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May 20th, 2004:

SHELL, MR JUSTICE LADDIE AND ‘JUSTICE’

20 May 2004

Lord Falconer of Thoroton
Secretary of State and the Lord Chancellor
Department for Constitutional Affairs
Selborne House
54-60 Victoria Street
London
SW1E 6QW

Dear Lord Falconer

SHELL, MR JUSTICE LADDIE AND “JUSTICE”

I note that one of the aims of your department is to “empower citizens to obtain justice, safeguard their rights and participate in a transparent and accountable democratic process”.

Presumably you agree that a fair and just civil trial requires the following fundamentally essential ingredients:- read more

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SHELL, MR JUSTICE LADDIE AND ‘JUSTICE’

20 May 2004

Lord Falconer of Thoroton                                              

Secretary of State and the Lord Chancellor                            

Department for Constitutional Affairs                                  

Selborne House                                                          

54-60 Victoria Street                                                    read more

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Los Angeles Times: Shell’s Refinery Shutdown: Standard Business Practice

Los Angeles Times: Shell’s Refinery Shutdown: Standard Business Practice

By Michael Hiltzik

May 20, 2004   

Every so often a major corporation, following its natural instinct to root out another few pennies of profit per share, drives blindly into a political quagmire. It leaves a community without employment by closing a factory, bulldozes a landmark to put up another drive-through restaurant, dumps wastewater in a bucolic swimming hole — you know the sort of thing.

These are salutary events in their way, because they remind people that as much as big businesses love to drape themselves in patriotism and good works, they’re not charities.
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Oakland Tribune: Boxer pointing finger at Shell

Oakland Tribune: Boxer pointing finger at Shell

By Associated Press

Posted 20 May 04

WASHINGTON — California Sen. Barbara Boxer accused Shell Oil on Tuesday of planning to begin shutting down its refinery in Bakersfield sooner than publicly disclosed. A company spokesman denied the allegation.

“My information is that Shell is planning to begin the shutdown process as early as August by taking production units off line,” Boxer wrote in a letter to the president of Shell, Lynn Laverty Elsenhans.

“To take refinery units off-line in August, when summer gas prices are at a peak, will only worsen the problem of insufficient supply. … If true, then your earlier statements of an October shutdown are not accurate.”
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A global threat buried

The Times: A global threat buried

By Anjana Ahuja

May 20, 2004

Energy companies hope that carbon dioxide — the ‘villain’ of global warming — can be stored safely in underground rock formations for thousands of years. Problem solved?

JUST EAST of Houston, Texas, lies an abandoned oilfield. It may be barren but it is by no means redundant. It has just become a testing ground for a technology that could prove crucial in the decades ahead.

American scientists have started trucking in lorryloads of liquefied carbon dioxide from a nearby BP oil refinery and pumping it into the rocks that lie above the emptied oil reservoir. Once underground, the theory goes, the gas will invade the mile-deep alternating layers of sand and shale, and push out the salty water that currently fills its pores. Barring any leakages, the gas will remain there for thousands of years, supposedly safely tucked away from the atmosphere and so unable to contribute to climate change.
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