Posts Tagged ‘Greenpeace’

OSLO | Wed Apr 24, 2013 4:20am EDT (Reuters) – Environmental group Greenpeace launched a website on Wednesday seeking to attract whistleblowers from within oil companies to reveal risks with drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic. Greenpeace wants governments to ban oil and gas firms from the fragile Arctic environment. It urged employees [...]

COMMENT BY A REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR SHELL’S MADNESS… Has anyone thought about the implications of a 500m exclusion zone around Shell property in Holland?   This would prevent Greenpeace members from entering a large proportion of the Hague, Rotterdam and Amsterdam, from using motorways and most major roads, or from going near any of the thousands [...]

By John Donovan The Financial Times has published an article under the headline “How Shell was hijacked in ad hoax.“ Extracts It is part of a web campaign jointly orchestrated by environmental group Greenpeace, activist organisation Yes Lab and members of the Occupy Wall Street movement to rally against Shell’s Arctic drilling programme. The digital [...]

Beware: Tools to Create a Faux Ad Campaign Are Cheap and Easy to Use (Credit: Daniel Hixon via Shutterstock/Salon) By: Jonathan Salem Baskin Published: June 18, 2012 The viral video clip looked as if it had been shot at a press conference announcing Shell’s plans for new Arctic drilling. So it was particularly ironic when [...]

Published: June 15, 2012 at 6:35 AM WASHINGTON, June 15 (UPI) — Drilling operations in the arctic waters off the coast of Alaska might be scaled back if there is late ice cover in the region this summer, Shell said. Shell aims to launch a drilling campaign in the coming months in the Beaufort and [...]

By Bellamy Pailthorp Seattle’s Elliott Bay is the epicenter of a global energy fight. The Shell Oil Company has two rigs docked here, the Kulluk and the Noble Discoverer. Also in Elliott Bay is the Greenpeace vessel, Esperanza. As soon as the ice clears, Shell’s rigs will head out for the Arctic. They’ll be the [...]

With a judge ordering its boats to stay away from the oil firm’s Arctic rigs, the anti-drilling organization turns to social media and other means of getting its message out. By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times: June 10, 2012 SEATTLE — One day last week, guests from various engineering and shipping companies around Seattle were [...]

John I hope you and your readers found the Shell Contractor profile to be of interest. Here is a case were a Federal Judge engaged in misconduct in a ruling favoring Shell Oil. Shell Oil Co. v. United States | Justia U.S. Federal Circuit Court of … During World War II, the U.S. contracted with [...]

By Steve Hargreaves @CNNMoney June 8, 2012: 6:47 AM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Greenpeace plans on deploying two submarines to keep tabs on Royal Dutch Shell when the oil company starts drilling in the Arctic, which could begin as soon as next month. The subs, a two-person and a one-person craft, are currently on [...]

Title: A Dachshund and Two Border Collies Play Role in Shell’s Arctic Drilling Plans Royal Dutch Shell is all set to drill exploratory wells in Arctic waters this summer after receiving approval by the federal government back in February. Shell intends to start drilling off the Northwest coast of Alaska in as early as June. [...]

Courthouse News Service By PURNA NEMANI ANCHORAGE (CN) – Shell oil sued 13 leading environmental groups, seeking a Federal Court order declaring it legally authorized to proceed with Arctic Ocean drilling this summer, despite the groups’ complaints. An Anchorage federal judge in March granted Shell a protective order preventing Greenpeace from interfering in Shell’s plans [...]

By Agence France-Presse: Thu, May 03 2012 at 2:37 PM EST Swedish police said they arrested six Greenpeace activists who boarded an icebreaker in the Baltic Sea Thursday in a bid to block plans by Anglo Dutch giant Shell to drill for oil in the Arctic. The activists, who boarded the Finnish icebreaker Nordica, were [...]

Greenpeace Nordic intercepts Shell icebreaker to thwart Arctic drilling May 3, 2012 Öland, Sweden, 3 May 2012 – Greenpeace Nordic activists today intercepted at open sea and boarded a Shell-contracted icebreaker, the Nordica, to continue its protest against the oil major’s destructive plans to start drilling in the pristine Arctic region. At about 04:20 six [...]

Shell’s offshore Alaska drilling program still not a given: Watson Houston (Platts)–1May2012/1245 pm EDT/1645 GMT Despite Shell’s assurances that it hopes to begin its oil drilling program offshore Alaska this summer, US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement Director James Watson pointed out Tuesday that there are still several steps to go in his agency [...]

Greenpeace Says Activists Occupy Shell Icebreaker in Finland By Kari Lundgren – May 1, 2012 1:17 PM GMT+0100 Greenpeace activists occupied a Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) icebreaker in Finland, protesting the company’s plans to drill for oil off Alaska. Twenty activists boarded the Nordica icebreaker this morning and have locked themselves on to the [...]