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June 18th, 2005:

ABC News Australia: Shell, Qld Govt forge ‘clean coal’ research partnership

ABC News Australia: Shell, Qld Govt forge ‘clean coal’ research partnership

Saturday 18 June 2005

The Queensland Government has formed a research alliance with global oil giant Shell to develop clean coal technology and power.

Premier Peter Beattie met with senior Shell executives in New York yesterday, where they agreed to work together in the study.

Mr Beattie says the Government’s Stanwell Corporation is trying to capture coal as a competitively priced source of energy, while reducing carbon dioxide emissions to near-zero levels.

“Shell will work alongside Stanwell’s existing team of experts to deliver,” he said. read more

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Citigroup braced for record fine: ‘It might even top the record-breaking £17m slapped on oil company Shell last year’

The Guardian (UK): Citigroup braced for record fine: “It might even top the record-breaking £17m slapped on oil company Shell last year.”

Jill Treanor and David Gow

Saturday June 18, 2005

Citigroup is braced for a hefty fine by the Financial Services Authority despite being cleared by Germany’s Eurex exchange following an investigation into a £7bn European bond trade last year.

The City regulator has been investigating the bond trade since last August, when Citigroup made a profit of £8m in two minutes.

The FSA is thought to be in the final stages of its investigation and is expected to levy a fine that would wipe out the profit made from the trade. It might even top the record-breaking £17m slapped on oil company Shell last year. read more

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Shell Canada CEO not spooked, not panicked

Petroleum News: Shell Canada CEO not spooked, not panicked

18 June 2005

Mather not worried about competition from LNG imports, doesn’t buy talk that Mackenzie window could close by late July

Gary Park

Petroleum News Canadian Correspondent

Shell Canada’s boss is not about to join the ranks of those who fear liquefied natural gas projects in Canada will topple the Mackenzie Gas Project.

Neither is he about to set a “drop-dead” deadline for the C$7 billion Arctic venture.

Chief executive officer Clive Mather left no doubt June 9 that Shell Canada is fully committed to standing behind its 11.2 percent interest in the Mackenzie consortium and, to that extent, doesn’t agree with those who think the window of opportunity is about to close. read more

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Irish Times: Corrib work by Shell suspended after protests

Irish Times: Corrib work by Shell suspended after protests

18 June 2005

Lorna Siggins, Marine Correspondent

Shell E&P Ireland has suspended further attempts to gain access to lands in north Mayo for its Corrib gas field onshore pipeline, following protests this week by a group of landowners.

The multinational said it was considering “the options open”, including possible further recourse to the courts. In a statement, the company said that the protests on Wednesday evening in Rossport and Gortacragher represented “the third occasion” on which it had been “met with obstruction from this group”. read more

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