• The story of Shell Malaysia employee Carol Tan

    Updated: 2011-07-31 17:02:44
    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 The story of Shell Malaysia employee Carol Tan Jul 31st , 2011 by John Donovan RECEIVED BY EMAIL . LINKS IN WITH RECENT POSTINGS CONCERNING SHELL MALAYSIA EMPLOYEES Dear John Hope you are keeping . well Just yesterday , I came across the story of Carol Tan who recorded her experience in a website link below http : shelledfordepression.com openletter.html I was not sure if you had run her story before but if not , I think this was a well written and important piece , that would promote greater awareness among . readers Regards Posted in : Litigation Royal Dutch Shell Plc Tagged : Shell Malaysia Wrongful dismissal Can BP’s investors give oil

  • Time for the Cairo Option? – DesMoinesRegister.com (blog)

    Updated: 2011-07-31 16:58:25
    Time for the Cairo Option?DesMoinesRegister.com (blog)It's everything; the crazy historical revolutions in the Middle East, our involvement in the basket case that is Afghanistan and nuclear-armed Pakistan, the two-headed snake of peak oil and global climate change, the whole ball of wax. … More: continued here

  • Peak Oil ,China India Invest Future,Global Oil Supply Shortages, Gas Prices to Rise !

    Updated: 2011-07-31 16:58:25
    YouTube Video Link   Peak Oil ,China India Invest Future,Global Oil Supply Shortages, Gas Prices to Rise !Peak Oil ,China India Invest Future,Global Oil Supply Shortages, Gas Prices to Rise !From:makemesmile200Views:12ratingsTime:02:20More inNews & Politics

  • Can BP’s investors give oil giant the time to learn from Shell’s mistakes?

    Updated: 2011-07-31 00:52:29
    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 Can BP’s investors give oil giant the time to learn from Shell’s mistakes Jul 30th , 2011 by John Donovan Results clouded by rivals and identity crisis Titanic court battle looms for oil company Executives may face charges By Rowena Mason : 9:33PM BST 30 Jul 2011 If those headlines were meant for readers in 2011, the subject could be only one sorry corporate story : BP and its 40bn 24bn Gulf of Mexico oil . disaster However , the real answer lies six years earlier in another just as painful oil scandal that hit BP’s nearest rival , Royal Dutch Shell . This was the heated reaction to news that Shell had over-stated its oil reserves by a

  • Sunday 31st July is the last day of Shell’s ownership of Stanlow Refinery

    Updated: 2011-07-31 00:52:27
    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 Sunday 31st July is the last day of Shell’s ownership of Stanlow Refinery Jul 30th , 2011 by John Donovan EMAIL RECEIVED BY JOHN DONOVAN , John After 82 years Sunday 31st July is the last day of Shell’s ownership of . Stanlow Can I thank you for all the help , and publicity , you have given us over the last few years . We are looking forward to becoming part of Essar and are not sorry to see Shell . go Keep up the good . work Regards ENDS Posted in : Oil Royal Dutch Shell Plc Shell Tagged : Oil Royal Dutch Shell Plc Shell Stanlow Refinery Regulators Seek Records on Claims for Gas Wells Can BP’s investors give oil giant the time to learn

  • Regulators Seek Records on Claims for Gas Wells

    Updated: 2011-07-30 16:47:26
    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 Regulators Seek Records on Claims for Gas Wells Jul 30th , 2011 by John Donovan By IAN URBINA A version of this article appeared in print on July 30, 2011, on page A13 of the New York . edition WASHINGTON The Securities and Exchange Commission sent subpoenas this week to energy companies asking them for documents about how they calculate and publicly disclose the performance of their shale gas wells , according to oil and gas industry . lawyers The subpoenas reflect the regulators’ interest in determining whether companies are overstating how their gas wells perform and how much gas these companies can profitably extract over the long .

  • Durban 2020?

    Updated: 2011-07-30 16:47:26
    So, that on-again, off-again South African Olympic bid? It looks like it might be on again.

  • Tax grab casts doubt on Shell’s North Sea field plan

    Updated: 2011-07-30 16:47:22
    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 Tax grab casts doubt on Shell’s North Sea field plan Jul 30th , 2011 by John Donovan By Ross Davidson and Elaine Maslin Published : 30 07 2011 THE UK Government’s 10billion tax raid on North Sea operators has cast doubt on the future of another significant . discovery Oil and gas giant Royal Dutch Shell said yesterday it would not develop the Fram field , which holds hundreds of millions of barrels of oil , until it had assessed the full extent of the tax . impact The firm said it had submitted a field-development plan to the Department of Energy and Climate Change , but the tax rise had made even that decision more . difficult Shell

  • Pikes Peak 2011 Motul / Subaru Zenkai Motorsports + Dacia Duster PPIHC Challenge

    Updated: 2011-07-30 16:43:11
    YouTube Video Link   Pikes Peak 2011 Motul / Subaru Zenkai Motorsports + Dacia Duster PPIHC ChallengeTeaming up with Motul, Zenkai Motorsports, Dacia, Fatman Racing, Kash Singh and Rally Ready Motorsports tackled the 89th running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. This event is one that pits man and machine versus the mountain and [...]

  • Trinidad and Tobago peak oil

    Updated: 2011-07-30 16:43:10
    YouTube Video Link   Trinidad and Tobago peak oilFrom:TriniEcoWarriorsViews:00ratingsTime:10:00More inNonprofits & Activism

  • Automakers, Obama administration agree on fuel … – Peak Oil News

    Updated: 2011-07-30 16:43:09
    Peak Oil News and Message Boards is a community and collaboration portal about energy-related topics. More: continued here

  • MPG Ratings for Buildings: The Next Wave of Energy … – Peak Oil News

    Updated: 2011-07-30 16:43:08
    Peak Oil News and Message Boards is a community and collaboration portal about energy-related topics. More: continued here

  • Victories over Ontario and BC Highways – The Media Co-op

    Updated: 2011-07-30 16:43:07
    Victories over Ontario and BC HighwaysThe Media Co-opIn June, a 1950s themed demonstration featuring classic cars and retro costumes made the point that times have changed and what was fashionable in the middle of the last century looks kind of silly given peak oil and climate change. … More: continued here

  • The rise to peak oil – bunkerworld (subscription) (blog)

    Updated: 2011-07-30 16:43:06
    The rise to peak oilbunkerworld (subscription) (blog)What is peak oil and what impact will peak oil have on the world and shipping? Well, quite a lot. Does peak oil mean oil reserves are exhausted? No, it simply means maximum production levels have been achieved and output will diminish thereafter. …and more » More: continued here

  • It’s not a “Debt Crisis”. It’s “Economic Genocide” – Center for Research on Globalization

    Updated: 2011-07-30 16:43:05
    Center for Research on Globalization It's not a “Debt Crisis”. It's "Economic Genocide"Center for Research on GlobalizationThis collapse is thoroughly detailed by the prescient Mike Ruppert in his book Crossing the Rubicon, the book Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World, and the film Collapse. His web site Collapsenet [...]

  • Energy Crisis Coming – Energy and Capital

    Updated: 2011-07-30 16:43:04
    Energy Crisis ComingEnergy and CapitalWhen Brian Hicks, owner and founder of Angel Publishing, started writing articles about Peak Oil, he was practically laughed out of the industry. This was in 2004. At the time, the idea that the world could run out of oil was … More: continued here

  • SHELL £5BN JACKPOT

    Updated: 2011-07-29 14:17:11
    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 5BN JACKPOT Jul 29th , 2011 by John Donovan LIVE ARTICLE Posted in : Oil Company Profits Oil Prices Peter Voser Royal Dutch Shell Plc Tagged : Oil Prices Peter Voser Royal Dutch Shell Plc 5bn for Shell as fuel goes sky high 0 Comments on SHELL 5BN JACKPOT” Leave a Comment You must be logged in to post a . comment Subscribe to Feed Meta Register Log in Entries RSS Comments RSS WordPress.org Shell Live News Feed More news Powered by Newsfeed Maker Please Enable Javascript for this Oil Price widget to work Website Founder Alfred Donovan Illustration of 94 year old Alfred Donovan , founder of royaldutchshellplc.com , displayed courtesy of

  • £5bn for Shell as fuel goes sky high

    Updated: 2011-07-29 14:17:10
    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 5bn for Shell as fuel goes sky high Jul 29th , 2011 by John Donovan By STEVE HAWKES Business Editor SHELL revealed profits of 37,347 a MINUTE yesterday as petrol prices soared back to within a PENNY of record . levels The oil giant raked in an incredible 4.9billion from April to June up 77 per cent on last . year Chief executive Peter Voser insisted the petrol price rise was down to sky-high oil . prices He said Shell made virtually nothing” on the forecourt and told motorists to take their complaints to the . Government Mr Voser said : We are very competitive on the forecourt . And remember , 60 to 70 per cent of the price people pay at

  • Top 5 infamous data breaches

    Updated: 2011-07-29 14:17:08
    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 Top 5 infamous data breaches Jul 28th , 2011 by John Donovan By Steve Evans : Published 8 July 2011 Thanks to WikiLeaks and hacktivists Anonymous , data breaches have never been higher up the agenda . CBR looks at some of the more infamous incidents of data . loss Extract Shell , 2010 Keep your workers happy seems to be the message behind this leak . Energy giant Shell was rocked in early 2010 when a database of 170,000 of its workers was emailed out to human rights groups and environmental activists , including Greenpeace and royaldutchshellplc.com , a website run by anti-Shell campaigners . It was rumoured that the database was emailed

  • Profits soar at Shell

    Updated: 2011-07-29 14:17:06
    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 Profits soar at Shell Jul 28th , 2011 by John Donovan Oil group unveils earnings of nearly 5bn for the last quarter Terry Macalister Thursday 28 July 2011 19.12 BST Profits at Shell soared 77 to nearly 5bn in the last three months , but the oil group said there was little chance of lower prices for motorists , with energy prices due to rise even further in the long . term Chief executive Peter Voser said there was no point in blaming Shell for high pump prices given that the company made virtually nothing” on petrol and 60 to 70 of the price for each litre went to the government in . taxes It’s the end of low-cost oil and gas . I think we

  • Five more ways to help the Horn of Africa

    Updated: 2011-07-29 06:12:11
    While the world community finally mobilizes to secure funding to provide aid to the people of the Horn of Africa, I wanted to provide the readers with five more recommendations (in addition to the five from an earlier post) for how you can donate directly to relief efforts. I ...

  • Lawsuit on Shell Drilling May Become ‘Backdoor’ Ban, Odum Says

    Updated: 2011-07-28 22:07:11
    , 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 Lawsuit on Shell Drilling May Become Backdoor’ Ban , Odum Says Jul 28th , 2011 by John Donovan By Katarzyna Klimasinska Jul 28, 2011 5:00 PM GMT+0100 A lawsuit by environmental groups over Royal Dutch Shell Plc RDSA s oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico may become a backdoor moratorium” that curtails U.S . development , said Marvin Odum the company’s U.S . . president The Natural Resources Defense Council of New York and Oakland , California-based Earthjustice said Obama administration approval of a Shell exploration plan for the Gulf’s deep waters violates environmental laws and should be withdrawn , according to June 9 . petitions This

  • Restraint of Trade

    Updated: 2011-07-28 20:42:15
    Private actors are often accused of collusion to restrain trade and decrease competition, and certainly there are a number of examples of this in history.  However, all such private arrangements are usually doomed, in part because the incentive for certain parties to cheat are high in such arrangements.  And the parties to such agreements have [...]

  • Only in Washington

    Updated: 2011-07-28 17:26:30
    Only government workers could consider this proposed spending profile to be a “cut”.  Below is Boehner’s discretionary spending plan (numbers exclude programmed spending such as entitlements). This reminds me of my Forbes column a while back comparing the Federal budgeting process with that of a private enterprise.

  • Tim DeChristopher - Speech to the Court

    Updated: 2011-07-27 17:43:59
    As many of you already know, Tim DeChristopher was sentenced to 2 years in jail yesterday for defending thousands of acres of pristine wilderness in Utah. The Bush administration was illegally selling off land to the oil and gas companies. DeChristopher stopped them. I am deeply moved by his courage. Vandy July 27, 2011 Excerpt - [...]

  • Tim DeChristopher, Environmental Hero - JAILED

    Updated: 2011-07-27 17:36:24
    Tim DeChristopher was sentenced to 2 years in prison on July 26, 2011 at the Salt Lake City federal courthouse. He was taken immediately into custody, being denied the typical 3 weeks afforded to put his affairs in order and say goodbye to his friends and family. Federal prosecutors asked for Tim [...]

  • I Would Have To Be Pretty Hungry To Hit This Vending Machine

    Updated: 2011-07-27 17:25:40
    Seen recently in an airport, but unfortunately I have been to so many I can’t remember which one.  Sacramento, maybe?

  • The $529 Million Family Car

    Updated: 2011-07-26 23:17:21
    Ray Lane of Kleiner Perkins has helped score hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money from the Obama administration to help subsidize Kleiner investments.  More corporate welfare for billionaires. It is a nice touch, therefore, that the first tangible result of these sizable public subsidies will be… a new family car for Ray Lane [...]

  • Why BP's Recovery Strategy Will Fail

    Updated: 2011-07-26 20:09:37
    BP CEO Robert Dudley tried Tuesday to sell folks on the company's "rapid progress" towards recovery from last year's Gulf oil disaster. There's a reason why it fell a little flat.

  • Canada’s “Pipeline Through Paradise”

    Updated: 2011-07-25 10:50:48
    One of the biggest problems for proponents of the tar sands (apart from frying the climate and polluting the local rivers and ripping up ancient boreal forests) is getting the dirty oil to hungry markets. The route south from Alberta to America and the refineries of the Gulf coast hinges on the controversial Keystone XL...Continue reading 'Canada’s “Pipeline Through Paradise”'.

  • Renewable Energy's Plan B: Lobby for Oil and Gas Tax Breaks

    Updated: 2011-07-22 17:24:51
    The renewable energy industry could suffer a financing drought once tax credits that helped fuel a wind and solar power project boom expire at the end of the year. But don't worry, the industry...

  • Toward a New Politics of Food

    Updated: 2011-07-21 19:04:12
    Posted on Jul 15, 2011 By David Sirota NOTE: I am convinced that government policies that favor junk food over fruits, vegetables, and plant based proteins, are immoral. They degrade human health and jeopardize wellness. Vandy The easiest way to explain Gallup’s discovery that millions of Americans are eating fewer fruits and vegetables than they ate last year [...]

  • Head of Saudi Electric Company Says “Oil Runs Out in 2030 if Current Consumption Maintained”

    Updated: 2011-07-21 18:48:17
    Friday June 10, 2011 by Mike “Mish” Shedlock In light of Saudi Arabia wanting to step up production only to be rebuffed by the rest of OPEC, this story from elEconomista.es is rather interesting. Courtesy of Google Translate please consider Saudi Arabia fears that the oil runs out in 2030 if current consumption is maintained Note: I am rewording [...]

  • Natural gas not the answer, climate groups say

    Updated: 2011-07-21 06:54:36
    By Max Paris, CBC News Posted: Jul 14, 2011 2:02 AM PT Last Updated: Jul 14, 2011 Natural gas is not a “transition” fuel to a low-carbon energy future, says a report from two of Canada’s most respected environmental think-tanks. Natural gas isn’t a long-term answer to lowering greenhouse gas emissions, a new report says. Here, the Rowan Gorilla [...]

  • Large oil companies’ US refining capacity down 10% in 30 months: analysts New York (Platts)

    Updated: 2011-07-21 06:03:07
    New York (Platts)–11Jul2011/1232 pm EDT/1632 GMT “Large integrated companies sense that oil consumption in the west has peaked permanently and irreversibly.”    – Raymond James Investment analysts Large oil companies’ US refining capacity down 14% in 30 months. Large integrated oil companies have reduced their US refining capacity by nearly 10% in the past 30 months, and could reach [...]

  • “Cowboy” Cairn Gags Greenpeace

    Updated: 2011-07-20 10:42:12
    One of the many ways in which powerful polluters try to silence their critics is through legal intimidation. And Cairn Energy, which is involved in controversial drilling in the Arctic, is no exception. For months Cairn has been dogged by Greenpeace, which has been campaigning against its Artic operations off Greenland. On Monday about 60...Continue reading '“Cowboy” Cairn Gags Greenpeace'.

  • Chavez Cancer Drama: The Worst Case Scenario for the Oil Industry

    Updated: 2011-07-19 19:19:51
    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez departure to Cuba for cancer treatment has fueled speculation about the future of its oil industry. The worst-case scenario isn't political instability, but paralysis.

  • Two More Oil Spills…

    Updated: 2011-07-19 10:23:25
    Just as BP slowly begins to rebuild its tarnished reputation, it has slipped up again. Not in a catastrophic company-threatening way  like it did last year but a much smaller spill, this time in Alaska. Although the amount spilt – some 2,100 to 4,200 gallons of fluid -  is infinitesimal compared to the Deepwater Horizon,...Continue reading 'Two More Oil Spills…'.

  • Shale Gas Investment is “Eye-Watering”

    Updated: 2011-07-18 10:45:52
    The world’s largest mining company, BHP Billiton has signalled it too wants to get in on the shale gas revolution sweeping the US, despite the growing controversy over fracking. In a deal announced late last week, BHP agreed to pay $12.1bn for Houston-based gas developer Petrohawk, with a view to spending nearly $50 billion developing...Continue reading 'Shale Gas Investment is “Eye-Watering”'.

  • Where's the Smart Cleantech Money Coming From? Big Oil and Gas

    Updated: 2011-07-13 11:45:16
    Chesapeake Energy launched a $1 billion fund to invest in technologies that can use domestically produced natural gas instead of foreign oil.

  • What if the Carbon Bubble Bursts?

    Updated: 2011-07-13 10:24:15
    For many years now, a number of activists and analysts have argued that if we are serious about tackling climate change then the reserves of oil and gas in the ground need to be seen as liabilities and not assets. At the moment an oil company is judged by investors by the strength and size...Continue reading 'What if the Carbon Bubble Bursts?'.

  • Residential Land Use Controls and related means of Increasing Access to Farm Land Policies.

    Updated: 2011-07-13 06:57:02
    By Rick Balfour July 12, 2011 alr-land-access-report-draft-b2 This is a topic of great concern to groups of people now looking to relocate but need to do so in collective, cooperative manner, and not necessarily in ecovillage form, but as extended family or combination of relationships similar to one. There are many examples but the illustrations communicate a need of [...]

  • Keystone Spill Risk “Flawed”, Argues Expert

    Updated: 2011-07-12 10:20:24
    Last week, came the news that an Exxon pipeline had ruptured into the beautiful Yellowstone river. This was quickly followed by the revelations that the controversial Keystone XL pipeline would pass under the same stretch of river, raising doubts over its safety and capacity to clean up any spill. Now this has been followed by...Continue reading 'Keystone Spill Risk “Flawed”, Argues Expert'.

  • Keep Alberta’s oil in the ground

    Updated: 2011-07-12 02:01:37
    Bill McKibben Special to Globe and Mail Update Published Monday, Jul. 11, 2011 2:00AM EDT I spent my elementary school years as a “landed immigrant,” living in the Leaside section of Toronto; my father, a journalist, was covering Canada for Business Week magazine. It was the late 1960s, and it was a pretty idyllic neighbourhood: [...]

  • Spin Zone Alert: Nuclear Still Trumps Renewable Energy

    Updated: 2011-07-08 11:53:00
    A government report shows renewable energy has surpassed nuclear and is closing in on oil. It's an extraordinary milestone and that provides an unclear picture of where renewable energy really stands.

  • Now its Yellowstone To Keystone

    Updated: 2011-07-08 10:47:29
    You would have thought that Rupert Murdoch had enough on his plate right now without one of his paper’s backing the highly controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline in an editorial yesterday. Despite the deep controversy surrounding the specific project and the safety of pipelines in general, which have been reigntied by Exxon’s Yellowstone spill,...Continue reading 'Now its Yellowstone To Keystone'.

  • Ruptured Pipeline Spills Oil Into Yellowstone River

    Updated: 2011-07-05 19:19:53
    By ANAHAD O’CONNOR Published: July 03, 2011 An ExxonMobil pipeline running under the Yellowstone River in south central Montana ruptured late Friday, spilling crude oil into the river and forcing evacuations. The pipeline burst about 10 miles west of Billings, coating parts of the Yellowstone River that run past Laurel - a town of about 6,500 people downstream [...]

  • Oilsands wealth grew 23-fold since 1990

    Updated: 2011-07-05 17:26:18
    By CBC News, cbc.ca, Updated: June 28, 2011 12:45 PM The value of Canada’s oilsands grew 23-fold to $441 billion from $19 billion between 1990 and 2009, Statistics Canada reports. That put the value of crude bitumen from the oilsands higher than the value of coal, crude oil and natural gas combined, according to a report on [...]

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