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August 10th, 2012:

Environmentalists oppose Shell drilling

A group of environmental organizations have urged the Obama administration not to allow oil giant Shell to begin planned exploratory drilling in Arctic seas off Alaska’s coast this summer.

Published: Aug. 10, 2012 at 2:43 PM

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (UPI) — Environmental organizations urged the Obama administration not to allow oil giant Shell to begin planned exploratory drilling in arctic seas off Alaska this summer.

After a series of delays, Shell was to begin its long-planned drilling in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas during the brief ice-free period this summer. But the company’s window for drilling is narrowing, as it faces a Sept. 24 deadline when it must cease operations in hydrocarbon-bearing zones in the Chukchi and by Oct. 31 in the Beaufort. read more

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Convenience Store News: Shell Settles Class Action with Workers

Convenience Store News: Shell Settles Class Action with Workers

FROM OUR AUGUST 2005 SHELL NEWS ARCHIVE…

“The Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies has agreed to pay $90 million to settle a lawsuit brought by U.S. employees after it revealed it had inflated its oil and natural gas reserve numbers.”

Posted 11 August 2005

HOUSTON — The Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies has agreed to pay $90 million to settle a lawsuit brought by U.S. employees after it revealed it had inflated its oil and natural gas reserve numbers.

On Jan. 9, 2004, when Shell admitted to overstating its reserves by 20 percent, the stock sank. Shell Transport and Trade dropped 7 percent that day. Royal Dutch Petroleum dropped 8 percent.

After several more revisions that year, Shell ultimately admitted to overstating oil and gas reserves by more than 40 percent. read more

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Edmonton Sun: Shell bulks up!

FROM OUR AUGUST 2004 SHELL NEWS ARCHIVE…

Edmonton Sun (Canada): Shell bulks up!

Shell Canada Ltd now expects the next phase of expansion at its Athabasca oilsands project in northern Alberta to cost about $7.3 billion. That is nearly twice the estimated price released last fall.”

Wednesday 10 August 2005

By CP

CALGARY — Shell Canada Ltd. now expects the next phase of expansion at its Athabasca oilsands project in northern Alberta to cost about $7.3 billion.

That is nearly twice the estimated price released last fall.

Shell said yesterday its first major expansion at the Athabasca project, still targeting a 100,000-barrel-daily production boost, would now include “over-building” of common infrastructure to make further expansions cheaper and easier.

“The scope and scale of the expansion has been modified to include pre-building of infrastructure and utilities to support our longer-term goal of 500,000 barrels per day,” Shell spokesman Janet Annesley said. read more

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Government Delays Shell’s Drilling Operations in the Arctic

By: Audrey Hudson  8/10/2012 06:24 AM

Shell’s arctic drilling plans have stalled due to a number of obstacles including needed government permits, a slow summer ice melt, an OK from the Coast Guard, and if environmentalists have their way, sea raspberry coral.

The multinational oil and gas company hoped to start drilling five exploratory wells in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas off the northern Alaskan coast beginning July 1, but the four-month drilling window is closing fast forcing the to company to scale back their plans to just two wells. read more

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Peru tribes fear gas may bring extinction

FROM OUR AUGUST 2004 SHELL NEWS ARCHIVE…

iol.co.za: Peru tribes fear gas may bring extinction

Environmentalists say Shell’s contact in the 1980s wiped out half of the Yora tribe, pushing it toward extinction. Companies risk wiping out tribes with little or no contact with the outside world because pipeline workers expose them to diseases to which they have no immunity…

By Eduardo Orozco

Posted 10 August 2004

Malvinas, Peru – When Peru Camisea natural gas reserves arrive in Lima on Friday the economic boon they promise will come at a high price, the fear of extinction among the remote jungle tribes along the pipeline corridor.

Two decades after they were discovered, the Camisea reserves are expected to bring in about $8-billion in royalties for the government over a 40-year lifetime, generate billions of dollars in gas exports and slash Peru’s $700-million a year dependence on hydrocarbon imports. read more

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More Shell Spying

Rossport protesters under 24-hour surveillance by private security firm

Friday, August 10, 2012

LORNA SIGGINS, Western Correspondent

OPPONENTS OF the Corrib gas project in north Mayo are seeking legal advice on a communication that indicates the Rossport solidarity camp is under 24-hour surveillance by a private security company.

The communication involves a “situation report” that documents movements at the protest camp in late June.

The solidarity camp, initially established at Rossport in 2005, is pitched on private land at Aughoose – one of two locations for the final part of the Corrib gas pipeline, along Sruwadaccon estuary, a special area of conservation. read more

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