Posts under ‘Climate Change’

By Jim Snyder – Sep 18, 2012 6:13 PM GMT+0100 Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA)�s decision to abandon oil drilling in Alaska�s Arctic waters this year underscores the risks of working in harsh maritime conditions, environmentalists said. �We think it�s crazy,� said Niel Lawrence, senior attorney for the New York-based Natural Resources Defense Council, which [...]

Shell has reputedly invested almost $5bn in its Arctic projects. It suffered a major setback at the weekend after a huge containment dome designed to corral any Arctic spill broke down under trials. Shell abandoned drilling for the winter. By Roger Harrabin Environment analyst: 20 September 2012 Last updated at 02:21 A committee of MPs [...]

Oil chief dismisses fears of another Gulf spill after huge floe forces drill ship to move Terry Macalister, energy editor: Sunday 16 September 2012 17.51 BST The man at the centre of Shell’s controversial drilling programme in the Arctic has said he is aware of the responsibility on his head but is convinced the Anglo-Dutch [...]

Documents reveal concerns ahead of fall public hearings into northern Alberta mine expansion The Canadian Press: Posted: Aug 27, 2012 12:18 PM ET A demonstration tailings pond in Shell’s Muskeg River oilsands mine in northern Alberta. The company’s ability to store the byproducts of oilsands extraction in a manner that doesn’t harm the environment is [...]

Week of August 19, 2012: Vol. 17, No.34 Shell continues to delay drilling, waiting for containment barge Although Shell has sent three of the vessels from its Arctic drilling fleet north to the Chukchi Sea, in preparation for its planned outer continental shelf exploratory drilling, the company�s drilling program remains on hold, waiting for the [...]

Jim Coburn, JD | Aug 08, 2012 Shell Oil’s spill response gear staged in Wainwright. Summer 2011. Ben Anderson photo Just two years after BP�s Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, another oil industry giant is poised to begin drilling in an even more forbidding, unpredictable and remote environment: the Alaskan shoreline.Shell [...]

A version of this editorial appeared in print on July 30, 2012, on page A18 of the New York edition Last month, the State Department formally invited public comment on the issues it should consider in a new environmental assessment of the Keystone XL, a 1,200-mile pipeline that would connect the Alberta oil sands to [...]

FROM OUR JULY 2004 SHELL NEWS ARCHIVE… A FORTUNE MAGAZINE ARTICLE REPUBLISHED IN THE NOW DEFUNCT NEWSPAPER: THE BUSINESS HOW FORTUNES HAVE CHANGED FOR BP SINCE 2004. THE SUN KING RESIGNED IN DISGRACE AND BP HAS SUFFERED DEBACLES IN THE GULF OF MEXICO AND RUSSIA. THE ARTICLE: The new king of the oil patch Lord [...]

FROM A REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR John The following link provides access to information and graphs that may be of interest to some of your readers. PDF] �The End of Oil� It shows, for example that it took almost 150 years for the world to produce and consume its first trillion bbls of oil. Today, at current [...]

By Edward Klump – Jul 11, 2012 8:52 PM GMT+0100 Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA), Europe�s biggest oil company, received conditional approval from Alberta�s energy regulator for a carbon capture and storage project planned north of Edmonton. A panel concluded it�s in the public interest for Shell�s Quest project to move ahead, Alberta�s Energy Resources [...]

John, Here is an article that I think your readers will find interesting. It is a frequently asked question. RealClimate: How do we know that recent CO2 increases are due to … Related… Study suggests rising CO2 in the past caused global warming This article tracks the increase in atmospheric CO2 for the last 50 [...]

May 24, 2012: 9:19 AM ET This summer, the energy giant will begin exploring off the icy coast of Alaska — after years of resistance by environmentalists. The payoff could be the largest U.S. offshore oil discovery in a generation. By Jon Birger, contributor In Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost city in the U.S., it’s hard [...]

by Dan Joling / Associated Press: May 16, 2012 ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Environmental and Alaska Native groups on Wednesday appealed an air permit granted by the Environmental Protection Agency to a Shell Oil drilling ship that could be used this summer in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska’s northern shore. The groups claim the Kulluk and [...]

Shell’s stance on wind power reveals a profound truth of capitalism When pushed to choose between profit and survival, the oil giant chooses profit � irrespective of collective consequence Andrew Simms: Tuesday 1 May 2012 15.52 BST They couldn’t “make the numbers work”. There’s something so blithe � and enormously telling – about the excuse [...]

Professor Andrew Watterson, the head of the occupational and environmental health research group at the University of Stirling, accused companies of playing down “the potentially catastrophic consequences” of gas and oil leaks. “ Karrie Gillett: MONDAY 09 2012 Sixty-nine oil and chemical spills in the North Sea have been reported in three months. Eighteen companies [...]