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November 12th, 2013:

Arrow LNG a likely target in Shell spending rethink

Nov 12th, 2013
by John Donovan.
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The Arrow gas export project in Australia is a likely casualty of a tighter spending regime at Royal Dutch/Shell as the company’s new boss considers feeding output earmarked for it into a rival plant instead.

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By Andrew Callus

LONDON Tue Nov 12, 2013 2:56pm GMT

(Reuters) – The Arrow gas export project in Australia is a likely casualty of a tighter spending regime at Royal Dutch/Shell (RDSa.L) as the company’s new boss considers feeding output earmarked for it into a rival plant instead.

Industry sources say the move could be among the first actions of Ben van Beurden. He inherits a recent promise to invest with care when he takes over as chief executive on January 1, and is due to outline his strategy on March 13. read more

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Company town: One woman’s fight to save her town

Nov 12th, 2013
by John Donovan.
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Her concerns grew stronger after an explosion at Shell’s refinery in 1988. (The plant is now owned by Motiva, a joint-venture between Shell and Saudi Aramco, the Saudi national oil company). The explosion toppled a 16-story tower, and cracked walls and ceilings in houses and ceilings around Norco. It set off alarms 25 miles away in New Orleans.

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Published on Tuesday, 12 November 2013

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Margie Richard with a photo of her sister Naomi, who died at the age of 43. Richard suspected that emissions from Shell had something to do with making her sister sick. (Photo by Reid R. Fraiser / The Allegheny Front)

by Reid R. Frazier: The Allegheny Front

NORCO, La. — In June 2012, Pennsylvania officials flew to Louisiana to visit a couple of petrochemical plants owned by Shell, a company they were about to give big economic incentives to build a plant in Beaver County, Pa.

But they didn’t visit Margie Richard, who once lived in Norco, but now lives outside New Orleans.

If they had, they would have gotten another story about Shell’s operations here, a story about toxic emissions, industrial accidents, and how a very determined school teacher brought one of the largest companies in the world to the negotiating table. read more

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The struggle continues, 18 years after the death of Ken Saro-Wiwa

Nov 12th, 2013
by John Donovan.
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Ken and the rest of the Ogoni 9 were murdered for standing up to Shell. But they were part of a movement that ultimately achieved a spectacular result: Shell was forced to leave Ogoniland. And,  despite Shell’s efforts, popular protest has prevented it from ever returning. Since then, we have served as an inspiration to communities all around the world who are resisting multinational companies.

Screen Shot 2013-11-12 at 09.14.54 A vigil for Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 9. Many people believe Shell was complicit in the murders of the activists. Platform London under a Creative Commons Licence

By Celestine AkpoBari

November 10 marked the 18th anniversary of the state execution of writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and the ‘Ogoni 9’.

Not long ago, the Governor of our state in Nigeria said to the Ogonis: ‘Why can’t you people move on?’ The simple answer is that since Ken’s death in 1995 nothing has been done to stop the devastation brought about by unwanted, dirty oil extraction in our homeland.

In the 1950s, before Nigeria won independence, Shell was given the right to drill oil. Ken Saro-Wiwa, like me, was from Ogoniland, an area of the Niger Delta which, like many others, was destroyed by the reckless exploitation of international oil companies, in particular Shell. Saro-Wiwa’s tireless campaigning let the international community know about our struggle – the conflict, pollution, loss of livelihood, food and drinking water. Ken also gave us hope by inspiring us to mobilize against the military government and Shell. read more

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