Posts Tagged ‘Alternative Energy’

Royal Dutch Shell has attacked the “ridiculous” impact of European energy policy, warning that governments are erasing the environmental benefits from expensive renewables by allowing coal use to increase. Europe is burning more coal, while demand for gas – which emits much less CO2 than coal – is declining Photo: GETTY IMAGES By Emily Gosden: 6:03PM [...]

LATEST LINKS TO ARTICLES RECOMMENDED BY “REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR” John, Have you seen this?  Exxon has some of the same problems Shell has regarding ‘risk’ transparency. Where was Shell ?? Russian Arctic Opens to Oil Companies – E, XOM, STO – Foolish … And then there is this article: Exxon (XOM) and Shell (RDS.A, RDS.B) Are [...]

The Times-Standard Posted:   07/10/2012 03:45:33 PM PDT Shell WindEnergy Inc. announced today that the company is opting to exit the Bear River wind project that has been in the works for years. A press release from the company states it’s withdrawing from the project due to “unfavorable market conditions and issues pertaining to the [...]

Shell’s stance on wind power reveals a profound truth of capitalism When pushed to choose between profit and survival, the oil giant chooses profit – irrespective of collective consequence Andrew Simms: Tuesday 1 May 2012 15.52 BST They couldn’t “make the numbers work”. There’s something so blithe – and enormously telling – about the excuse [...]

By Emily Pickrell, HOUSTON CHRONICLE Published Thursday, January 12, 2012 Shell Oil Co. expects to clear remaining regulatory hurdles and begin drilling later this year in the Chukchi Sea near Alaska, company President Marvin Odum said at a scientific conference on Thursday. Shell received conditional federal approval last month to drill six exploratory wells in the [...]

Updated: 2011-11-09 By Peter Voser (China Daily) Coordinated global response is needed to meet challenge of providing more energy for more people and cutting CO2 Our world reached a significant milestone on Oct 31 when a mother gave birth to the Earth’s 7 billionth inhabitant. At this rate, the Earth will be home to more [...]

New ways to extract oil and natural gas could buy the U.S. some time to develop renewable energy. Or they could keep us addicted to dirty fuels. INTRODUCTION For renewable energy, even the successes can reveal how much work remains to be done: huge amounts of hydroelectric and wind power in the Pacific Northwest sometimes [...]

BUSINESS CHINA 11 Oct 2011 5 Questions with Shell CEO Peter Voser Q. At SIEW 2011, you will be speaking on the future of energy. Can you provide us with a sneak preview on where you see the future of energy? A: The global energy system is in the early stages of a historic transformation. [...]

Published: Sept. 23, 2011 at 8:22 AM BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei, Sept. 23 (UPI) — Natural gas resources will help fuel economic growth in Asia, where advances are vastly outpacing the rest of the world, a Shell executive said. Malcolm Brinded, executive director for upstream developments at Shell, spoke to delegates at an energy conference [...]

In a 2009 report on Brazil, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, mister James Anaya, wrote that Mato Grosso do Sul “has the highest rate of indigenous children’s death due to precarious conditions of health and access to water and food, related to lack of [...]

Shell says it would invest billions of dollars in the development of a Karoo gas field in the event that it got the go- ahead to drill and if its exploration of the area proved fruitful LINDA ENSOR Published: 2011/09/02 06:49:50 AM CAPE TOWN — Shell would invest billions of dollars in the development of [...]

By James Paton – Jun 15, 2011 10:30 AM GMT+0100 Australia should introduce a cap- and-trade system to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and act “earlier rather than later” to tackle climate change, Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) said. “The clock is ticking,” Ann Pickard, chairman of Shell’s operations in Australia, said today in a speech in [...]

Industry urging governments and business to reject renewables in favour of ‘green’ shale gas Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent, Wednesday 20 April 2011 17.24 BST Pipes at a natural gas drilling site near Montrose, Pennsylvania. Photograph: Daniel Acker/Getty Images Senior executives in the fossil fuel industry have launched an all-out assault on renewable energy, lobbying governments [...]

Fiona Harvey April 23, 2011 SENIOR executives in the fossil fuel industry have launched an all-out assault on renewable energy, lobbying governments and business groups to reject wind and solar power in favour of gas, in a move that could choke the green energy industry. Multinational companies including Shell, GDF Suez and Statoil are promoting [...]

At the heart of the shale gas ‘sell’ is the industry’s analysis of a European Climate Foundation report – an analysis ECF rejects Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent: Wednesday 20 April 2011 20.49 BST A natural gas wellhead near Montrose, Pennsylvania. Photograph: Daniel Acker/Getty “You just wouldn’t believe you could get gas out of that, would [...]