Shell Says We Have to Decarbonize Planet Earth
We have to decarbonize planet earth in the coming decades.
That’s what Ed Daniels, head of strategy at Shell, stated during a presentation at Web Summit on Tuesday in Lisbon, Portugal, which was attended by Rigzone.
“I feel an immense amount of responsibility that our company along with governments and society has to do,” Daniels told audience members during the presentation, which included a Q&A session with Neanda Salvaterra, an energy reporter at The Wall Street Journal.
“I’m simultaneously energized and frightened by the scale of the challenge,” Daniels added.
In the presentation, the Shell representative revealed that he thinks there is going to be a role for hydrocarbons “while we work out how to decarbonize the energy system”.
“There will be a role for oil and gas, albeit we have to come up with the technologies that offset, I think, some of those emissions, whether that’s carbon capture and storage or its nature-based solutions, growing trees etc.,” Daniels stated.
Sector Decarbonization
During the talk, the Shell head said “we can readily understand how we decarbonize” some sectors but added that “we are struggling to exactly understand how we will decarbonize” other sectors.
“If you look at the number of electric vehicles on the roads, you can imagine how we can decarbonize car transportation, or even home heating by more use of electricity,” Daniels stated.
“There are a number of sectors – let’s say aviation, shipping, chemicals manufacture – where at the moment, we are struggling to exactly understand how we will decarbonize those things over the coming decades,” he added.
Shell had an interactive board outside the presentation area, which showed that event attendees believed new digital technologies will have made society greener by 2040.
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
