Hunt for Gas Hits Fragile Soil, and South Africans Fear Risks
Updated: 2011-12-31 11:46:09
, 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 withdrawn Chris Hayward , a South African farmer , says , If our government lets these companies touch even a drop of our water , we’re ruined . 8221 Photo Credit :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
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Emails show how a Washington lobbyist enlisted Canadian officials to beat back U.S. carbon standards
When President Barack Obama decided in early November to delay a decision on TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline until after the next election, America’s environmental movement celebrated one of its biggest victories in recent memory. 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 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
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South Korea’s rapid ascent to join the ranks of the developed economies of the world has been nothing short of miraculous. With a per capita GDP of $31,750, its citizens make more than the average European, based on purchasing power parity (PPP), a fact that surprises many. In stark contrast to its improvised neighbor to [...]