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Shell Wins Rights To Iraq's Giant Manjoon Oil Fields

AP | SINAN SALAHEDDIN and TAREK EL-TABLAWY | Posted 12.12.2009 | World

Read More: Total Sa, Petronas, Oil Fields, Manjoon Oil, Opec, Iraq War, National Petroleum Corp. Crude, Oil Auction, Iraq Oil, Malaysia, Manjoon, Shell Oil, Iraq, Shell, World News

BAGHDAD — Iraqi officials cheered and clapped as the first oil field up for bid went to a major international consortium at the opening of the c...

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Business America Lights a Candle for Copenhagen

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 12.01.2009 | Business

There are many in the corporate realm who "get it" -- that's why they're finding new and innovative ways to combat climate change.

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Citi Closing Mastercards Without Warning

msn.com | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Citi, Phillips Conoco, Exxon Mobile, Credit CARD Act, Exxonmobil, L Mastercard, Gas Cards, Citbank, Master Card, Credit Cards, Shell, Citgo, Shell Oil, Banks, Business News

AP - NEW YORK - Shannon Burdette tried to pay with her Shell Mastercard after filling up her gas tank this weekend but found the card rejected. Confu...

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Ken Salazar Questions The Legality Of Bush-Era Oil Leasing Policies

AP | PAUL FOY | Posted 10.20.2009 | Denver

Read More: Gale Norton, Interior Department, Ken Salazar, Oil and Gas Leasing, Justice Department, Shell Oil, George W. Bush, Ken Salazar and Shell, Denver News

SALT LAKE CITY — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called Tuesday for an investigation into last-minute changes made by the administration of Presi...

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Bush-Era Interior Secretary Gale Norton Worked With Shell On Strategy For Controversial 11th-Hour Deals: LA Times

latimes.com | Jim Tankersley and Josh Meyer | Posted 10.16.2009 | Denver

Read More: Shell Gale Norton, Gale Norton, George W. Bush, Department of Interior, Ken Salazar, Oil Drilling, Barack Obama, Shell Oil, Denver News

Reporting from Washington - The Obama Interior Department is reviewing a decision made by the Bush administration in its final days that attempted to...

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Oil Shale Regulations: Judge Grants More Time To Resolve Controversial Bush-Era Rules

The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 11.29.2009 | Denver

Read More: Oil Shale, Gale Norton, Mesa County, Colorado, Department of Justice, Oil Drilling, Ken Salazar, Shell Oil, Denver News

A Colorado U.S. District Court judge has granted an extension until Nov. 16 for federal government attorneys trying to reach a settlement with environ...

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Stealing From California's Young People

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Student Fee Hikes, Prison Spending, CSU Board of Trustees, California State University, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Oil Severance Tax, Senate Republicans, Oil Tax, Exxonmobile, CSU Chancellor Charles Reed, CSU System, California Republicans, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Pay Cuts, Higher Education, California Budget, Shell Oil, Higher Education Cuts, California State Legislature, Tobacco Tax, Teachers, Nurses, Chico State University, Arnold, California Republican Minority, Assemblyman Alberto Torrico, California Faculty Association, President Paul Zingg, California Prisons, Budget Cuts, California Budget Crisis, Furloughs, Cfa, Csu, ab656, Politics News

By blocking any new revenue streams to fund higher education, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Senate Republican minority are not only taxing California's young people and their families, they are crippling the state's future.

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Justice or Just a Step?

Carl Pope | Posted 07.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Nigeria, Superfund, Chevron, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Shell Oil, Green News

Powerful, wealthy global oil companies routinely partner with repressive or corrupt regimes, and then blame the local government or its local partners.

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Shell's Settlement Doesn't Hide Unsettling Reality in Nigeria

Stephen Kretzmann | Posted 07.11.2009 | World

Read More: Royal Dutch Shell, Nigeria, Nigeria Oil, Ogoni-Nigeria, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Niger Delta, Shell Oil, Nigerian Government, World News

Is $15.5 million is enough to compensate for the hanging of nine men, the death of thousands more, and for the destruction of an ecosystem?

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The Free Market's Marked Men, From The Niger Delta To The Amazon

Amy Goodman | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

Read More: Niger Delta, Alien Tort Claims Act, Wiwa v. Shell, Lima, World, World News, Environment, Politics News, Oil Spills, Peru, Peruvian Jungle Interethnic Development Association, Shareholders, Corporate Crime, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Amazon, Human Rights, Alberto Pizango, U.S./Peru Trade Promotion Agreement, Chevron, Africa, Royal Dutch Shell, Oil, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Pollution, Shell Oil, Center for Constitutional Rights, Rainforests, Ken Wiwa, Alan Garcia, Ecuador, Oil Companies, Genocide, Green News, Breaking Politics News, Ogoni, Ptpa, Aidesep, World News

Ken Saro-Wiwa's family and others just won a landmark settlement in U.S. federal court, ending a 13-year battle with Shell Oil. Alberto Pizango's ordeal is just beginning.

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Green News Report - June 9, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Long Beach, Biofuels, Peru Free Trade Agreement, Waxman-Markey, Nigeria Oil, Green News, Green, Chevron, Green News Report, Ethanol, Pollution, Niger Delta, Solar Power, Shell Oil, Green News

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Protesting in Peru; Settling with Shell; Pollution solutions in Long Beach; PLUS: Republicans vow to block climate legislati...

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War for Oil in Nigeria

Stephen Kretzmann | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Nigeria Oil, Ogoni-Nigeria, Nigeria, Oil, Bill Clinton, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Shell Oil, Green News

Nigeria's Government is failing its people, but it is also important to ask why Shell continues to operate in an area where the price of its oil operations is so tragically high.

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Solar Plane, Electric Cars And Oil: Green Winners And Losers (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 06.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Sunseeker II, Daimler, Tesla Motors, Electric Cars, Cars, Dave Burdick, Solar Power, Shell Oil, Green News

More dispatches from Huffington Post Green editor Dave Burdick. In this week's video: The Sunseeker II solar plane video Conversation at HuffPost G...

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Darwin's Lessons for the Extractive Industries

Janet Ranganathan | Posted 06.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Occidental Petroleum, Chevron, Corporate Social Responsibility, Peru, Oil Companies, Shell Oil, Green News

In true Darwinian fashion, the most successful extractive companies are adapting to forces of change by investing in improvements to their environmental and social management systems.

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The Video Shell Doesn't Want You to See

Han Shan | Posted 06.26.2009 | World

Read More: Corporate Crime, Earthrights International, Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Royal Dutch Shell, Shell Oil, Nigeria, World News

Multinational oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has done everything in its power to stop a trial that would require them to answer to charges of human rights abuses.

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The Real Modern Pirates? MNCs Beyond the Rule of Law

Terra Lawson-Remer | Posted 06.24.2009 | World

Read More: Southern District, Corporate Responsibility, Corporations, Nigeria Oil, Nigeria, International Law, Royal Dutch Shell, Shell Oil, Corporate Power, Sdny, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Lawsuit, Niger Delta, Atca, Ats, World News

The most common modern pirates are multinational corporations operating beyond the rule of law. The U.S. can and should take firm measures against this kind of piracy, just as we have against the Somali pirates.

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Vehicle Hydrogen Fuel Cells Killed

Steve Parker | Posted 06.20.2009 | Business

Is there a White House technology double-standard, is it Obama-ish realism or are oil companies lobbying as they must to keep their black gold from turning into clean, abundant hydrogen?

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An Arctic Agenda for Secretary Salazar

Trip Van Noppen | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Alaska, Ken Salazar, Shell Oil, Arctic, Environment, Polar Bears, Climate Change, Oil Drilling, Global Warming, Green News

Here's what the President and Sec. Salazar can do to make a decisive break from the "drill here, drill now" policies of the Bush administration and show Americans a new day has dawned in the Arctic.

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Shell on Trial: After 13 Years, Justice for Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni?

Han Shan | Posted 06.19.2009 | World

Read More: Ogoni People, Africa, Nigeria Oil, Ogoni-Nigeria, Nigeria, Shell Profits, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Oil Companies, Shell Oil, World News

The effort to hold Shell accountable has been a true David & Goliath struggle, with impoverished Nigerian villagers and their scrappy human rights attorneys facing down a multinational oil giant.

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Some Oil Companies are More Eco Friendly: Who's Fuelling Your Summer Drives?

Starre Vartan | Posted 06.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Big Oil, Sunoco, Electric Cars, Exxon Mobil, Oil, Exxon, Exxon Valdez, Shell Oil, Green News

Turns out there's a significant difference in how environmentally-friendly (or not) the oil companies are, and why shouldn't that info impact my decision about where to spend my money.

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Stop the CSR Spin

Stefan Deeran | Posted 01.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Bp, Corporate Social Responsibility, Fortune Magazine, Shell Oil, Csr Consulting, Csr, Green News

A recent corporate social responsibility (CSR) ranking in Fortune magazine reveals one of the many inherent flaws in this burgeoning practice.

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The Most Expensive Gas Station In Chicago?

Chicago Tribune | Eric Zorn | Posted 01.02.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Highest Gas Prices Chicago, Chicago Gas Prices, Shell Mini-Mart, Northwest Side Gas, Shell Chicago, Shell Oil, Chicago Gas, Chicago News

I set out Monday to solve the great gas-price mystery on the Northwest Side. Since the middle of the summer, those who've driven through the intersec...

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Struggling U.S. Shrimpers Look for Vision from Next President

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 11.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Thibodaux, Pesticides, Hurricanes, Louisiana, Golf of Mexico, Obama, Food Safety, Antibitices, Mccain, Shell Oil, Shrimp, Food Supply, Fish Farms, Environment, Usaid, Lafourche, Terrebonne, Home News

A dozen fresh red roses cradled in baby's breath sit on the console of the shrimper "Queen Mary" as she prepares to cast off from the Morgan City D...

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Shell And Iraq Government Agree On Landmark $4 Billion Deal

Financial Times | Ed Crooks and Roula Khalaf | Posted 10.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Iraq Oil, Royal Dutch Shell, Iraq, Shell Oil, Iraq Oil Money, Business News

Royal Dutch Shell is to become the first western oil company to sign a deal with the Iraqi government since the US-led invasion of 2003, agreeing a pl...

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Mr. Bill: "Oh No, Fix the Coast you Broke, Shell Oil!"

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 09.21.2008 | Green

Read More: New Orleans, Gulf Restoration, Public Relations, Message, Oil, Katrina, Wetlands, Green Living, Media, Mr. Bill, Shell Oil, Green News

Meanwhile: Conspiracy Rumors Swirl Around Photo Op An ominous email came in to the sluggo.com listserv, and writers for independent media knew it...

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