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Alaska offshore drilling: Murkowski says Interior Dept. decision ‘short-sighted’

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Murkowski blames Obama Administration for Alaska offshore drilling future lease sales cancelled Late last week the Interior Department announced it is cancelling future lease sales and will not extend current leases in Arctic waters off Alaska’s northern coast. Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski calls the decision “short-sighted” and says the move betrays the Interior Department’s commitments to Alaska […]

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Massive expansion of Shell hydrogen fuelling pumps network in Germany

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Shell opened its first hydrogen fuelling station in Germany in 2011 Royal Dutch Shell announced plans to add hundreds of hydrogen fuelling pumps at German retail sites, building the company’s nationwide network to 400 fuelling points in eight years. Working with its H2 Mobility Germany partners and the country’s federal transportation minister, Shell says the proposed network should be complete by

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Feds OK Arctic Ocean offshore drilling: First time in 20 plus years

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Shell granted final permit for Arctic Ocean offshore drilling ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The federal government on Monday gave Royal Dutch Shell the final permit it needs to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska’s northwest coast for the first time in more than two decades. The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement announced that it

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Coast Guard fines Greenpeace activists for Arctic drilling protests

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Greenpeace protestors fined for interfering with safe operations of a vessel PORTLAND, Ore. – Five Greenpeace protesters who tried to stop a Royal Dutch Shell icebreaker from leaving Portland, Oregon, for an Arctic oil-drilling operation have been fined $5,000 apiece by the Coast Guard. The icebreaking vessel Fennica arrived in Portland last month for repairs. When the

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Shell permitted for limited Alaska offshore oil exploratory drilling

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Alaska offshore oil exploration in Chukchi Sea WASHINGTON – The Obama administration has given Royal Dutch Shell PLC approval to begin limited exploratory oil drilling off Alaska’s northwest coast. The two permits issued Wednesday clear the way for drilling in Chukchi Sea, but with conditions. Shell can only drill the top sections of wells because the company doesn’t

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Elba Liquefaction Company: Kinder Morgan buys 100% interest, invests $630M

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Shell sells 49% interest, subscribes to 100% of liquefaction capacity of Elba Liquefaction Company Kinder Morgan is buying the remaining 49 per cent interest in the Elba Liquefaction Company LNG plant and investing another $630 million in the facility as it awaits approval to export to non-free trade countries. Kinder Morgan, Inc. (KMI) and Shell (NYSE: RDS.A, RDS.B)

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Five Arctic offshore drilling protestors arrested at Seattle port

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Arctic offshore drilling protestors tried to prevent ship from heading to Alaska Five activists protesting Royal Dutch Shell’s Arctic offshore drilling plans were arrested Tuesday morning after blocking entrances to a Seattle port where its oil rig is parked. The activists tried to block work at the port to prevent the ship from heading to the waters off

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Arctic offshore drilling: Environmental groups sue BOEM

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Companies not equipped for disaster in Arctic offshore drilling: Opponents Ten environmental groups Tuesday sued a federal agency over its approval of a plan by Royal Dutch Shell PLC for exploratory petroleum drilling off Alaska’s northwest coast. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management last month signed off on Shell’s exploratory drilling plan in the Chukchi Sea, which

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Activists protest Shell Arctic oil drilling ship in BC waters

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Shell Arctic oil drilling ship moving through Inside Passage A group of environmentalists and First Nations opposed to Shell Arctic oil exploration are protesting the company’s movements through BC’s Inside Passage. International environmental organization Greenpeace says Royal Dutch Shell is transporting its oil-spill-containment vessel, the Arctic Challenger, up B.C.’s coastline to the Aleutian Peninsula in

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