By Emily Pickrell, HOUSTON CHRONICLE Published Thursday, January 12, 2012 Shell Oil Co. expects to clear remaining regulatory hurdles and begin drilling later this year in the Chukchi Sea near Alaska, company President Marvin Odum said at a scientific conference on Thursday. Shell received conditional federal approval last month to drill six exploratory wells in the [...]
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EPA board rejects appeal of Shell Arctic permit
By DAN JOLING, Associated Press 13 January 2012 ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) Royal Dutch Shell’s quest to drill exploratory wells in Arctic waters has received a boost with the affirmation that its federal air permits for the Chukchi Sea were properly granted. The EPA Appeals Board on Thursday rejected challenges to the air permits brought [...]
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Shell in their sights …. Royal Dutch Shell online critics John and Alfred Donovan outside the Shell Centre in London October 2009. Photograph: Graham Turner for Guardian newspaper article By John Donovan An article published in the Financial Times on 12 January 2012 reported that the Blackstone Group has been using a brand protection firm [...]
Europe’s Oil Firms Cook Up a Treat
JANUARY 12, 2012 By ALEXIS FLYNN European energy companies are expected to return more money to shareholders in 2012 as stubbornly high oil prices swell their balance sheets. With full-year results only weeks away, expectations are growing that heavyweights like Royal Dutch Shell will cap an extraordinary 12 months by raising dividends. According to Deutsche [...]
Group Says Shell Must Be ‘Accountable’ for Spills
Judd-Leonard Okafor 12 January 2012 The environmental group, Friends of the Earth Nigeria, says the oil corporation Royal Dutch Shell must be held accountable for pollutions from its facilities, stopping it from causing further pollution and ensuring it deploys appropriate technology to deal with spills. The group’s stance came after Senate committee on environment and [...]
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