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Environmental Groups Push Back Against Shell Arctic Permits

AP | DAN JOLING | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Arctic Drilling, Epa Air Permits, Shell Arctic Drilling, Shell Kulluk Ship, Royal Dutch Shell, Shell Kulluk Air Permit, Shell Arctic, Shell Alaska, Alaska, Shell Air Permit, Shell, Alaska Oil, Shell Oil, Video, Green News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Environmental and Alaska Native groups on Wednesday appealed an air permit granted by the Environmental Protection Agency t...

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Court Weighs New Gulf Drilling Plans

AP | GREG BLUESTEIN | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Gulf Drilling, Energy, Shell Alabama Offshore Drilling, Alabama, Video, Shell Gulf Offshore Drilling, Shell Gulf Drilling, Alabama Offshore Drilling, Gulf Offshore Drilling, Shell, Shell Oil, Green News

ATLANTA -- Environmental groups urged an appeals court on Wednesday to block Shell from drilling 10 new deep-water wells off Alabama's coast, arguing ...

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Congress, Make Shell Spill Ketchup in the Arctic Before They Drill

Terry Gardner | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Environment, Oil Drilling in the Arctic, Alaska, President Obama, Barrow, Shell, Arctic-Wildlife-Refuge, Green, Congress, BP Oil Spill, Video, Green News

So whether you are rooting for polar bears, whales, us or the earth, what's the harm in the U.S. government demanded that Shell prove it can clean up a spill? If there's a problem, any spill will make the Exxon Valdez or BP oil spills look like minor mishaps.

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Shell Arctic Spill Response Plan Approved

AP | DAN JOLING | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Energy, Shell Arctic Spill Response Plan, Arctic Drilling, Video, Shell Arctic Drilling, Shell Arctic, Shell Arctic Exploration, Arctic Oil Spill, Shell, Offshore Drilling, Shell Oil, Green News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Federal offshore drilling regulators on Wednesday approved Shell Oil's spill response plan for exploratory drilling in the ...

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A Dangerous Gamble in the Arctic

Bill Meadows | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Oil, Oil Spill, Repsol, Arctic Ocean, Arctic Drilling, Oil Drilling, Shell Oil, Alaska, Shell, Alaska Drilling, Green News

The Arctic recently sent a strong warning that hubris has no place in one of the world's most challenging, high-stakes environments. Shell Oil, which is ready to take a dangerous drilling gamble in the Arctic's icy waters, should take note.

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Refinery Murder Mystery

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.19.2012

As fuel prices rise, companies like Sunoco and ConocoPhillips are closing the very facilities essential for producing fuels. It raises the question: why would corporations do that?

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Partnering With Oil Co. To Save Island?

AP | RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Video, Shamrock Island, Shell Oil Nature Conservancy, Nature Conservancy, Shell, Oil Companies, Ap, Shell Oil, Green News

ARANSAS PASS, Texas (AP) — An eroding Texas island where more than 20,000 birds nest in scraggly trees and on a narrow patch of sand will be built b...

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When Big Business and Human Rights Collide

Ka Hsaw Wa | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Human Rights, Kiobel vs Royal Dutch Petroleum, Corporations, Myanmar, Burma, Supreme Court, Doe vs Unocal, Human Rights Abuse, Shell, World News

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court justices will consider whether the U.S. will become a haven for companies that are allegedly complicit in the most heinous crimes or whether it will continue to provide a legal forum for accountability and justice.

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Lucy Lawless Arrested In Oil-Drilling Ship Protest

AP | NICK PERRY | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Lucy Lawless Arrested, Xena Warrior Princess, Bunny McDiarmid, New Zealand, Noble Discoverer, Shona Geary, Rob Jager, Shell, Greenpeace, Greenpeace New Zealand, Lucy Lawless, Xena, Lucy Lawless Arrest, Lucy Lawless Greenpeace, Green News

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Police on Monday arrested actress Lucy Lawless and five Greenpeace environmental activists after the group spent four ...

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Shell Wins Approval Of Arctic Spill Response Plan

AP | DAN JOLING | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Energy, Shell Arctic Spill Response Plan, Chukchi Sea Drilling, Video, Shell Arctic Drilling, Arctic Oil Spills, Shell Offshore Drilling, Shell, Ap, Shell Chukchi Sea, Green News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Shell Oil cleared one of the last remaining hurdles to Arctic offshore drilling Friday as the federal government said it ha...

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Arctic Oil Drilling Threatens Polar Bear Birthing Grounds

Rocky Kistner | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Polar Bears, Porlar Bear, Oil Drilling, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Arctic, Video, Oil Pollution, Shell Oil Drilling, Shell, Shell Drilling, Green News

Should we believe the industry that brought us Exxon Valdez and the Deepwater Horizon that oil blowouts can be contained and controlled in the frigid oceans of the arctic?

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The Niger Delta Problem: Can It Be Resolved this Decade?

Atim Oton | Posted 01.26.2012

Read More: Nigeria Oil, Nigeria, Jonathan Goodluck, Mobil Oil, Niger Delta, Boko Haram, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Shell, Black Voices News

I was born in the Niger Delta, and lived in the Niger Delta in Nigeria until I came to the U.S. In some ways, I can be considered a child of big oil -- Mobil Oil -- to be specific. But I own no oil fields and none of my family works in the oil sector.

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Trimming Astroturf From the American Petroleum Institute's 'Vote 4 Energy' Ad

Philip Radford | Posted 03.09.2012

Read More: Bp, Energy Citizens, Keystone XL Pipeline, American Petroleum Institute, Vote 4 Energy, Shell, Greenpeace, Executives, Tar Sands, Commercial, Big Oil, Exxonmobil, Chevron, Astroturf, Jack Gerard, Green News

Americans are clearly too smart to be faked out by Big Oil's phony grass roots strategies. Vote 4 yourself, not oil executives.

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Oil Companies Powned in Epic Switcheroo Operation [Video]

Kevin Grandia | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Jon Burgwald, Bp, Conocophillips, Shell, Green News, Sustainability, Yes Men, Arctic Oil Spill, Greenpeace, Statoil, Nunaoil, Video, Green News

Environment campaigners duped representatives of major oil companies into attending a meeting about the harsh realities of offshore oil drilling, instead of their intended meeting with Greenland officials to talk about opening up Northern seas to drilling.

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$39 Billion, Just the Tip of the $20 Trillion Oil Iceberg

Jigar Shah | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Energy, Rome-Based Eni SpA, Total, Renewable Energy, Exxon, Oil Drilling, Shell, Caspian Sea, Oil Rig, Oil, Colorado River, KazMunaiGaz National Co., Kazakhstan, Kashagan, Gizitdinov, Green News

Our energy needs are in conflict are out of synch with natural systems. In the case of the Caspian Sea's $39 billion oil-drilling project, here are some facts.

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Iraq Takes Major Step Toward Developing Natural Gas

AP | By SINAN SALAHEDDIN | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Energy, Iraq Shell, Video, Mitsubishi Iraq, Iraq Natural Gas, Iraq Mitsubishi, Natural Gas Drilling, Natural Gas, Mitsubishi, Iraq, Shell, Shell Iraq, Shell Oil, Business News

BAGHDAD -- Iraq on Sunday signed a multibillion-dollar deal with Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Japan's Mitsubishi Corp. to tap natural gas in the south, o...

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Court To Hear Bid To Sue Shell For Nigerian Abuses

AP | By MARK SHERMAN | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Shell Human Rights Abuses, Video, Shell Nigeria, Shell Supreme Court, Nigeria, Nigeria Human Rights, Shell, Shell Oil, U.S. Supreme Court, Business News

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court said Monday it will use a dispute between Nigerian villagers and oil giant Royal Dutch Shell to decide whether corpora...

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Shell Fighting Oil Leak In North Sea

AP | Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: Shell Oil Leak, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Scotland, Scotland Oil Leak, Environment, North Sea, Shell, North Sea Oil Leak, Shell Oil, World News

AMSTERDAM -- Royal Dutch Shell PLC said Friday it is trying to stop oil leaking from a flow line at one of its drilling platforms in the North Sea off...

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Recession? What Recession? Oil Profits Boom Amid The Gloom

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 09.28.2011

Read More: Bp, Gas Prices, High Gas Prices, Stock Buybacks, Big Oil, Conocophillips, Oil Subsidies, Exxon Mobil, Big Oil Subsidies, Chevron, Big Oil Profits, Shell, Oil Industry Profits, Business News

WASHINGTON -- The sputtering economy, high unemployment rate and punishing gas prices are taking a huge toll on average Americans, but at least somebo...

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MIT's Fracking Report Backs Its Donors: Gas Companies

Wenonah Hauter | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Energy, Bp, Mit, Fracking, Shell, Chesapeake Energy, Natural Gas, Conflict of Interest, Research, Energy Research, Green News

I almost gagged on my coffee when I finally got around to reading the corporate sponsored pro-fracking propaganda by MIT on natural gas. Isn't this academic institution embarrassed to sell its reputation to corporations?

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Ecuador's El Oriente -- Another Paradise Lost?

Dorian de Wind | Posted 08.07.2011

Read More: Environment, Ecuador, Oil Industry, Amazon Rainforest, Ecology, Biodiversity, Chevron, Shell, Texaco, ITT Initiative, Ecuador-President-Rafael-Correa, Oriente, World News

Underneath the lush Ecuadorean rain forest lie some of the country's largest oil deposits, Ecuador's principal export and one of its most important sources of revenue -- a resource that has been both a blessing and a curse

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A Beacon for a Green Future

Andy Atkins | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Tesco, David Cameron, England, Friends of the Earth, Climate Change, Green Industry, Emissions, Shell, Green News

It's refreshing to see the UK step in and re-establish international leadership on climate change. The target to halve our emissions by 2025 is the most ambitious in the world.

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WATCH: The Biggest Floating Object Ever

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Energy, Biggest Floating Object Ever, Shell Prelude Flng Project, Video, Largest Floating Object, Shell Prelude Flng, Shell, Biggest Floating Object, Prelude Flng, Green News

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Royal Dutch Shell PLC will construct the biggest floating man-made object ever, a natural gas processing plant longer than four foo...

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Don't Get Fueled Again

Donnie Fowler | Posted 07.13.2011

Read More: Gas Prices, Mitch McConnell, Bp, Clean Coal, John Boehner, www.cheapergas.us, Oil Prices, Environmentalism, Exxon, Joe Barton, Fred Upton, Chevron, Koch Brothers, Shell, Big Oil, Green News

It's deja vu all over again. Big Oil charges us record prices at the pump, gleefully takes welfare payments (our tax dollar subsidies) and then blames someone else for the problem.

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Democratic Senator Calls Big Oil Execs Selfish, Unfeeling -- And Unbeatable

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Oil and Gas Subsidies, Bp, Video, Jay Rockefeller, Oil Industry, Oil and Gas Industry, Conocophillips, Oil Subsidies, Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Shell, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The unapologetic -- indeed combative -- testimony on Thursday by top oil executives summoned to defend multi-billion tax subsidies for t...

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