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Shell Centre No 5 in Daily Express “Dirty Dozen” list of most energy-inefficient locations in London

The sovereign’s official London residence topped a list of the environmentally-damaging buildings on the day Prince Charles arrived in Brazil to urge the world to do more to combat global warming.

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Obama surges ahead in the race to be green

BP and Shell have abandoned their investments in renewable energy in Britain, in favour of the United States.

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Will the hoped-for green jobs materialise?

Although BP and Shell have pulled out of the UK offshore market, others such as Masdar, the Abu Dhabi government’s investment vehicle for sustainable energy, moved to fill the gap. Masdar acquired a 20 per cent stake in in the £2bn London Array offshore wind project after Shell walked away.

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Shell WindEnergy leaving Albany County

Now, the Houston company, a unit of Royal Dutch Shell, has mailed letters to landowners it had been negotiating with to say it is walking away from the project.

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Shell’s greenwash sleight of hand

Shell’s sleight of hand was to use the much-abused word “sustainability” to imply a green agenda when what it was really on about was keeping a sustainable flow of fuel out of its forecourt pumps. The ASA cried foul.

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Chatting with Shell About CO2

Jeroen van der Veer, the chief executive of the oil company Royal Dutch Shell, discussed emissions and biodiversity offsets with the IHT’s James Kanter.

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Make a deal with the devil: When Green Becomes Inc.

B.P. paid millions of dollars to settle felony charges with the Justice Department over the pipeline rupture alone and remains on probation until 2010.

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Shell reportedly explores local wind project

Shell WindEnergy has been contacting landowners in the Hill Towns about installing 50 wind turbines totaling 100 megawatts of capacity — enough to power about 25,000 homes…

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CARBON CONTAINMENT: Shell, Tree Canada mark one millionth tree

The planting is part of a program to sequester more than 650,000 tonnes of CO2. In 2000 Shell made a voluntary commitment to reduce or offset greenhouse gas emissions from its oil sands business by 2010.

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The Green Rush: Full transcript of interview with Jeroen van der Veer

I’m always amazed that people think that oil companies they are just for the money and greedy and like to do a lousy job

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