Royal Dutch Shell

What Does Shell Have in Common With General Ratko Mladic?

Katie Redford | Posted 05.23.2012

Katie Redford

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

Environmental Groups Push Back Against Shell Arctic Permits

AP | DAN JOLING | Posted 05.17.2012

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

Oil Seeps and Slicks Studied Near BP's Macondo Well

Susan Buchanan | Posted 05.15.2012

Susan Buchanan

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

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

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 04.02.2012

Raymond J. Learsy

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.

Shell Game

Michael Brune | Posted 05.14.2012

Michael Brune

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.

With Iran, How Hard Do Sanctions Really Bite?

Daniel J. Graeber | Posted 05.11.2012

Daniel J. Graeber

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.

Energy Giant Announces Ambitious Oil Discovery Plan

AP | CHRIS KAHN | Posted 05.08.2012

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...

'Green News Report' - March 1, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.01.2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

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...

EPA Board Rejects Appeal Of Shell Arctic permit

AP | DAN JOLING | Posted 03.14.2012

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...

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

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...

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

AP | MEERA SELVA and BEN McCONVILLE | Posted 10.15.2011

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...

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

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Brendan DeMelle

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.

Shell Refuses To Pay For Nigeria Oil Spill Pollution

AP | ARTHUR MAX | Posted 05.25.2011

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

Gale Norton: Interior Ethics Probe A Waste Of Money

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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

Posted 05.25.2011

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

Shell, Panalpina Near Settlement In Bribery Case, Sources Say

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

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...

Blunder Bosses at BP

Diane Francis | Posted 05.25.2011

Diane Francis

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.

Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggarman, Thief

Nick Mills | Posted 05.25.2011

Nick Mills

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.

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

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Raymond J. Learsy

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.

ECO:nomics -- Creating Environmental Capital

Jennifer Schwab | Posted 05.25.2011

Jennifer Schwab

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.

Shell Employee List LEAKED: Distributed To Environmental Groups

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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

James Boyce | Posted 05.25.2011

James Boyce

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

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

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...

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

Jackson Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Jackson Williams

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.