both Mirrors and Contrasts With Tobacco Industry Case

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By JOHN SCHWARTZNOV. 6, 2015

The New York attorney general’s decision to investigate Exxon Mobil over whether the company lied to the public and investors about the risks of climate change has raised questions about possible similarities to the Justice Department’s successful suit against the tobacco industry in 1997.

The new case has reprised the famous question from Watergate — What did they know, and when did they know it? — which also was an important element of that tobacco lawsuit. read more

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Citing Climate Change, Obama Rejects Construction of Keystone XL Oil Pipeline

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President Obama is the first world leader to reject a project because of its effect on the climate,” said Bill McKibben, founder of the activist group 350.org, which led the campaign against the pipeline. “That gives him new stature as an environmental leader, and it eloquently confirms the five years and millions of hours of work that people of every kind put into this fight.”

By CORAL DAVENPORT: NOV. 6, 2015

WASHINGTON — President Obama announced on Friday that he had rejected the request from a Canadian company to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline, ending a seven-year review that had become a symbol of the debate over his climate policies.

Mr. Obama’s denial of the proposed 1,179-mile pipeline, which would have carried 800,000 barrels a day of carbon-heavy petroleum from the Canadian oil sands to the Gulf Coast, comes as he seeks to build an ambitious legacy on climate change. read more

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Keystone rejection tied to climate inaction frustration-Shell CEO

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Markets | Fri Nov 6, 2015 3:38pm EST

By Mike De Souza

Nov 6 (Reuters) – The U.S. rejection of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline was driven in part by protesters who are increasingly frustrated with inaction on climate change, Royal Dutch Shell Plc Chief Executive Ben van Beurden said on Friday.

Speaking at the launch of Shell’s new carbon capture and storage project in Alberta, the first Canadian project of its kind in the oil sands industry, van Beurden said anti-fossil-fuel movements are growing because of anxiety and resentment about a failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. read more

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