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Why invest in the future when you can squeeze the last dollars out of the apocalypse?

Well, well, well—look who’s back at it. Shell, the undisputed heavyweight champion of environmental disregard, has once again reminded us that its idea of “transition” involves moving from one yacht to another, not from oil to renewables. Welcome to the age of Big Oil’s “managed decline,” which is just a posh way of saying: we’re scaling down investment in the future so we can keep setting fire to the present more profitably.

Let’s cut through the fossil-fuel fog: Shell, the ultimate sin stock (proudly held by climate-conscience titans like BlackRock), has decided to lower its annual spending target to $20–22 billion through 2028, down from the already-not-exactly-ambitious $22–25 billion. At the same time, it has graciously committed to keeping oil output flat at 1.4 million barrels per day—because what’s good for emissions is good for business, right? read more

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Shell & BP’s “Capital-Light” Climate Hustle: Why Save the Planet When You Can Trade Around It?

Mar 26th, 2025

by John Donovan.

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Hold onto your lungs, folks—Shell and BP are back at it with their latest climate cosplay. Yes, the world’s favorite carbon barons have decided they still kinda want a piece of the “clean energy” pie—not to save the planet, of course, but because it gives them a juicy trading advantage. Welcome to the age of “capital-light” climate action, where you don’t have to build anything meaningful—you just trade electrons and slap a green label on it.

Shell, that bastion of environmental virtue (ahem), is now leaning into what CEO Wael Sawan proudly calls a “capital-light business model” for renewables. Translation: we’ll let other people build the stuff while we swoop in to make money off the volatility. Shell will “make use of project financing where it makes sense and work with partners,” said Sawan at the New York Stock Exchange, presumably while clutching a reusable water bottle for ESG optics. read more

Shell’s “Successful Failure”: Still Failing, But With Even Bigger Bonuses

Mar 26th, 2025

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Courtesy of Global Witness

CEO Wael Sawan says his strategy is working — if you define ‘working’ as slashing renewables, kneeling to Wall Street, and praying the Trump administration sticks around.

Shell — the fossil-fueled titan that never met a barrel of oil it didn’t want to burn — has declared its latest strategy a “successful failure.” Which is corporate code for: We didn’t achieve what we said we would, but we did make rich people richer, so that counts, right?

Two years into CEO Wael Sawan’s so-called “10-quarter sprint” to remake Shell into a leaner, meaner profit machine, the results are in: read more

Shell CEO Bags $11 Million for a Year of Declining Profits and Climate Damage

Mar 25th, 2025

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Wael Sawan gets a raise for overseeing a 16% drop in profit. Meanwhile, the planet’s on fire, and Shell’s investors couldn’t be happier.

Ah, capitalism — where performance is optional, but payouts are guaranteed. Just ask Wael Sawan, Shell’s CEO and proud captain of the SS Planet-Burner, who just walked away with a cool £8.6 million ($11.1 million) pay package for 2024.

That’s up from £7.9 million the year before — because nothing screams “well done” like a 16% drop in profit.

Let’s review the numbers, shall we? Shell reported $23.7 billion in profit for 2024 — down from the year before thanks to (gasp) weaker oil and gas prices and a slight dip in demand. But don’t worry! The board wasn’t going to let something like reality get in the way of a good bonus. read more

Shell to Britain: “Give Us BP or We’re Moving to Wall Street”

Mar 24th, 2025

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Nothing screams patriotic corporate loyalty like threatening to ditch your home country for better tax breaks and oil-soaked handshakes in Trump’s America.

Shell — global climate villain and gold medalist in greenwashing — is once again proving that when you’re Europe’s biggest oil giant, the only thing more bloated than your balance sheet is your ego.

The company is now considering (read: publicly dangling) the idea of delisting from the London Stock Exchange and fleeing to the New York Stock Exchange, where oil executives are still treated like gods instead of environmental pariahs.

Shell CEO Wael Sawan, whose idea of energy transition is “less wind, more gas,” is apparently sick and tired of those pesky British investors not worshipping Shell’s “financial performance” — i.e. record profits extracted from the overheating planet. read more

Shell + BP: The UK’s Favorite Oil Villains and Their Spying Side Hustle

Mar 19th, 2025

by John Donovan.

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Ah, the latest thrilling instalment in the saga of the UK’s most ruthless polluters—Shell and BP! This time, the British government might need one villain to rescue the other. Because when your country’s energy strategy revolves around two corporate behemoths that specialise in environmental destruction, economic extortion, and good old-fashioned espionage (hi, Hakluyt!), what could possibly go wrong?

Let’s start with BP—currently flailing like a fish on an oil-slicked shoreline. After its spectacular failure to pivot from fossil fuels to renewables (who could’ve guessed that wasn’t done in good faith?), BP’s stock is circling the drain. CEO Murray Auchincloss’s brilliant plan to double down on oil and gas has failed to excite investors, and hedge fund shark Elliott Management now holds a 5% stake, sniffing around for a board shake-up and even more brutal cost-cutting.

Meanwhile, rumours abound that BP could be scooped up by an American oil giant or a Gulf national oil company. Because, sure, when a British corporation becomes a liability, the logical move is to sell it to the highest international bidder. And why not? BP still has prime assets worldwide—shale basins in the U.S., Gulf of Mexico drilling, operations in Brazil, the North Sea, and the Middle East, not to mention its trading business and retail brand. Last year, it cranked out 2.36 million barrels of oil per day, generating a cool $8.9 billion in net profit. What’s not to love? read more

Shell’s Bold New Plan: Do Nothing and Keep Cashing In

Mar 19th, 2025

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Investors hoping for something even remotely resembling a conscience will be sorely disappointed.

Ah, Shell—the oil-soaked corporate darling of BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street—has a thrilling new strategy: staying the course and raking in profits while the planet burns. According to RBC, Shell’s upcoming March 24 strategy update isn’t expected to bring any big surprises, because why change a thing when you’re already swimming in billions?

Shell’s grand master plan? More cost-cutting, fewer green investments, and an unwavering commitment to its liquefied natural gas (LNG) empire. Investors hoping for something even remotely resembling a conscience—perhaps divesting from its chemicals division—will be sorely disappointed. RBC thinks that’s unlikely in the short term. Translation: Shell will continue flooding the world with petrochemicals and plastic waste for the foreseeable future. read more

Big Oil’s Supreme Court Tantrum: Shell & Friends Get Smacked Down

Mar 11th, 2025

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Well, well, well. It looks like Shell—along with its equally virtuous partners in climate destruction, Exxon, Chevron, BP, and ConocoPhillips—just took another legal hit. And not just any hit, but a nice, satisfying rejection from the U.S. Supreme Court. That’s right, the highest court in the land just told Big Oil’s fan club (otherwise known as 19 Republican attorneys general) to sit down and stop whining.

These oil-soaked litigators, led by Alabama’s Attorney General Steve Marshall, were trying to shut down climate lawsuits brought by California, Connecticut, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Rhode Island. These states, you see, dared to suggest that oil companies shouldn’t have lied to the public for decades about how burning fossil fuels would set the planet on fire. Telling the truth is still a radical concept in the fossil fuel world.

But let’s be clear: Shell and its industry pals are not about to take responsibility for anything. Because if they did, they might have to dip into the endless cash reserves that keep rolling in thanks to their top-tier enablers—like BlackRock and Vanguard. That’s right, these fine investment giants keep plowing money into Shell’s pockets, ensuring that the oil giant can continue its legacy of pollution, deception, and lobbying for regulatory loopholes. read more

Shell + BP: The Toxic Love Story

Mar 2nd, 2025

by John Donovan.

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Wall Street’s Favorite Polluters Get Cozy, Because Who Needs a Planet Anyway?

BP, ever the corporate chameleon, has decided that even pretending to care about the environment is too much effort. After a brief and laughable flirtation with “green energy,” the oil giant is doing what it does best—doubling down on fossil fuels. And guess who’s cheering them on? None other than Wall Street’s financial overlord, Elliott Management. Because when your primary investors are the same hedge fund sharks who see ethics as an optional extra, saving the planet seems downright unprofitable. read more

Shell + BP: The Merger That No One (Except Greedy Investors) Wants

Feb 21st, 2025

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The rumour mill is churning once again, and this time it’s spitting out an absolute gem: a possible Shell-BP merger. That’s right—two of the most unapologetically polluting, ruthlessly profit-driven oil behemoths are being whispered about in the same breath as “consolidation” and “global energy leadership.” Clearly, what the world needs right now is a bigger super-polluter with even more unchecked power.

Wall Street’s Fantasy, The World’s Nightmare

According to industry chatter, Shell and BP could merge to create a single European oil colossus with a market cap of around $300 billion. The goal? Competing with the likes of ExxonMobil and Chevron—because nothing screams progress like two of the worst climate offenders joining forces to crush the competition. read more

Shell + BP: Because One Greedy, Polluting Oil Giant Just Isn’t Enough

Feb 21st, 2025

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When you thought the oil industry couldn’t possibly consolidate its power and environmental destruction any further, here comes the latest masterstroke of corporate greed: merging Shell and BP into one colossal UK-based oil behemoth. The world needs a single, more powerful sin stock to spew carbon, lobby against climate action, and pad the pockets of shareholders like BlackRock and Vanguard.

Elliott to the Rescue—But Not for You

This little gem of a scheme is being whispered about thanks to Elliott Investment Management, a hedge fund known for its brutal activist tactics. Elliott recently scooped up a nearly 5% stake in BP for a casual £3.8 billion and is now agitating for ‘change’—which in hedge-fund speak means more oil, fewer environmental obligations, and whatever drives the stock price up in the short term. read more

Shell’s Oil Slick Justice For Spilling 1.5 Million Tons of Crude

Feb 21st, 2025

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Shell. The ever-benevolent corporate giant tirelessly works to maximize shareholder returns while generously bestowing oil spills upon communities that never asked for them. The latest twist in this decades-long environmental horror show? The Ogale and Bille communities of Nigeria—just 50,000 people whose land, water, and livelihoods have been poisoned by Shell’s operations—are finally getting their day in a UK courtroom. And naturally, Shell is fighting tooth and nail to avoid paying for the devastation it caused. read more

BP + Shell: The Mega-Merger That Would Create a Greedy, Climate-Wrecking Monster

Feb 16th, 2025

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Because One Oil Giant Destroying the Planet Isn’t Enough!

The City is in meltdown mode over an unfolding crisis: corporate giants abandoning London like rats fleeing a sinking ship.

First, Unilever’s ice-cream business ditches the UK for Amsterdam, and now the vultures are circling BP and Shell for the mother of all oil mergers.

A National Champion or Just a Bigger Corporate Menace?

Shell’s CEO, Wael Sawan, has been whining that his company’s London-listed shares are “undervalued”, strongly hinting that the UK isn’t good enough for him. And now, the talk of the town is whether a merged BP-Shell mega-corp would keep its listing in London—or pack its bags for the land of unchecked corporate greed: Wall Street.

Would a combined BP-Shell keep its primary listing in the UK or move to the US? Well, what do you think? read more

BP + Shell: The Unholy Merger

Feb 15th, 2025

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BP + Shell: The Unholy Merger That Could Create the Ultimate Greed Machine: Because One Corporate Villain Just Isn’t Enough!

What’s worse than one greedy, polluting oil giant hellbent on squeezing every last drop of profit from a burning planet? Two of them merging into a mega-monster that could go toe-to-toe with the world’s worst climate wreckers. That’s right, bankers are reportedly scheming to merge BP and Shell, creating a single British oil behemoth so powerful it could bulldoze past competition and continue its relentless extraction with even less oversight.

Why Merge? Profits Over Planet, Obviously

Top investment bankers, ever eager to engineer disasters for their own financial gain, are eyeing a BP-Shell megamerger to create one national champion of corporate greed. The goal? Compete with other environmental supervillains like ExxonMobil, Chevron, and TotalEnergies—because apparently, the world doesn’t have enough giant oil companies ignoring climate destruction for shareholder returns. read more

Shell and BP: Drowning in Billions While the Planet Burns

Feb 11th, 2025

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Ah, the fossil fuel industry—where record-breaking heatwaves, climate disasters, and widespread energy poverty are just background noise to another year of grotesque profits. Shell and BP have once again proven that they are masters of cashing in on planetary destruction, raking in a staggering £26.2 billion in profits in 2024—more than doublewhat the UK has committed to international climate finance over five years. Yes, you read that right: these two planetary arsonists made more in one year than the UK plans to spend on fixing their mess over half a decade. read more

Shell and BP’s Toxic Love Story: When Greed Meets Greed in the Ultimate Oil Merger Fantasy

Feb 1st, 2025

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Posted by John Donovan: 1 Feb 2025

In the latest corporate soap opera no one asked for, rumours are swirling that Shell—the globe-trotting champion of pollution and climate chaos—might finally shack up with its equally oily cousin, . Apparently, Ed Miliband’s “reckless net zero crusade” (read: trying to save the planet) is just too much for these fossil fuel dinosaurs, and they might just hold hands and ride off into the sunset together, leaving a trail of CO₂ and shareholder dividends in their wake. read more

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