Hunt for Gas Hits Fragile Soil, and South Africans Fear Risks
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, 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 Hunt for Gas Hits Fragile Soil , and South Africans Fear Risks Dec 31st , 2011 by John Donovan In July , the Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa , an independent agency that sets guidelines for media companies , ruled that several of Shell’s advertised claims including one that said fracking had never led to groundwater contamination were misleading or unsubstantiated and should be . withdrawn Chris Hayward , a South African farmer , says , If our government lets these companies touch even a drop of our water , we’re ruined . 8221 Photo Credit : Liaan Pretorius for The New York Times A version of this article appeared in print
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 Oil Spills Spread to Delta Communities Dec 28th , 2011 by John Donovan Sopuruchi Onwuka And Napoleon Ehiremen : 28 December 2011 Warri The crude oil volumes that spilled from Bonga deepwater field has started arriving the coastal communities in Niger Delta , sparking off a spate of public outcry over the dreaded impact on the fragile . environment Consequently , people of Delta state communities have called on the federal government and Shell to take immediate steps to halt the spill to avoid further damage to their land and sources of . water The development came as officials of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency
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 Ogoni Establishes Environmental Protection Agency Dec 26th , 2011 by John Donovan Graphics from Guardian newspaper article : Unloveable Shell , the Goddess of Oil PRESS STATEMENT ISSUED BY MOSOP : 26 December 2011 A measure to make sure that Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation , Royal Dutch Shell and others face compelling action to hold them accountable for environmental crimes in . Ogoni MOSOP President and Spokesman , Dr . Goodluck Diigbo said that the Ogoni people have learnt the hardest lesson that it was not the wisest thing to do , to allow petroleum operations in Ogoni without a formal Environmental Impact Assessment Study EIAS
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 Boasts over Shell avoidance of oil spills come back to haunt its CEO Dec 25th , 2011 by John Donovan By John Donovan In October 2010, the Daily Mail published an article reporting claims by Royal Dutch Shell Plc Chief Executive , Peter Voser , that Shell would never have made the mistakes that led to the BP Gulf of Mexico oil disaster , which resulted in a huge oil spill . The claims have come back to haunt Mr Voser . Royal Dutch Shell wades in with attack on BP over spill Daily Mail 13 October 2010 We subsequently learned of a near miss which had taken place in December 2009 on Shell’s Sedco 711 North Sea platform , with an uncanny
, 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 Nigerian Oil Spill Stretches 900 Square Kilometers , says Environmental Group Dec 24th , 2011 by John Donovan December 24, 2011 An environmental group says an oil spill off the coast of Nigeria this past week could stretch across more than 900 square kilometers of . ocean The U.S . based group , SkyTruth , says it estimates from satellite images it has obtained that the slick is 70 kilometers long and spans 17 kilometers at its widest . point Royal Dutch Shell discovered the spill Tuesday about 120 kilometers off the southern coast of . Nigeria Shell estimates the amount of leaked oil at less than 40,000 barrels and says the spill has
IESE Blog Community About Home BizKnowledge Watch IESE Library Blog Dec 23 2011 0 Blog Closed for Christmas Holidays We would like to remind you that the Library will be closed during the Christmas Holidays and the blog will be on hiatus until January 10. We will be back , however , after the holidays with an array of new topics and interesting . news Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2012 Written by IESE Library Staff in : IESE Library Categories Books and libraries Careers Economics Statistics IESE Library IESE Reports Innovation Entrepreneurship Journals Market Industry reports Rankings Social responsibility Popular Posts Doing Business in Kenya Global Employment Trends for Youth 2010 Harnessing Business Opportunities in South Asia Insurance Distribution : Going for Broke(r 100 Best
IESE Blog Community About Home BizKnowledge Watch IESE Library Blog Dec 22 2011 0 UN Climate Change Conference 2011 : decisions , agreements and . resolutions CC Flickr Intermon Oxfam The United Nations Climate Change Conference , Durban 2011, delivered a breakthrough on the international community’s response to climate change . In the second largest meeting of its kind , the negotiations advanced , in a balanced fashion , the implementation of the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol , the Bali Action Plan , and the Cancun Agreements . The outcomes included a decision by Parties to adopt a universal legal agreement on climate change as soon as possible , and no later than 2015. The President of COP17 CMP7 Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said : What we have achieved in Durban will play a central role
Just over a decade after BP rebranded itself “Beyond Petroleum” and introduced its famous sunburst Helios logo in honour of a Greek sun god, the oil giant has fatally undermined its “green” credentials by axing its solar power business. BP argues that it “can’t make any money” from selling panels at a time when it...Continue reading 'Sun Sets on BP’s Solar Business'.
IESE Blog Community About Home BizKnowledge Watch IESE Library Blog Dec 21 2011 The Top 10 Consumer Packaging Companies CC VFS Digital Design Flickr Datamonitor 360 has just published a report titled The Top 10 Consumer Packaging Companies The global consumer packaging market is estimated by Rexam to be worth 395 . billion For the last few years it has been growing by an average of around 5 percent a year , although the economic downturn saw this slow to around 3 percent in 2009. The mature regions of Western Europe and North America account for the bulk of the market , due to the demand for consumer products , particularly packaged food and . drink However , the developing regions are gradually gaining ground as these consumer markets evolve . Plastics currently account for the bulk of
IESE Blog Community About Home BizKnowledge Watch IESE Library Blog Dec 01 2011 The World’s 100 Most Innovative Companies CC gspidermac Flickr Apple L’Óreal and Microsoft are some of the world’s most innovative companies , according to Thomson Reuters’ latest list of the Top 100 Global Innovator companies . The ranking is based on four main criteria : patent approval success rate , global reach of patent portfolio , patent influence in literature citations and overall patent . volume The comparison of market data for the 2011 Top 100 Global Innovator companies shows they added 400,087 new jobs in 2010, three percent more than the prior year and greater than the percentage increase in growth experienced by the S P 500 for the same period . To view the full ranking and related stories on the
IESE Blog Community About Home BizKnowledge Watch IESE Library Blog Dec 02 2011 UNCTAD : Technology and Innovation Report 2011 CC Technology and Innovation Report 2011 UNCTAD The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD has just published the Technology and Innovation Report 2011 that focuses on the important role of renewable energy technologies in responding to the dual challenge of reducing energy poverty while mitigating climate change . This is particularly timely as the global community prepares for the Rio+20 Conference next . year The Report identifies key capacity issues for developing countries and proposes concrete recommendations for the wider use of renewable energy technologies to promote sustainable development and poverty . reduction To see the report
IESE Blog Community About Home BizKnowledge Watch IESE Library Blog Dec 06 2011 A different world Chemicals 2030 CC declanfleming Flickr Although the chemicals market will continue to grow to about EUR 5 trillion , thus more than doubling , by 2030, several internal and external trends are negatively impacting profitability in the . industry Increasing competition from Asia , the importance of sustainability , the increasingly shorter lifecycles of chemical products and issues with sourcing raw materials will all play a . role By 2030, companies from the various chemical sectors will be engaged in fierce competition for additional market volume worth more than 1 trillion euros . To do so , they will have to find a strategy that puts them ahead of the . competition These are key findings of
There was widespread anger and dismay today from anti-oil campaigners after it was revealed that four of the Britain’s biggest cultural organisations – the British Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Opera House and Tate – were going to renew their sponsorship deals with BP worth £10m over five years. All four institutions have...Continue reading 'UK Arts Institutions Renew BP Sponsorship'.
Yesterday, Republicans and a few Democrats defied a veto threat from President Obama and passed a bill extending a cut in Social Security payroll taxes which also would fast track a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline and give polluters a variety of other gifts. Representative Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, said the Republicans...Continue reading '“Gas & Oil Party” passes Keystone XL poison pill'.
Our latest report, Getting to Market: Emerging Investor Risks in the Tar Sands highlights the latest challenge facing the tar sands industry and warns investors to look more critically at industry’s ambitious claims. Download the full report Tar sands extraction projects are moving forward with increasing pace. The industry ambition is to grow production from...Continue reading 'Tar sands have trouble ‘getting to market’ – new report'.