The U.S. Supreme Court shouldn’t give corporations a pass in human rights cases involving foreign victims. March 1, 2012 If foreign victims of human rights abuses can use U.S. courts to seek justice from their tormentors, it shouldn’t matter whether they were mistreated by an individual or a corporation. But the Supreme Court was urged [...]
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LA TIMES EDITORIAL: OIL AND THE ARCTIC MIGHT NOT MIX
A family of polar bears on the Beaufort Sea, where Shell plans to drill for oil and gas. One of the remaining obstacles for the oil company is the plan’s potential effect on polar bears in the region. (Reuters) August 10, 2011 Shell Oil’s proposal to drill three exploratory wells in the Beaufort Sea off [...]
Is Arctic drilling safe? Scientists aren’t sure
June 24, 2011 Escalating oil prices and diminishing supplies around the world are focusing more attention than ever on the vast petroleum reserves under the Arctic seabed, and in the relatively pristine shoreline areas of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.The Obama administration is moving to speed up drilling where possible, [...]
Shell proposes to move forward in Beaufort Sea
October 6, 2010 | 8:56 pm With the BP oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico successfully contained, Shell Alaska announced that it has filed an application to proceed with exploratory offshore drilling in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska. The Obama administration suspendedall offshore operations in the remote, fragile Arctic seas this year in the [...]
Former FBI chief defends flow of money to Saudi ambassador
Excerpts: Freeh said that a 1985 treaty between Britain and Saudi Arabia allowed the trade of oil for weapons. BAE signed an $86-billion contract with the Saudis under the provisions of the treaty, and the funds that flowed between Britain and the Bandar-controlled bank accounts in the U.S. may have come from the sale of Saudi oil under the terms of the contract. “We did not invent corruption,” Prince Bandar bin Sultan tells Bergman. “This has happened since Adam and Eve. . . . This is human nature.”
Controversy boils at idled refinery: Accusation against Shell Oil by union and consumer activists
Shell Oil Co. is putting the squeeze on a financially troubled Bakersfield refinery it sold in 2005 to Big West Oil, which could lead to the closing of the operation and potentially higher gasoline prices for California motorists, according to consumer activists and a union representing plant workers.
Appeals court rules against Arctic drilling plan
“The U.S. faces an energy supply crisis, and delays like this only extend and aggravate it. In times of shrinking global supply and ever increasing reliance on imported oil, the Alaska offshore could be a significant resource for national energy security,” Shell said in a statement.
Oil and politics
Washington’s fear and confusion over high gasoline prices has come to this: Democratic Party leaders, who have dismissed Republican calls to end the federal ban on offshore oil drilling as a political stunt, have suddenly decided it may not be such a bad idea after all.
Cheney’s office tried to alter greenhouse gas testimony, former official says
WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney’s office worked to alter sworn congressional testimony provided by a federal official in order to play down the threat of global warming and head off regulation of greenhouse gas emissions, a former government official said in a new accusation Tuesday.
Levy is needed on oil profit windfalls
From The Los Angeles Times: It seems quaint to think of it now, but it was only three years ago that lawmakers in Washington were debating whether to impose a windfall profits tax on the oil industry for all oil sold above $40 a barrel.
Shell Group Parent Cos. to Trade As 1 Stock
Los Angeles Times: Shell Group Parent Cos. to Trade As 1 Stock 19 May 2005 By Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The two parent companies of multinational oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell Group said Thursday they will trade as a single stock, Royal Dutch Shell PLC, from July 20. The Hague-based Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. [...]
Los Angeles Times: Texaco Aims to Regain Star Status in U.S.
Los Angeles Times: Texaco Aims to Regain Star Status in U.S. 2 May 2005 By James F. Peltz, Times Staff Writer Odd as it sounds, the U.S. arm of ChevronTexaco Corp. is getting back into the business of Texaco. The Texaco brand of gasoline had withered in the U.S. market since 2001, when [...]
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