Royal Dutch Shell

What Does Shell Have in Common With General Ratko Mladic?

Katie Redford | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, Human Rights, Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, Corporate Responsibility, Royal Dutch Shell, Corporate Social Responsibility, Shell Oil, Business News

What does Royal Dutch Shell have in common with General Ratko Mladic, former commander of the Bosnian Serb army? More than you'd think...

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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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Oil Seeps and Slicks Studied Near BP's Macondo Well

Susan Buchanan | Posted 05.15.2012

Scientists say oil and gas seeps surrounding BP's Deepwater Horizon well appear to be mostly natural and to pre-date the 2010 spill.

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Shell Supports Iran's Murderous Mullahs; Should We Be Supporting Shell?

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Energy, Cnbc, Alaska, Department of the Interior, World, Royal Dutch Shell, Oil, Iran, Neda Agha Soltan, Beaufort Sea, Wall Street Journal, Iran's Mullahs, National Iranian Oil Company, Shell Oil, Business News

The callous greed in the oil patch seems to know no limits. Here we have a company, Royal Dutch Shell, bursting with earnings, at the apogee of its yearly returns, going after the last dollar or Euro to make things fatter still.

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Shell Game

Michael Brune | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Oil, Gas Prices, Arctic, Shell Oil, Royal Dutch Shell, Shell Sierra Club, Sierra Club, Shell Lawsuit, Green News

Shell wants a judge to block challenges to its drilling plans that no one's even made yet. The real message to anyone who believes America's Polar Bear Seas just might not be the smartest place to start drilling oil wells: get out of the way, there's money to be made.

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With Iran, How Hard Do Sanctions Really Bite?

Daniel J. Graeber | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Nuclear Weapons, Opec, Crude Oil, Royal Dutch Shell, Geopolitics, Iran Sanctions, Oil, European Union, Tehran, Iran, Iran Nuclear Program, Oil Embargo, World News

Planned oil embargoes by the European Union could be seen as largely symbolic moves by opponents of the Islamic republic, though it's the pressure on Tehran's finances that appear to be striking the biggest blow.

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Energy Giant Announces Ambitious Oil Discovery Plan

AP | CHRIS KAHN | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Bp, Energy, Rex Tillerson, Gas Prices, Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron Corp., Coal, Video, Crude, Conocophillips, Oil, Oil Prices, Exxon, Natural Gas, Chesapeake Energy Corp., Xto Energy, New York Stock Exchange, Business News

NEW YORK — Exxon said Thursday that it will spend about $150 billion over the next five years to find more oil and natural gas to satisfy the wo...

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'Green News Report' - March 1, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Gas Prices, Green Jobs, Regulation, Green News Report, Pollution, Green Energy, Canada, Climate Scientists, Tar Sands, Video, 2012 Presidential Election, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Climate Science, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Energy, Environmentalism, Subsidies, Water Pollution, BRAD BLOG, Green News, Sustainability, Endangered Species, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Republicans, Agriculture, Arctic Ice Melt, Michael Mann, Coal, Chicago, Tornadoes, Fema, Royal Dutch Shell, Midwest Generation, Utilities, Barack Obama, Shell Oil, Arctic, Dirty Coal, Koch Brothers, Keystone XL Pipeline, Food, Extreme Weather, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: March roa...

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EPA Board Rejects Appeal Of Shell Arctic permit

AP | DAN JOLING | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Energy, Arctic Drilling, Video, Shell Arctic Drilling, Shell Arctic Exploratory Wells, Royal Dutch Shell, Epa, Shell Arctic Permit, Arctic Oil Drilling, Ap, Arctic, Shell Oil, Green News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Royal Dutch Shell's quest to drill exploratory wells in Arctic waters has received a boost with the affirmation that its fe...

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Shell 'Deeply Regrets' Spill, Second Leak Pumps 84 Gallons Of Oil Daily Into North Sea

AP | By TOBY STERLING and MEERA SELVA | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Shell Oil Spill, Oil Spill, Royal Dutch Shell, Royal Dutch Shell Oil Spill, North Sea Oil Spill, Global Pulse, North Sea Shell, North Sea Oil Rig, North Sea, Oceans, Green News

LONDON -- Royal Dutch Shell struggled to contain the worst North Sea oil spill in a decade as well as damage to its credibility Tuesday as a second le...

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U.K.: Hundreds Of Tons Of Oil May Have Leaked Into North Sea

AP | MEERA SELVA and BEN McCONVILLE | Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: Energy, Shell Oil Spill, Royal Dutch Shell, Royal Dutch Shell Oil Spill, North Sea Oil Spill, North Sea Spill, UK Oil Spill, North Sea Oil, Green News

LONDON — Royal Dutch Shell estimated Monday that 54,600 gallons of oil have spilled into the North Sea from an oil rig off Scotland's eastern co...

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Mother Pleads Guilty To Killing Her Denver-Connected Family In Scotland

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Riggu Family Killed, Theresa Riggi Guilty, Scotland Murder, Theresa Riggi, Royal Dutch Shell, Pasquale Riggi, Pasquale Riggi Shell, Denver News

EDINBURGH, Scotland — An American woman living in Scotland on Monday admitted stabbing her three children to death amid a custody battle with th...

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Gasland Attack Group 'Energy In Depth' Funded By Major Oil and Gas Interests

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Josh Fox, Energy in Depth, Bp, Fracking, Royal Dutch Shell, Halliburton, Gasland, Occidental Petroleum, Natural Gas, Chevron, Xto Energy, DeSmog Blog, Anadarko, Green News

Perhaps Energy In Depth thinks it might lose credibility with the media and the public if it revealed such key support from notoriously reckless companies. Perhaps it should.

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Shell Refuses To Pay For Nigeria Oil Spill Pollution

AP | ARTHUR MAX | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Niger Delta Oil, Africa, Environment, Nigeria Oil, Royal Dutch Shell, Nigeria-Shell-Lawsuit, Shell Lawsuit, Shell Oil Spill, Shell Nigeria, Nigeria, Shell the Hague, Niger Delta Oil Spill, Shell Niger Delta, Nigeria Oil Spill, Green News

AMSTERDAM — Royal Dutch Shell executives defended their much-criticized operation in the Niger Delta before Dutch lawmakers on Wednesday but sai...

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Gale Norton: Interior Ethics Probe A Waste Of Money

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Norton Ethics Probe, Gale Norton, Interior Department, Royal Dutch Shell, Gale Norton Probe, Denver News

WASHINGTON — Former Interior Secretary Gale Norton says the Obama administration "wasted millions of taxpayer dollars" in a now closed probe of ...

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Houston Energy Trader May Be 'A One-Woman Enron'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Enron, Petroleum, Stephanie Rae Roqumore, Royal Dutch Shell, Occidental, Houston Energy Trade, Houston Energy Trade Scam, Hess Corp, Business News

HOUSTON (By Anna Driver and Eileen O'Grady) - By the standards of recent financial scandals, Stephanie Rae Roqumore's alleged $6.8 million natural ...

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Shell, Panalpina Near Settlement In Bribery Case, Sources Say

Wall Street Journal | Kara Scannell And Thomas Catan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shell, US Justice Department, Schlumberger, Settlements, Royal Dutch Shell, Bribery Case Panalpina, Business News

A big Swiss shipping and logistics company and Royal Dutch Shell PLC, one of its customers, are close to settling foreign-bribery charges stemming fr...

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Blunder Bosses at BP

Diane Francis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tony Hayward, Bad Public Relations, BP Oil Spill, Royal Dutch Shell, Carl-Henric Svanberg, Public Relations, Exxon Mobil, Media News

The departure of BP's CEO, Tony Hayward, is hardly surprising and long overdue. Its new Chairman, Carl-Henric Svanberg, is likely headed for a pink slip. But their blunders were not just about the catastrophe in the Gulf.

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Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggarman, Thief

Nick Mills | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Niger Delta, Mineral Deposits, Lithium, Royal Dutch Shell, Afghanistan, Oil, Nigeria, Exxon Valdez, World News

When the multi-nationals barge into Afghanistan with their massive earth-moving equipment and begin to scrape the wealth out of the stony Afghan mountains, expect the worst.

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The Oil Nabobs Slouching Towards Iran. Time for a Peoples' Boycott

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iran, Alaska, Bp, Royal Dutch Shell, Saudi Arabia, Oil, Gulf Oil Spill, Wall Street Journal, Total S.A., Green News

Embargoing Iranian oil through governmental or business initiatives could be a highly effective way of dealing with the renegade Iranian regime, and if done thoughtfully, with minimal impact on oil's price.

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ECO:nomics -- Creating Environmental Capital

Jennifer Schwab | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Cap and Trade, T. Boone Pickens, Rio Tinto, Carbon Emissions, Royal Dutch Shell, Venture Capitalists, John Doerr, ECO:Nomics, Energy Bill, Business, Green Energy, Wall Street Journal, Vinod Khosla, Green News

If there is one clear message coming out of the ECO:nomics Conference, it's that we need to assign a price or cost to carbon emissions, and soon.

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Shell Employee List LEAKED: Distributed To Environmental Groups

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shell Employee List Greenpeace, Shell Employee List Leaked, Greenpeace, Royal Dutch Shell, Shell, Shell Oil, Green News

AMSTERDAM — Royal Dutch Shell PLC says a database containing business contact details for many of its employees and contractors has been leaked ...

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What's Up with the Rainforest: Huge Hydroelectric Dam Approved in Brazil's Amazon

James Boyce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Biofuels, Royal Dutch Shell, Rainforest Newsladder, Brazil, Ethanol, Amazon Rainforest, Rainforest Alliance, James Boyce, Cosan, World News

The role of economics is becoming more and more important in the fight for rainforest conservation and protection.

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Umaru Yar'Adua Missing From Public: Nigeria's President Has Not Been Seen In Public Since November 2009

DailyFinance | JONATHAN BERR | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House, Islam, Yemen, Royal Dutch Shell, Terrorism, Nigeria, Obama, US, Abuja, State Department, Nigerian Oil, Flight 253, Umaru Yar'adua, Saudi Arabia, Africa, Oil, Exxon, Chevron, Abdulmutallab, World News

Forget Austin Powers. The real "international man of mystery" is President Umaru Yar'Adua of Nigeria, who has not been seen in public since Nov. 23. Y...

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Bush Oil Buddies Divvy Up Iraqi Oil, Now Joined By "Liberal Scion" Peter Galbraith

Jackson Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, Age of Turbulence, Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell, Kurdistan, Exxon-Mobil, Iraq, Joe Biden, Osama Bin Laden, Ray Hunt, Hunt Oil, Kuwait, John Kerry, Kurds, Desert Storm, Oil, New York Times, Afghanistan, Iraqi Oil, Alan Greenspan, Peter Galbraith, Politics News

Peter Galbraith, son of the famed economist, is in line to reap $100 million dollars -- maybe more -- from contracts between a Norwegian oil company and the autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq.

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