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Groups oppose European Bank’s plan to fund oil drilling in Egypt
Cairo/ Brussels May 27, 2013 On Wednesday 29 May, the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) will vote on whether to make a $40 million loan to Kuwait Energy to drill and extract oil in Egypt. Egyptian and international organisations are pushing the board of the public multilateral bank to reject the loan –…
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Shell AGM: “With patience and saliva the ants devour the elephant”
Just returning from the Annual General Meeting of Shell at Den Haag in the Netherlands – tired but exhilarated by the experience. As with the AGM in 2012 there was a powerful array of civil society groups from all over the world taking the time and devoting the energy to travel to the grey, rain…
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Greenpeace sounds alarm on oil groups after sinking of platform, featuring our report ‘Russian Roulette’
Guy Chazan. Piece made homepage of FT website
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Oil trading scandal ‘unsurprising’ based on BP and Shell’s past record
16 May 2013 Reacting to the unfolding oil price fixing investigations of BP and Shell, Platform oil campaigner Mika Minio-Paluello said: “The scale of the likely market-rigging by BP and Shell is shocking but unsurprising. BP and Shell have a record of making massive profits at the expense of the public by either price-fixing or…
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Russian Roulette: International Oil Company Risk in the Russian Arctic
International Oil Companies (IOCs) face pressure from investors to achieve a positive reserves replacement ratio. With governments around the world increasingly asserting control over natural resources in their territory, as well as conventional oil reserves dwindling, the Arctic is one of the frontier areas targeted by IOCs. In Russia, IOCs have entered a number of…
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Shell and Gazprom sign more documents on Arctic tie-up
Gazprom and Shell signed a new agreement today, under the eyes of Vladimir Putin on his trade mission to Europe. The agreement has been in discussion for a few years; at one point a BP-and-Rosneft style share swap was discussed, but the two companies appear to have settled for a Joint Venture. Together they’ll extract…
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Shell spending millions of dollars on security in Nigeria, leaked data shows
The Guardian – August 19, 2012