Posts on ‘May 1st, 2007’

By Marc Schulman Last Friday, the Florida Senate voted unanimously in favor of a bill that would require divesting pension funds from companies doing business with the petroleum sector in Iran and the government of Sudan. If passed next week by the House and signed by Governor Crist, Florida would be the first state to [...]

By CSD Staff May 01, 2007 Company joins U.S. coalition currently petitioning congress. Royal Dutch Shell’s U.S. division has joined the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, an alliance of big business and environmental groups that has been urging Congress to enforce limits on greenhouse gases tied into global warming. Shell is the third oil major to [...]

A new slick promo from Shell is all gloss, cleverly avoiding the big energy and climate questions, says Ollie Willis of 2CV Research. Feeling queasy about companies attempting to humanise their cold pursuit of profit isn�t a new or irregular sensation. For sheer chutzpah, though, you would have to go some to beat Shell�s awesomely [...]

By Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent Published: May 1 2007 15:37 | Last updated: May 1 2007 15:48 Lord Browne resigned from BP on Tuesday following revelations that he had lied to a judge in an attempt to prevent stories about his private life being published by a tabloid newspaper. BP appointed Tony Hayward as [...]

By Stephen Voss May 1 (Bloomberg) — BP Plc, Europe’s second-biggest oil company, said John Browne stepped down as chief executive officer after he lost a legal battle against a U.K. newspaper over the publication of details about his personal life. Tony Hayward, who was scheduled to replace Browne as CEO as of Aug. 1, [...]

EXTRACT: Assistant Secretary of the Interior C. Stephen Allred said in the news release that OSEC�s research project, along with the five others being conducted in Colorado by Royal Dutch Shell, EGL Resources and Chevron, will allow the government to test its belief that oil shale can be developed economically and in an environmentally responsible [...]

EXTRACT:�Black Sunday made Shell�s stakeholders realize it�s best to keep the government out of its business interests, Shell spokeswoman Jill Davis said. By BOBBY MAGILL The Daily Sentinel Tuesday, May 01, 2007 When energy company executives gather in a room and start talking about trillions of barrels of oil, most of it locked within oil [...]

(Grey whale numbers are particularly low) EXTRACT: Global conservation campaign group the World Wildlife Fund has urged the Royal Dutch Shell energy group to suspend its Sakhalin oil project in the Russian Far East after the IWC called it a threat to the survival of the grey whales in the area. � By Alex Kirby [...]

The astonishing statistics for this non-commercial website – www.royaldutchshellplc.com�in April 2007… Page Views:�2,171,290 :� Hits�3,194,873 (Revised upwards 2 May 2007) �

EXTRACT: Royal Dutch Shell has been particularly eager to explore and develop the areas in Alaska, and has hired a number of former state and federal officials to help build popular support in communities near the proposed drilling areas.� By EDMUND L. ANDREWS Published: May 1, 2007 WASHINGTON, April 30 � The Bush administration proposed [...]

EXTRACT: Oil giants Shell and BP are in Turkey, as are Cadbury Schweppes and British Airways. By Philip Aldrick Last Updated: 1:19am BST 01/05/2007 Fears of a military coup sent Turkey’s stock market and currency tumbling yesterday. �� The Turkish lira suffered its largest drop in seven months amidst fears of a military coup. � [...]

But energy giants say many offshore areas are still off-limits By KRISTEN HAYS Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle The Interior Department’s rollout Monday of a finalized proposal to open 48 million acres of off-limits federal waters for exploration and drilling drew praise from the oil and gas industry, though some said the move would barely tap [...]

May 1, 2007, 2:10AM By MATTHEW LEE Associated Press Writer � 2007 The Associated Press WASHINGTON � The State Department has once again designated Iran as the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, accusing the Islamic Republic of aiding extremists throughout the Middle East, particularly in Iraq. Although the designation is not new, the release [...]

By JOHN PORRETTO AP Business Writer � 2007 The Associated Press HOUSTON � Royal Dutch Shell’s U.S. arm said Monday it has joined a corporate/environmental coalition urging Congress to require limits on greenhouse gases tied to global warming, the third oil major to do so. The Anglo-Dutch company said it has joined the U.S. Climate [...]

By The Associated Press (Multichannel News) _ DirecTV teamed up with MediaCom http://www.mediacom.com and interactive television agency Weapon7 http://www.weapon7.com to launch a global interactive ad campaign for Royal Dutch Shell. The Global Interactive Shell Campaign http://www.shell.com/home/PlainPageServlet?FC=/aboutshell-en/html/iwgen/shell_real/app_shell_real_welcome.html — now running in the United States and United Kingdom — depicts Shell exploring for oil in an environmentally [...]