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 | Shell hires Bush's environmental adviser
by Terry Macalister, The Guardian
February 5th, 2007
Gale Norton, a former interior secretary for the Bush administration and a supporter of opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other sensitive environmental landscapes for oil production, has taken up a senior legal post at Shell. |
| OIL SPILL AT THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
February 3rd, 2007
Climate activists splatter oil across photo exhibition in outrage at Shell greenwash tactics. Link to photographs of the protest in the article. |
| Shell earns £25,000 every 60 seconds by Widiane Moussa and Eugene Henderson.
by Widiane Moussa and Eugene Henderson, The London Paper
February 1st, 2007
Oil giant Shell today announced record annual profits for a UK listed firm – coining a staggering £25,000 per minute.The Anglo-Dutch company unveiled annual profits of £12.72 billion – up 21 per cent year-on-year – on the back of high oil prices and increased production. However, pocketing £35 million a day didn’t seem to impress chief executive Jeroen van der Veer, who described the figures as only “good”. |
| Campaigners Urge Shell to put Profits into Clean-up
by Terry Macalister, The Guardian (UK)
January 31st, 2007
Record annual profits to be announced by Shell tomorrow should be used towards paying off a bill estimated at more than $20bn (£10bn) for the damage caused by its oil activities to local communities and the wider environment, according to an alliance of human rights and green groups including Friends of the Earth (FoE). |
 | Wildlife 'snappers' to highlight harm done by Shell
by Hannah Griffiths, Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth are calling on wildlife lovers and photographers to submit images that highlight the damage done to wildlife by oil and gas companies, including Shell, to the 2007 Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.
Read how to submit your photographs here! |
| Top prosecutors to press criminal charges over Sakhalin II
Novosti
December 5th, 2006
Russia's environmental watchdog said last month that project operator Sakhalin Energy, controlled by Royal Dutch Shell, is in breach of Russia's environmental regulations, and asked the agency overseeing the use of water resources to consider stripping it of 19 licenses. |
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