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The U.S. banking giant JPMorgan Chase has topped 'The Forbes Global 2000” list of the biggest and most powerful companies worldwide. Their main contenders, in 2nd, 3rd and 4th place respectively, were General Electric, Bank of America and ExxonMobil.
The ranking, spanning a total of ...
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The UN Development Program (UNDP) has published the Human Development Report 2009 for the Russian Federation, “Energy Sector and Sustainable Development”. The study shows how Russia needs to shift its focus towards achieving the goal of energy efficiency.
The current economic recession provides new opportunities for ...
Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library SHELL JOINS CLEAN-UP EFFORT FOR BP SPILL Apr 29th , 2010 by John Donovan Financial Times Multinational petroleum company Royal Dutch Shell RDSa.L has dispatched six boats to assist in cleaning up the oil spill caused by last week’s fatal accident aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig . The rig had been drilling a well for BP BP.L in the Gulf of Mexico an area Shell deems very important” , with three new exploration wells identifying reserves that could amount to 350 million barrels . News of Shell’s assistance came as the group reported a 60 percent rise in underlying post-tax profits , with earnings per share up 48 percent at 80 . cents
: Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library FIRE AND ICE : Shell and BP’s hunt for offshore oil in Alaska Apr 29th , 2010 by John Donovan An ugly and growing oil leak associated with the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico last week has raised questions providing new leverage to environmentalists and North Slope residents Alaska Dispatch Craig Medred and Jill Burke Apr 28, 2010 Since the Arctic whaling days of the 1850s , profits on oil from Alaska’s north have fattened the wallets of the global merchant class . The source of the oil changed with the times , but it has continued to flow to the benefit of both commerce and .
, Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library Big banks , Shell blast CFTC position limit plan Apr 29th , 2010 by John Donovan Royal Dutch Shell is the only major oil company objecting to the plan by the U.S . Commodity Futures Trading Commission to limit speculative positions in U.S . oil and gas futures . In view of its track record of market manipulation , including false reporting , fictitious sales , fictitious trades and manipulation of natural gas prices the attempt to block regulation is predicable by the predatory oil giant which has no shame . 8221 REUTERS Roberta Rampton and Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON Wed Apr 28, 2010 3:43pm ED Reuters The biggest Wall Street energy traders
Less than a month ago, Barack Obama told us he wants to open 167 million acres of America’s continental shelf to oil drilling. At the time, he promised the nation that we have the technology to do this in a safe, clean and environmentally sound manner.
Now, before the ...
The latest estimates from BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are that the amount of oil escaping from the sunken rig is much worse than previously thought.
Yesterday the estimates were 1,000 barrels a day.
Today that has been revised to 5,000 after a new leak was discovered.
The discovery of ...
In BP’s magazine last year a senior company executive bragged that the company was focussed on "operational excellence" and “silent running”.
“Silent Running” was a new concept within the global oil giant. The final years of Lord Browne’s reign were plagued by the Texas fire in 2005 when 15 people died ...Big Oil company Chevron may have hoped that its legal troubles as far as Nigeria were over.
However, in a great victory for human rights campaigners, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has fixed June 14, 2010 to open appeal hearings in the case.
The case is called ...When faced with a PR battle, one of the fossil fuel industry’s tactics is to set up a supposed grass-roots organisation or “Astroturf” organisation.
So Citizens for the Environment had no citizens in it – it was just a front for big oil and other polluting industries. The Global Climate Coalition ...To anyone in North America, the Icelandic volcano fiasco must seem something of a distant story, unless you are trying to fly to Europe right now, when it will be a living hell.
It is a hell being experienced by hundreds of thousands of people stuck abroad who are unable to ...It is the latest twist in the on-going soap opera of Ecuadorian oil.
You have the Indigenous Indians fighting in the courts in a multi-billion battle against Texaco’s lethal toxic legacy – a battle that has been going on for decades.
But now the tiny Latin American country is threatening to follow ...If you have never been to an oil company AGM it is worth going to watch two parallel words colliding for a few hours.
On the one side are the protestors arguing passionately for the company to listen to how their activities are destroying someone’s homeland or are polluting the earth.
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Oil Giant BP faces a barrage of criticism from investors at today's AGM at the Excel Centre in London Docklands over the environmental cost of its controversial tar sands project in Canada.
BP’s showcase presentation to investors and shareholders is being overshadowed by a resolution tabled by over 140 shareholders asking ...
Tomorrow the International Board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative is holding its Annual meeting in Berlin.
The EITI was set up by ex-British Prime Minister, Tony Blair to try and improve improved governance in resource-rich countries through the verification and full publication of company payments and government revenues from oil, ...