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		<title>Hunt for Gas Hits Fragile Soil, and South Africans Fear Risks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 07:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Donovan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In July, the Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa, an independent agency that sets guidelines for media companies, ruled that several of Shells advertised claims  including one that said fracking had never led to groundwater contamination  were misleading or unsubstantiated and should be withdrawn. Chris Hayward, a South African farmer, says, &#8220;If our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do shale right, former Shell official says</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Donovan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published: Oct. 4, 2011 at 7:55 AM BERLIN, Oct. 4 (UPI) &#8212; Executives in the energy industry need to invest more in shale gas while advancing environmental issues, an official said from Berlin. The United States is examining its shale gas potential as a way to address energy security issues. European countries like Poland and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benzene Contamination Fears in Roxana Illinois</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 07:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Donovan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maria Keena June 22, 2011 1:54 AM ROXANA, IL (KMOX)  Twenty-five years later, the Village of Roxana Illinois is being tested for known Benzene contamination. In 19-86 nearly nine-thousand gallons of Benzene leaked into the ground from a Shell Refinery pipeline. Connoco Phillips now runs the refinery, but Shell is still assuming the responsibility. Last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benzene Leukemia Personal Injury Case Filed Against Shell and BP</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 10:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Donovan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Dysart Law Firm Announces Benzene Leukemia Personal Injury Case Filed Against Shell Oil Company and BP Products North America Over Benzene Pollution Roxana, IL On June 16, 2011, Scott Monroe, a 20 year old resident of Roxana, Illinois filed a leukemia personal injury lawsuit in the Circuit Court, Third Judicial Circuit, Madison County, Illinois, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shell and BP named in benzene suit</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Donovan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Andrea Dearden The family of a Bethalto woman who died of leukemia blames two Roxana oil refiners for allegedly causing the disease. Jeffrey Ochs, on behalf of his wife Debra Ochs, and the couple&#8217;s daughter filed a lawsuit Jan. 20 in Madison County Circuit Court against Shell Oil Company and BP Products North America [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Groundwater contamination lawsuit settlement costs Shell $46 million</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Donovan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["There is $26 million sitting in J.P. Morgan bank, gathering dust," he said. "All of it is earmarked for the Limestone residents." That amount is separate from another $20 million from Shell for construction of water lines to provide Aqua Illinois service to residents where underground water has been contaminated by chemicals from the gasoline spill in 1988.]]></description>
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		<title>Top court will review who pays for Superfund site</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Donovan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shell Oil Co. and the railroads  the Burlington, Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. and the Union Pacific Railroad Co.  say they are being unfairly tagged with an inordinate portion of the cost of cleaning up the site.]]></description>
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		<title>Shell, Army OK $35M arsenal-pollution settlement</title>
		<link>http://www.royaldutchshellplc.com/2008/05/30/shell-army-ok-35m-arsenal-pollution-settlement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 06:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Donovan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shell Oil and the U.S. Army  which produced all manner of nasty chemicals from 1942 until 1982 at the arsenal, northeast of downtown Denver  have agreed to pay the state $35 million in damages for polluting groundwater at the arsenal, state Attorney General John Suthers said today.]]></description>
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