Managing Director of Iran’s Pars Oil Company says oil giant Shell has voiced interest to resume activities in the country’s energy sector.
Hossein Vafaee said indirect talks have already started with Shell. The Iranian official also forecast “tough conditions” for Iran once after sanctions against the country are removed.
“If sanctions are removed, many rivals will enter the Iranian market and this will make tough conditions for us,” Forsat Emrooz Newspaper quoted Vafaee as saying.
He reiterated that Iran is after regaining its share of regional and global energy markets when sanctions imposed against the country over its nuclear program are lifted.
BG Group has reported a near 40 per cent fall North Sea production amid disruptions caused by repairs and maintenance work.
The oil and gas firm, which has recommended a £47bn bid from Shell, produced 77,000 barrels oil equivalent per day in the UK in the first quarter. This was down 38 per cent on the 125,000 boed produced in the same period last year.
The big fall in output came after four fields were shut down temporarily to allow work to be done on the CATS gas pipeline and the Lomond production platform.
Shell wins injunction keeping Greenpeace away from Arctic drilling fleet
Greenpeace protesters must stay away from Royal Dutch Shell’s drill ships and support vessels, the anchor lines and buoys attached to them and the Barrow airport hangar and terminal that Shell is seeking to use to support its planned oil-exploration operations in the Chukchi Sea, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Greenpeace activists are even prohibited from flying drones this summer and fall over the offshore Arctic area where Shell plans to drill, according to the injunction issued by U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason.
Royal Dutch Shell says first oil production from its 80,000-barrel-per-day Carmon Creek thermal oilsands project northeast of Peace River in northern Alberta will be delayed for two years until 2019.
The project was sanctioned by the company in October 2013 and estimated by analysts at the time to cost about $3 billion to build. Its delay was confirmed in a first-quarter update by chief financial officer Simon Henry on April 30, as he described how Shell would reduce capital spending by $2 billion in 2015 to $33 billion US or less.
Not many things live to be 100 years old. So when they do, we celebrate! Ninety-nine years ago, on May 9, 1916, the American Federation of Teachers was founded in Chicago, when eight local unions formed the AFT and were granted a charter signed by American Federation of Labor President Samuel Gompers. Leading up to the AFT national convention in 2016, we will spend the next year looking back on our rich history—our struggles, our accomplishments, our proudest moments—and celebrating how far we have come and what lies ahead.
- See more at: http://www.aft.org/100-years#sthash.kIR5MKpw.dpuf
Since that day in 1916, our strength has come from the diversity of our members—who now number 1.6 million—in all constituencies and from the proud history of our local and state affiliates. The next year will be about honoring our past and inspiring our future. We will showcase major events in AFT history, and the role that AFT members and affiliates have played in major milestones like the civil rights movement, women’s rights and the evolution of the middle class, to name just a few. We even applied for a commemorative stamp! And we cannot do this without your input.
Make sure your history and the amazing work your AFT affiliate has been doing over the past 100 years is represented in our story.
- See more at: http://www.aft.org/100-years#sthash.kIR5MKpw.dpuf
I am so proud of the work we have done in these last 100 years and look forward to what is to come!
In unity,
Randi Weingarten AFT President
Lorretta Johnson AFT Secretary-Treasurer
Mary Cathryn Ricker AFT Executive Vice President
P.S. Use the hashtag #AFT100 to tweet your memories, TBTs and celebrations all year!
We all remember the infamous quote from Mitt Romney in the 2012 Election:
And while sensible people think that's a ridiculous idea...
"Corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities of human beings, to be sure, and their 'personhood' often serves as a useful legal fiction. But they are not themselves members of “We the People” by whom and for whom our Constitution was established."
~Supreme Court Justice Stevens, January 2010 (Citizens United Dissent)
...conservative Justices on the Supreme Court have codified it into our laws. According to the conservative majority on the Court, corporations are in fact people with Constitutional rights.
The results have been utterly disastrous. Citizens United v. F.E.C. --SpeechNow.org v. F.E.C. -- McCutcheon v. F.E.C. These cases have opened the floodgates for corporate money in our elections.
Lauren Steiner: The woman who is trying to position herself as a supporter of the middle class, spent the entire day behind closed doors raising a number of $2700 donations from the 1% and conducting meetings with people who would be prepared to give and bundle donations ten times that amount to her Super Pac.
Lauren Steiner: The woman who is trying to position herself as a supporter of the middle class, spent the entire day behind closed doors raising a number of $2700 donations from the 1% and conducting meetings with people who would be prepared to give and bundle donations ten times that amount to her Super Pac.
Mark Naison: Asking young people to go through entire days sitting in their chairs, devoid of any regular physical outlet, is to ask them to do something entirely unnatural for any human being, much less a child.
Without Hope, Inner-City Residents Will Take to the Streets
Alvaro Huerta: While I became accustomed to being pulled over, frisked and questioned by the police in the projects, I never expected this harassment to follow me to UCLA.
America’s Enduring Challenge and What We Need to Do about It
Frank Fear: Jobs are the centerpiece, especially jobs associated with making and doing things. Enhancing access to technical, skill-based education is important.
Democrats just introduced a bill to force SuperPACs to disclose their major donors at the end of TV ads: 5O,OOO Signatures Needed → Sign your name to support the K.O.C.H. Act:
Here are the names of some real groups that attacked President Obama in 2012:
They sound innocent enough.
But they’re actually right-wing front-groups for the likes of Karl Rove and the Koch Brothers.
Voters deserve to know who’s behind the deceptive ads flooding our airwaves.
The Keeping Our Campaigns Honest Act (K.O.C.H. Act) would do just that -- forcing SuperPACs and dark money groups to disclose major donors at the end of their ads.
But if Democrats are going to get this bill through Congress, it’ll take a tremendous grassroots effort.
5O,OOO Signatures Needed → Sign your name to support the K.O.C.H. Act:
SEE BELOW FOR THE 1001STTIME THE REITERATION OF DEMAND PAYMENT OF RETIREMENT PAY WHICH SHELL REFUSED TO HONOR IN THE PRESENCE AND DEEMED APPROVAL OF THE HONORABLE MAGISTRATES OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE PHILIPPINES
Saturday 9 May 2015
Yereth Rosen
DAN HEALING, CALGARY HERALD
