Posts on ‘April 17th, 2008’

RTE News: Corrib campaigners dismiss new pipe route Thursday, 17 April 2008 20:23 A group campaigning against plans to bring fuel from the Corrib gas field to a refinery in Co Mayo has dismissed the announcement of a new route for the pipeline. Shell Ireland has announced a modified route for the onshore section of [...]

Reuters: Oil eases from record over $115 Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:40pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil prices slipped from record highs on Thursday after a drop in U.S. inventories and the weaker dollar had pushed prices above $115 a barrel. U.S. crude settled down 7 cents at $114.86 a barrel after rallying to [...]

Irish Times: Alternative Corrib gas route announced Last Updated: 17/04/2008  16:46 Elaine Edwards An alternative route for the controversial Corrib Gas pipeline in Co Mayo announced today is twice as far from local houses as the original pipeline, the partners in the project claimed. The new pipleline, proposed by RPS consultants following 11 months of [...]

Belfast Telegraph: Shell announces new route for Corrib gas pipeline Thursday, April 17, 2008 Shell Ireland has announced a new proposed route for the controversial Corrib gas pipeline. The 9.2km route is twice as far away from houses in the area compared to the previously approved route. The company says it will be preparing an [...]

By John Donovan The following is an extract from comments about Shell made by “Goblok”, an anonymous contributor to our website… A business not a charity and hopefully a responsible one most of the time. Is everyone in Shell decent and ethical – for the most part yes I am sure like most other MultiNationals [...]

  Bloomberg: Newfoundland Gets Off Canada’s Dole as Williams Takes on Exxon By Greg Quinn  April 17 (Bloomberg) — The poorest province in Canada is getting off the dole. The province of Newfoundland and Labrador is being transformed by oil, and by the willingness of Premier Danny Williams to fight Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron [...]

The Guardian: Investors in Rio Tinto and BP face protests· Oil company accused of plundering Iraq’s reserves · Mining firm blamed for pollution in West Papua Terry Macalister  Thursday April 17 2008 A wave of protests will hit the annual meetings of BP and Rio Tinto in London today as human rights and environmental campaigners [...]

April 17th, 2008 06:23 Goblok speaks out on Paddy Briggs and ‘The Pearls of Shell’… Paddy my dear friend – did you not read that Shell hired 5000 new technical professionals last year in the core disciplines related to More Upstream and Profitable Downstream? The previous year another 4000 and the year before that several [...]

paradisepost.com: Oil becoming more than just pricey By David Paul Brown Article Launched: 04/17/2008 01:00:00 AM PDT It’s become boilerplate that the United States must ween itself off petroleum, at least where gasoline is concerned. Three salient points are to help the environment, stop us from trading with some in the Middle East who don’t [...]

The Times: “The Pearls of Shell” April 16, 2008 Dominic Walsh: City Diary A colleague visiting Shell’s group head office in The Hague the other day picked up a booklet in the foyer entitled Shell Group Headquarters House Rules. On the inside front page is a section called “The Pearls of Shell”, which says: “The [...]

I enclose details of our Russian fuel & energy atlas. This new atlas is the result of two decades work by the Cartographic Information Center INCOTEC and the Institute of Microeconomics in the field of mapping and information support of Russia’s energy sector. This is the first publication of such kind that includes comprehensive cartographic [...]

  San Francisco Chronicle: ‘Justicia Now!’: Ecuadorans sue Chevron Reyhan Harmanci Thursday, April 17, 2008 When activist filmmakers and production partners Robbie Proctor and Martin O’Brien, of Mo Films, went to Ecuador in June 2007, they were planning to make a television pilot about activists. The idea for the pilot came from activist and actress [...]

THE SCOTSMAN: Pirate protest at BP headquarters over Iraq oil ‘grab’ Published Date: 17 April 2008 PROTESTERS dressed as pirates will picket the offices of BP today, to highlight what they claim is the oil giant’s attempt to control the production of Iraq’s oil reserves. The demonstration at BP’s London offices during its annual meeting [...]

  Upstreamonline: Gazprom set to take Kovykta keys Wire services Gazprom boss Alexei Miller said today he expected to close a long-delayed deal to buy the giant Kovykta gas field from BP’s Russian oil venture, TNK-BP, by the end of this month, local media reported. “We will close in the near future,” Miller was quoted [...]

Associated Press  A truck drove past a gas station along Interstate 70 near Maple Hill, Kan. Wednesday. THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Crude Pierces the $115 Mark By BRIAN BASKIN April 17, 2008; Page C12 Crude-oil futures breached $115 on oil product supply fears sparked by a U.S. report showing large decrease in gasoline inventories. Light, [...]