Why Shell’s $73 Billion Merger Could be Cheating Dividend Investors

Why Shell’s $73 Billion Merger Could be Cheating Dividend Investors

May 22nd, 2015 

by John Donovan. 

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By Adam Galas: May 21, 2015

Royal Dutch Shell‘s (NYSE: RDS-A  ) $73 billion buyout of BG Group(NASDAQOTH: BRGYY  ) would be the second-largest oil merger in history, but long-term Shell investors should be asking whether the company overpaid. In examining the terms of the deal, and what Shell plans to do with BG’s assets, I think it becomes evident that some skepticism of this deal is warranted. 

Terms of the dealBG stockholders will receive .4454 shares of Shell class B shares plus $5.94 per share in cash for each share of BG stock. The $73 billion price tag represents a 52% premium for BG Group, and if the deal is approved BG shareholders would own 19% of Shell when the merger is completed in 2016. 

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Posted in: BG Group, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Gas, Kashagan, LNG, Royal Dutch Shell Plc.
Tagged: BG Group · Chevron · ExxonMobil · Gas · Royal Dutch Shell Plc · Shell

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Dutch Court to Review Gas Output in Part of Groningen Field

Dutch Court to Review Gas Output in Part of Groningen Field

May 22nd, 2015 

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By Isis Almeida and Elco Van Groningen: Published 21 May 2015 by Bloomberg.com

A Dutch court will review natural gas production at a cluster of the Groningen field, Europe’s biggest, after earthquakes linked to extraction damaged buildings in the Netherlands’ most northern province.

The Administrative Jurisdiction Division of the Council of State will review production at the Eemskanaal cluster before June, judge Peter van Buuren said at a hearing in The Hague Thursday. A request to suspend extraction in the area, which accounted for 5 percent of production from the Groningen field in the first four months of 2015, had been rejected on April 14.

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Posted in: Bloomberg, Environment, Exxon Mobil, Groningen Earthquakes, Netherlands,Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Shell.
Tagged: ExxonMobil · Gas · Royal Dutch Shell Plc · Shell

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NEWSLETTERS TODAY...RE-INVENT EDUCATION...... Friday, May 22, 2015

Dear FRIEND,

Elementary school students waking at 2 a.m. with nightmares about high-stakes tests. Middle schoolers stuck in crowded classrooms in underfunded schools. College grads whose reward for surviving it all is a lifetime of debt.

Our broken education system is squashing passion for learning, eroding the love of teaching, and grinding up generations of young people. It's time to reinvent education, and I need your help to get the word out.

Watch and share "Reinvent Education," video #5 in my Big Picture series with MoveOn.

Powerful special interests see schools only as sources of potential profit, and they blame the same hard-working teachers who buy supplies out of their own pockets for all of the problems in American education. The last thing they want is for millions of Americans to see this video.

Please watch and share today, and not only will you help shed light on commonsense solutions—you will be voting for MoveOn to campaign on reinventing education, in close partnership with our allies. 

Here's what American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten had to say about the video: "Reich's strategy to reinvent public education is a sensible, actionable way to give children the schools and services they need to succeed. Count me in."

If you want to fight for the future of education, please watch and share now. 

Thanks for all you do.

–Robert Reich

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Shell handpicked auditor to sign off on government’s Arctic drilling renewal

Shell handpicked auditor to sign off on government’s Arctic drilling renewal

May 22nd, 2015 

by John Donovan. 

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Rose Hackman in New York: 22May 2015

The Obama administration’s process for giving Shell the go-ahead for restarting its drilling in the Arcticlacked transparency and prevented an informed public response, environmental groups have warned.

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Posted in: Alaska, Arctic, Business Principles, Environment, Litigation, Oil Spill,Pollution, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, United States.
Tagged: Alaska · Arctic Ocean · Chukchi Sea · Environment · Oil · Royal Dutch Shell Plc ·Shell

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THE 6 CRAZIEST ARGUMENTS POLITICIANS MAKE AGAINST PROTECTING NATIONAL PARKS

THE 6 CRAZIEST ARGUMENTS POLITICIANS MAKE AGAINST PROTECTING NATIONAL PARKS

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THERE IS A SIMPLE WAY TO EAT HEALTHIER THAT THE MEAT INDUSTRY DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT		THE FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL'S STRANGE STATEMENT ON JOSH DUGGAR'S CHILD MOLESTATION CONFESSION

9 TIMES JOSH DUGGAR LECTURED PEOPLE ON FAMILY VALUES BEFORE HE ADMITTED HE WAS A CHILD MOLESTER

'PROSPERITY GOSPEL' PASTOR IS ASKING HIS CHURCH TO BUY HIM A $65 MILLION JET		THE 6 CRAZIEST ARGUMENTS POLITICIANS MAKE AGAINST PROTECTING NATIONAL PARKS

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Wage War’s Two Fronts

Wage War’s Two Fronts Peter Dreier: This upsurge in the wage wars hasn’t come about all of a sudden. It is the result of years of both changing conditions, effective grassroots organizing, and changing public views about the poor. READ MORE shared from

FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015 What Bennett Kayser's Defeat Teaches Us Joshua Leibner: Our forces can now examine the tactics of the Charter industry and the Big Money, but really, don’t we know it all by now? What we must do is take lessons from your defeat and those in positions of power must double down and do THE RIGHT THING from Moment One in regards to public education. READ MORE Keep Families Together: Ban the Box on Housing Marsha Chien and Irona Lofton: The exaggerated fears of housing associations should not prevent individuals recently released from prison from returning to a stable home with their families. READ HERE Wage War’s Two Fronts Peter Dreier: This upsurge in the wage wars hasn’t come about all of a sudden. It is the result of years of both changing conditions, effective grassroots organizing, and changing public views about the poor. READ MORE A California Columnist in Arab Spring’s Court Joe Mathews: How the Golden State can strengthen its democratic stride by watching Tunisia take its first step. READ MORE Decade-Long Tethering Ends at Main Street Market Marcy Winograd: The City of Santa Monica is seeking new activity vendors -- those offering cooking demos, arts and crafts, painting and more. READ MORE

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Oil Price Fixing

Oil Price Fixing

May 21st, 2015

by John Donovan. 

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FROM A REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR

Campaigns by or on behalf of Shell

It’s interesting that we have campaigns (one fronted by BP, but backed by Shell, and the other fronted by Shell’s lawyers, de Brauw) which will have the effect of avoiding regulation of oil trading activities, and will also decriminalise fraud for companies in Holland.

Both have been highlighted on your site in recent weeks.

Given the issues surrounding the banks’ manipulation of Libor and Forex, and the complaints by Total to the EU that Platt’s oil prices are not representative of the market, both of these proposals should be given very close scrutiny – the oil companies concerned cannot be trusted (any more than the banks) to exercise control of the market for their primary product.

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Posted in: BP, GoogleNews, Oil, Oil Price Fixing, Oil Prices, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Shell,Total.
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