Posts on ‘May 8th, 2007’

Posted by WSJ.com Staff May 8, 2007, 12:16 pmGeneral Motors has joined the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a group of companies calling for a mandatory cap on greenhouse-gas emissions.  GM is the first auto maker to join the group, which added several other new members today, including oil giant ConocoPhillips, Royal Dutch Shell’s U.S. subsidiary, [...]

May 8, 2007, 3:03PM © 2007 The Associated Press LONDON — Royal Dutch Shell PLC Chief Executive Jeroen van der Veer, angered by the high level of casualties at the company in 2006, has made the issue a priority this year, according to the company’s annual sustainability report issued Tuesday. A total of 37 workers [...]

By Ben Moshinsky  8-May-2007  Shell has been accused of ignoring the rule of law in Nigeria, with one of the company’s own former lawyers leading the legal fight. Peter Roderick was a lawyer at Shell between 1985 and 1991 and is now the co-director of the Climate Justice Programme at environmental charity Friends of the [...]

Associated Press 05.08.07, 4:00 PM ET Royal Dutch Shell PLC Chief Executive Jeroen van der Veer, angered by the high level of casualties at the company in 2006, has made the issue a priority this year, according to the company’s annual sustainability report issued Tuesday. A total of 37 workers for Shell, most of them [...]

Updated: 12:37 p.m. ET May 8, 2007 DETROIT – General Motors Corp. on Tuesday became the first automaker to join a business coalition dedicated to reducing greenhouse gas emissions that are tied to global warming. The nation’s biggest automaker joined the United States Climate Action Partnership along with 13 other newcomers including Dow Chemical Co. [...]

EXTRACT: The acquisition of 50 percent plus one stock in Sakhalin Energy Investment Co. for $7.45 billion accounted for much of the value of deals in that sector.   May 08, 2007 The M&A Intelligence analytical group has calculated the volume of merger and acquisition deals that included Russian companies in the first quarter of the year. [...]

Primary Anti-Government Group Claims Attacks, Terminal Exports 200,000 Barrels Per Day LAGOS, Nigeria, May 8, 2007 CBS/AP) The main militant group in restive southern Nigeria said Tuesday that it has bombed three major oil pipelines. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta said in a statement from an e-mail address frequently used by [...]

Tue May 8, 2007 4:32 PM IST   LONDON (Reuters) – An environmental group said on Tuesday it would file complaints to three European regulators about a Royal Dutch Shell Plc advertisement that says the oil major uses waste CO2 to help grow flowers. Friends of the Earth Europe said Shell advertising that its Pernis [...]

By Julie Ziegler and Mathew Carr May 8 (Bloomberg) — Three pipelines operated by a unit of Eni SpA and an export terminal in the Nigerian state of Bayelsa were shut down after an attack by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta. The attacks closed the Brass export terminal, a facility run [...]

A Turkish oil company would be violating international law if it went ahead with plans to explore for hydrocarbons in a sea area already claimed by Cyprus, the island’s energy minister said on Tuesday. The company, TPAO, has opened a tender for seismic studies on a 4,000 km (2,485 mile) area in the Mediterranean, apparently [...]

Judy Hua HONG KONG 08-May-07 CHINA POWER INTERNATIONAL, helmed by the daughter of former Premier Li Peng, plans to spend up to US$4 billion by 2010 developing renewable energy as Beijing pushes to clean up its air and water and whittle down its reliance on imported resources. To help bankroll the investment one of the [...]

Total SA needs 4,000 workers for bitumen upgrader near Edmonton DAVID EBNER May 8, 2007 CALGARY — Total SA took the first step yesterday toward building a multibillion-dollar bitumen upgrader near Edmonton, a construction project that will require 4,000 workers – about what it took to build the iconic Hoover Dam. Huge oil sands projects [...]

8th May, 2007: Shell: Meeting the Energy Challenge Sustainably Royal Dutch Shell has released its tenth report on its environmental and social performance. The Shell Sustainability Report 2006 www.shell.com/envandsociety describes the company’s efforts to help meet the global energy challenge: providing more energy to raise living standards; keeping energy supplies secure; and doing both in [...]

2007-05-08 09:13:53 LONDON (Thomson Financial) – Royal Dutch Shell and BP PLC’s Russian joint venture TNK-BP are preparing bids for one of the last remaining assets of bankrupt oil giant Yukos, including around 500 gas stations, Russian dailies Vedomosti and Kommersant reported.

Tuesday, 08 May 2007  Áine Ryan THE GARDA Ombudsman Commission is due to begin work tomorrow, May 9, on a series of complaints about Garda behaviour over recent months during clashes at the proposed Corrib gas refinery in Bellanaboy. The Garda Complaints Board has confirmed that three senior officers will investigate the 16 complaints, filed [...]