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Oil giants talk tax to kill environment

Evidence is mounting of a coordinated global oil industry effort to seize upon the international economic crisis as an opportunity to “rebel” against ecological controls and bludgeon concessions out of governments.

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Lord Turner calls for wind and nuclear power in race to cut emissions

Last week, BP said that it was pulling out of a British CCS project and was abandoning the domestic wind energy industry altogether in search of higher returns in the United States. Other renewable energy projects are struggling under the twin burdens of high costs and a lack of finance. The weaker oil price has also undermined their economic attractiveness to lenders a

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Government of Saskatchewan, Royal Dutch Shell and University of Regina establish international CO(2) storage assessment centre

The Government of Saskatchewan, Royal Dutch Shell and the University of Regina today announced a new international centre that will help make western Canada a world leader in the worldwide deployment and acceptance of Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (CCS).

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Oil Industry Must Step Up Cooperation on Carbon, Executive Says

The global financial crisis, which threatens to slow international efforts to tackle global warming, makes collaboration more important, Roodhart, who is also head of strategic innovation at Royal Dutch Shell Plc's international unit, said in an interview.

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Climate–conscious firms urged to apply for Shell funding

Applicants to the Shell Springboard fund are required to demonstrate that their product or service can help combat climate change, and is innovative and commercially viable enough to be worthy of a grant of between £20,000 and £40,000.

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Shell admits its carbon emission higher than total for whole of UK

Shell reaches 743m tonnes of carbon a year and rising

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Carbon clean-up in Stinky Town

Some suggest that oil sands require double the energy usually needed for production. Shell disputes that, putting the figure at just 15 per cent more. Whatever the truth, the oil giants need to capture their emissions via CCS to offset the higher energy use required for oil-sands exploitation.

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Radical new vision of a cooler life on earth

Natalie Davies, 26, joined Shell in March last year and now works as a project services engineer based in Assen, northeast Holland. She is part of an extensive project to renovate and update the facilities and equipment used in processing gas from the huge Groningen field to make them more efficient and environmentally friendly.

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The majors: The older oil giants move into a new and troubled world

...at every turn the oil majors risk coming up against competitors that are more expert than they are.

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IP pirate Shell enticing green pioneers to disclose innovative ideas

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Green pioneers pitch for £40,000 of Shell funding

Small Business News

 – 2nd September 2008

Small businesses with pioneering ideas to combat climate change are being offered the chance to win awards of up to £40K from Shell.

Shell Springboard LogoThe Shell Springboard programme, now in its fourth year, will give six awards of between twenty and forty thousand pounds to SMEs in each of three UK regions – Scotland and Northern Ireland; northern and central England; and Wales and southern England.

Businesses wishing to apply must have been established for at least three months, have fewer than 250 employees and be set up either as a sole–trader, partnership, limited company or community–interest company. To convince the judging panel, ideas must be innovative, lead to greenhouse gas reductions and be commercially viable. Shell UK chairman James Smith said; read more

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Another science blog sponsored by Shell, greenwash champions


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Shell exec speaks on carbon dioxide capture and storage

Discuss Download Photo: Hamad Saber

John Barry: We know that the C02 concentration in the atmosphere has gone up measurably in recent years. We also know that it’s not what’s happened so far that is the problem. It’s what’s going to happen over the next 100 years if we don’t start to manage the problem.

That’s John Barry with Shell. He leads one of Shell’s efforts to manage carbon dioxide emissions – thought to be changing Earth’s climate. He spoke of carbon dioxide capture and storage.

John Barry: Carbon dioxide capture and storage is one of the technologies that offers the most promise for making a difference to CO2 emissions in the short to medium term – I’m thinking 10 or 20 years. A hundred years out, maybe there will be technologies we haven’t thought of today. read more

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On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinction

Billions would undoubtedly die.

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Shell Revives Age Old Lime To Oceans Project In A Bid To Combat Global Warming

Apart from Shell and Exxon, the US Bush administration has also expressed an interest in the solution.

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Cheney’s office tried to alter greenhouse gas testimony, former official says

WASHINGTON -- Vice President Dick Cheney's office worked to alter sworn congressional testimony provided by a federal official in order to play down the threat of global warming and head off regulation of greenhouse gas emissions, a former government official said in a new accusation Tuesday.

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Many companies are realizing that they can play a crucial role in helping communities recover from natural catastrophes

Put bluntly, a company can't fully bounce back unless its customers and employees do. The connection wasn't lost on Shell Exploration & Production in the months following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

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Climate more urgent than economy, say voters

Voters think that taking action against climate change matters more than tackling the global economic downturn, according to a Guardian/ICM poll published today.

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Lead scientist at Shell speaks on global warming

Chief Technology Officer Jan van der Eijk told a reporter from Earthsky – whose science podcasts are heard on broadcast outlets around the world – that the “increase in energy demand and also the need to use all kinds of sources of energy will lead to an increase in C02 emissions, and we all know that the C02 emissions are related to global warming. That’s a major concern and also something that calls for aggressive action.”

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Exclusive: No ice at the North Pole

It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year.

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Shell says world can stabilize greenhouse gas levels

Thirst for energy will double in the first half of the century, but increased biofuel production and carbon storage could help the world stabilize greenhouse gas levels by the 2020s, oil giant Shell said on Wednesday.

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Decision time for the planet

As global coal use spirals, governments must decide whether to embrace a controversial new technology that some say is our only hope of tackling climate change

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Is the fuel crisis a blessing in disguise?

It depends on your point of view, of course, but there is some evidence that the surge in oil prices is succeeding where green campaigners and government initiatives have not...

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Put oil firm chiefs on trial, says leading climate change scientist

James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.

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Alcoa, Shell Want Climate Plan, Global Carbon Limits

June 20 (Bloomberg) -- Alcoa Inc., Royal Dutch Shell Plc and 97 other companies are urging world leaders to devise a plan for fighting global warming by setting greenhouse-gas targets for all nations and creating an international carbon market.

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Oil shortage a myth, says industry insider

Although it is widely assumed that the world has reached a point where oil production has peaked and proven reserves have sunk to roughly half of original amounts, this idea is based on flawed thinking, said Richard Pike, a former oil industry man who is now chief executive of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

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Cut biofuel targets to feed the poor, leaders are urged

World leaders will be urged today to cut EU and US biofuel targets immediately and divert more grain to tackle the global food crisis.

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At Exxon’s Can’t-Miss Meeting

Last year was another fabulous year for Exxon Mobil. It made a record $40.6 billion in profits. It replaced its reserves, no easy task with oil so hard to find and extract these days. Its safety record was stellar. Its return on capital was an astounding 32 percent, another record. It spent $21 billion in capital investments while also paying out $36 billion on a combination of dividends and stock buy backs. It share price rose 22 percent.

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Shell Oil spent more than $587K lobbying in 1Q

WASHINGTON - A U.S. unit of Royal Dutch Shell PLC spent more than $587,000 to lobby the federal government on chemical site security, energy taxes and other issues in the first quarter of the year.

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Can ExxonMobil Get Back to Business Now?

To achieve its success, ExxonMobil has been forced to do business with a less-than-hospitable Russian government, which has strong-armed Royal Dutch Shell and BP. It must also contend with Venezuelan wild man Hugo Chavez, who last year helped himself to the assets of half a dozen big oil companies. So Exxon's core business clearly involves something more than casually nibbling on bon-bons.

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Exxon Rejects Proposals Backed by Rockefellers

“Exxon Mobil is acting like a dinosaur now, not adopting to a changing environment,” a New York shareholder, Stephen Viederman, said.

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Exxon Mobil CEO takes aim at environmentalists

Rex Tillerson, chairman and chief executive of Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's largest oil-and-gas company, came out swinging Wednesday against the environmental movement, arguing the science of climate change is far from settled and that his company views it as its "corporate social responsibility" to continue to supply the world with fossil fuels.

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Shell quits UK windfarm

James Smith, speaking at a climate change workshop hosted by Thomson Reuters on Wednesday, said Shell had decided to sell its share of the London Array windfarm project after capital costs increased significantly in the past year.

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Exxon Mobil Shareholders Reject CEO-Chairman Split (Update2)

May 28 (Bloomberg) -- Exxon Mobil Corp. shareholders rejected resolutions calling on the world's largest company to bar its chief executive officer from serving as chairman and adopt greenhouse-gas reduction targets.

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Exxon Chief Defeats Challenge

DALLAS —Exxon Mobil’s chairman and chief executive, Rex W. Tillerson, defeated a shareholder effort on Wednesday to take away one of his jobs at an annual meeting punctuated by a debate of the company’s policy toward renewable energy and global warming.

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ExxonMobil shareholders air grievances

ExxonMobil, the world's largest publicly-owned energy company, took up a series of proposals Wednesday made by shareholders who are dissatisfied with the company's direction.

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Biofuels now seen as polluting and a threat to forests and food production

Brazil's ambitious plans for supplying the world with renewable sugarcane ethanol have been put on hold as criticism of biofuels escalates. Instead of being seen as a solution, biofuels have become the new villains of the energy scene and are now blamed for everything from hunger to climate change itself.

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Rockefellers Seek Change at Exxon

The resolutions ask Exxon to take the threat of global warming more seriously and look for alternatives to spewing greenhouse gases into the air.

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For All the Ecological Concern, Economy Drives Energy Use

The U.S. is at a "tipping point," with people beginning to factor energy use into everyday decisions, says Lee Schipper, who has studied energy consumption for decades, earlier for Royal Dutch Shell PLc...

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Exxon investors propose ban on green activism

It could be the nuclear option to silence rebellious investors. A libertarian activist has hit back at ExxonMobil's environmental critics by tabling a resolution that would outlaw shareholder social activism. Exxon has stopped short of endorsing the action fund's ban on shareholder activism, but the oil company wants the rules tightened to make it harder for investors to speak up at its meetings.

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Crisis talks on global food prices

World leaders are to meet next week for urgent talks aimed at preventing tens of millions of the world's poor dying of hunger as a result of soaring food prices. The world's urban poor have been hit hardest, sending a wave of unrest and instability around the world.

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Exxon again cuts funds for climate change skeptics

Exxon will not contribute to some nine groups in 2008 that it funded in 2007.

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Heavyweight investors join Rockefeller rebellion at ExxonMobil

Bill Lockyer, state treasurer of California, contrasted Exxon’s view of itself as an oil company with the approaches of BP and Shell, which have attempted to re-shape themselves as broader energy providers using alternative sources of power.

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More support for Exxon Mobil dissidents’ proxy fight

Four U.K.-based investors and a British proxy advisory firm publicly joined a group of dissident shareholders calling for an independent chairman at Exxon Mobil Corp. on Monday.

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Wind farms stalled by five-year planning delays

The fragility of the wind power business was highlighted recently when Shell pulled out of the world's biggest offshore wind farm - the London Array, off Kent - because of spiralling costs associated with planning delays.

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Chevron spent $3M lobbying on energy issues in 1Q

WASHINGTON -Chevron Corp. spent nearly $3 million to lobby on offshore oil and gas development and other energy-related issues in the first quarter of the year.

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Shell Joins IEA’s Carbon Capture Research Project in Canada

Shell, Exxon Mobil Corp. and the rest of the oil industry may face higher costs to exploit Canada's tar sands, the biggest deposit outside of Saudi Arabia, because of efforts to curb climate change. The accumulation of carbon because of burning fossil fuels is blamed for global warming.

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Another broken promise to stop gas flaring in Nigeria: Shell pleads poverty and other excuses

Indeed, even if the violence subsided, allowing work crews to safely return to the field, funding is another stumbling block. More than an additional $3 billion needs to be spent to complete the programme to build gas gathering facilities and pipelines. Reduced funding from Shell’s government partner has already delayed work on several projects.

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