Shell Suspends Singapore Refinery After Fire
Updated: 2011-09-30 20:28:45
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 Suspends Singapore Refinery After Fire Sep 30th , 2011 by John Donovan By Ann Koh and Yee Kai Pin Sep 30, 2011 4:52 AM GMT+0100 Royal Dutch Shell Plc RDSA extinguished a fire that raged for two days at its largest oil refinery and said it’s shutting processing units at the Singapore plant as a . precaution The fire has been extinguished at Shell refinery at Pulau Bukom , Europe s biggest oil company said in a statement late yesterday . However , there are traces of fuel vapor . We are prepared to shut down all refinery units if this is considered necessary from a safety perspective , with the exception of utilities . The fire at Pulau
To hear some people talk about it, Keystone XL is the answer to many of America’s current woes. It will free America of the scourge of foreign oil dependence, create hundreds of thousands of jobs, weaken the enemies that threaten the union, and bring on the good times once again. While the good times may...Continue reading 'Myth or Miracle? Are Keystone XL jobs and energy security claims exaggerated?'.
On November 2, 2011, I am hosting a conference in Scottsdale, Arizona on how public agencies can keep parks open through private recreation management partnerships. For thirty years, the US Forest Service has seen radically declining recreation budgets, with far greater reductions than places like California is facing, but has not had to close parks [...]
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 Corrib Gas Project may grind to a halt Sep 29th , 2011 by John Donovan We hear from our sources Strong rumours here in Erris , Co Mayo beside Corrib gas development that the project will grind to a halt following an up-and-coming court case involving a local contractor , Shell and the local police force Garda The word is that the CEO and others are heading for the exit over this matter . 8221 WARNING : These are rumors Attention Royal Dutch Shell Plc : If you confirm by email that any information printed under this headline is categorically untrue , it will be removed immediately . Posted in : Corrib Gas Project Gas Ireland Royal Dutch
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 shutting down entire Singapore refinery after fire Sep 29th , 2011 by John Donovan SINGAPORE Thu Sep 29, 2011 8:22am EDT Reuters Royal Dutch Shell Plc is shutting down its entire Singapore refinery , the company’s largest , to get the fire that broke out on Wednesday under control , a senior company official told . reporters Shell is shutting more units in the vicinity of the area where the incident happened , Martijn van Koten , vice president for manufacturing operations told reporters on Thursday , and it may take two days to complete the . shutdown The fire could have started during maintenance work , he said . Only essential
Twenty years ago, Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was then largely unknown in the west either as an environmental activist or writer, started touring the capitals of Europe to drum up support for the Ogoni campaign against the oil giant Shell. Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni had many issues with Shell – the fact that they had received...Continue reading 'The Flaring Scandal that Shames the US'.
Campbell Clark AND Nathan Vanderklippe
Ottawa AND Lincoln, Neb.— From Tuesday’s Globe and Mail
Published Monday, Sep. 26, 2011 10:58PM EDT
A global battle over the reputation of Alberta’s oil sands is coming to a head. Ottawa is deploying heavy diplomatic guns, on both sides of the Atlantic, to the debate over whether it will be treated as [...]
On Wednesday last week, the hype that has surrounding fracking in the US finally arrived in the UK. The energy firm Cuadrilla, which has been drilling wells in the North West of the country under Lancashire, announced a “huge find” of gas. Cuadrilla announced that that its tests showed there could be as much as...Continue reading '“It’s a pie in the sky” number'.
China may not be where cutting edge research takes place or innovative technologies emerge, and Chinese manufacturers are not usually the first to develop and market new products. But once they identify a product as globally marketable, Chinese manufacturers typically copy and apply reverse engineering techniques and then undercut their Western competitors in their own [...]
I’m continuing this week’s tar sands theme. There seems to be no limits to how many people the Canadians will annoy in their attempt to impose the dirty tar sands on the world’s oil markets. There is also no limit to their hypocrisy either. We know the Canadians are using strong-arm tactics to threaten the...Continue reading 'Saudis Slam “EthicalOil” Tar Sands Advert'.
As the decision day for the Keystone XL pipeline draws ever nearer, the amount of rubbish being written by its proponents grows ever greater. Yesterday an article in the Vancouver Sun basically said the argument was very simple: it was jobs versus ideology. The article stated: “will human employment and corporate revenue eventually prevail over...Continue reading 'Keystone XL: Its Not Jobs Versus Ideology'.
In its “Energy Outlook” for last month, the global investment bank Goldman Sachs argued that “China remains the key growth driver” for worldwide oil demand. One of the key questions for the past decade for many in the oil-game has been where China, this vast emerging super-power, is getting access to its oil and will...Continue reading 'Chinese Increase Investment in Tar Sands'.
It’s time to say goodbye to ION’s old website. After 5+ years and a facelift (or two), the time has come to lay it to rest and launch our new site. The new site has a new look and feel and reflects our collaborative approach, evolving from a products and services provider to problem solvers [...]
In the current context, where public budgets are overstretched due to the economic crisis, there is a pressing need to understand the fiscal implications of climate policies. Decarbonization will impact both sides of a country’s budget via changes in the tax levels and composition of taxes on the one hand, as well as transfer payments [...]
After numerous delays, and even the departure of a lead investigator, later today the US government is expected to release the report into last year’s Deepwater Horizon disaster that has been undertaken by the Coast Guard and the Agency responsible for regulating offshore drilling. According to the Wall Street Journal, the federal investigation into the...Continue reading 'Gov Report into Deepwater “Spreads Blame”'.
Moving Planet is a worldwide rally to demand solutions to the climate crisis. Come on bike, on skates, on a board, or just on foot. Thousands of people all over the world will be gathering on September 24 to get moving beyond fossil fuels. They’ll be demanding government action, especially in places where governments are...Continue reading 'Join Moving Planet on September 24!'.
In the rush for the Arctic, Cairn Energy is currently the environmental villain of the moment. Despite the disastrous risks of a spill and a clearly inadequate spill response plan, the company is leading the way in drilling off Greenland. As I blogged last week, a spill in the region could be catastrophic, and Cairn...Continue reading 'Cairn Suffers Another Greenland Setback'.
Published on Saturday, September 3, 2011 by ClimateStoryTellers.org
Tar Sands Action organized a civil disobedience sit–in at The White House to oppose construction of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline that began on August 20 and will culminate in a big rally on September 3rd. On August 29 I joined 60 religious leaders and other fellow [...]