Posts under ‘Fracking’

Shell’s research money is also buying legitimacy for its unconscionable activities globally. These include human rights abuses in the Niger delta, reckless drilling plans in the Arctic, fracking in South Africa, and carbon-intensive tar sands extraction that undermines indigenous rights in Canada. Thursday 9 May 2013 Today sees the launch of a new partnership between [...]

News on Irish oil and gas exploration kindly supplied by a regular contributor ExxonMobil kicks off Irish drilling campaign: Financial Times-But the US oil major and its partners will be hoping to successfully replicate the …. But the field, acquired by Shell, has attracted a wave of local … US explorer Kosmos may spend $200m on Irish wells: Irish Independent-Apr 18, 2013 [...]

Selection of Shell related article links kindly supplied by a regular contributor What If Oil Lasts Forever?: National Journal-Apr 25, 2013: Shell Oil Company’s Deer Park refinery and petrochemical facility by Highway 225 in Deer Park, Texas, Nov. 21, 2007. (AP Photo/David J. Oil Giants Eschew Arctic Drilling: Indian Country Today Media Network-Shell Oil’s drilling unit the Kulluk ran aground, [...]

By 2023, a Changed World in Energy By CLIFFORD KRAUSS: A version of this article appeared in print on April 25, 2013, on page F1 of the New York edition HOUSTON IF you could close your eyes for just a moment like Rip Van Winkle, and blink them open in 2023, you might see a [...]

The group handed out flyers about Shell’s human rights record to audience members, many of whom stopped to listen and applauded at the end of the song.  22nd April 2013 Interval halted at Shell Classic International concert, as ‘Shell Out Sounds’ highlight the sponsor’s human rights record For interviews, photos and film footage, call 07939519963, [...]

A new study in the journal Geology is the latest to tie a string of unusual earthquakes, in this case, in central Oklahoma, to the injection of wastewater deep underground. Researchers now say that the magnitude 5.7 earthquake near Prague, Okla., on Nov. 6, 2011, may also be the largest ever linked to wastewater injection. [...]

Selection of links to Shell related articles kindly supplied by a regular contributor Shell issues oil production warning in Nigeria: Las Vegas Sun-Shell said in a statement Tuesday that it was declaring “force majeure” on shipments of Bonny Light crude oil after it shut down its Nembe … Norway’s Arctic idyll shivers at oil plans: [...]

Pilot wells caused two earthquakes in Lancashire last year and green campaigners warn the method could contaminate the water supply. By Tom Mcghie and Nick Craven Britain is sitting on a £1.5 trillion shale gas bonanza that could be worth more than the remaining North Sea gas. The amount is bigger than previously thought and would [...]

The country is sitting on huge untapped shale gas reserves, and Shell senses opportunity. By AlphaVN.com One of the world’s biggest energy companies, Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.A +0.12%) is planning to invest $1 billion per year in China’s massive shale gas reserves. This natural gas, which has long been considered uneconomical to produce, has in the [...]

Company funds majority of $12.5-million effluent treatment plant, city gets to use leftover water By Gordon Hamilton, Vancouver Sun September 7, 2012 Shell Canada and the city of Dawson Creek have teamed up to build an effluent treatment facility at Dawson Creek that eliminates the oil and gas company’s need for Peace River water at [...]

Energy Minister Dipuo Peters said, “If extraction of the gas can be done safely, let’s go and do it.” Source: South African Government via Bloomberg By Franz Wild and Andres R. Martinez on September 07, 2012 South Africa, which has the world’s fifth-largest shale-gas resources, lifted a moratorium on the exploration of natural gas trapped [...]

6 August 2012 Oil and gas giant Shell made a profit of $162 million from its fields in Taranaki last year, including the huge but ageing Maui and Kapuni gas fields. Shell sold its retail petrol stations in New Zealand in 2010, but it maintains its large and profitable oil and gas production fields in [...]

From: michael wentworth <mikeywentworth@hotmail.com> Subject: Global anti-fracking day rally – Invitation to attend Date: 12 July 2012 10:15:59 GMT+01:00 To: david.r.williams@shell.com Cc: alfred@shellnews.net, lisa.sinagra@shell.com Good morning The 28th of July is Global Ant-Fracking Day and the village of Nieu-Bethesda is hosting a series of events to oppose hydraulic fracturing. At 5pm there will be a [...]

VARIETY OF LINKS SUPPLIED BY A REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR John, Some more links to a variety of information that may be of interest to your readers: Shell Fails To Get Its Arctic Oil Spill Barge Certified By The Coast Guard Shell Oil | ThinkProgress Who is getting bought off by big oil? [PDF] DEEP DRILLING, DEEP [...]

Jul 08 2012 15:00 Francois Williams Cape Town – With all eyes on the long-awaited Cabinet decision on shale gas exploration in the Karoo, environmental groups and politicians were upset last week when they realised Shell was still continuing with its Karoo plans. There is still a moratorium on the awarding of exploration licences and [...]