First Utility launches in Germany – branded as Shell

First Utility launches in Germany – branded as Shell

Oct 1st, 2015 

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Energy supplier will sell gas and electricity in Germany using global oil giant’s branding under new joint venture

By Emily Gosden, Energy Editor: 30 Sep 2015

First Utility and Royal Dutch Shell are to launch a new venture in Germany selling households gas and electricity under Shell’s branding.

The deal marks First Utility’s first foray abroad after establishing itself as Britain’s biggest ‘challenger’ supplier to the Big Six.

It is also thought to be the first time Shell, the global oil and gas giant, has struck a major household energy supplier partnership to sell electricity and gas in its name in Europe.

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Feds, Shell to pay $55 million to clean up contaminated L.A. site

Feds, Shell to pay $55 million to clean up contaminated L.A. site

Oct 1st, 2015 

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By KYLE FELDSCHER (@KYLE_FELDSCHER)• 9/30/15 4:29 PM

Shell and a government agency will pay $55 million to clean up contaminated soil at a site in Los Angeles as a part of a settlement with the federal government.

The Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday it reached the settlement with Shell and the General Services Administration to clean up the Del Amo Superfund Site in Los Angeles. A superfund site is an abandoned area where hazardous waste is located.

The Del Amo site is the former location of a synthetic rubber plant built in the 1940s that closed in 1972. Among the chemicals used to produce the rubber, which were discarded into unlined pits and ponds and covered with soil, were benzene, propane, butylene and butane. Those chemicals contaminated the soil and groundwater in the area.

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Getting Syrian Refugee Girls the Education They Deserve

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Interview: Filipino Children, Diving for Gold

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In the Philippines, children dive underwater, swim down a wooden shaft barely wider than their shoulders, and mine for gold – all while breathing through a flimsy, narrow tube. We haven’t seen underwater mining – called compressor mining – anywhere outside the Philippines, but other forms of mining involving children on these islands take a more familiar form: boys lowered 75 feet into mine pits, and small children, even 8, 9, or 10-years-old, handling poisonous mercury to separate the gold from the ore.

Juliane Kippenberg, associate director of the children’s rights division, talks about being at an underwater mine, the vertigo-inducing narrowness of some mine shafts, and the toll this takes on the Philippine children who work in gold mining.

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I Know the Fear and Hope of Those Seeking Refuge in Europe By Emina Ćerimović, Human Rights Watch researcher I was eight when war broke out in my country in 1992. I learned the fear of being woken in the middle of the night to the horrific sound of artillery fire. I learned the heartache of losing my first love - my dad - then my grandpa, then my best friend, Ilma. If I could send a message to European leaders it would be this: Understand why people risk everything to reach Europe. Show them the same humanity being shown by ordinary citizens. See the Latest News in Europe/Central Asia >>

Saudi Arabia's Troubling Death Sentence  On September 14, local media reported that an appeals court and Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court had upheld the death sentence of Ali al-Nimr for participating in protests four years ago. He was 16 at the time. Last Saturday, he awaited the execution of his sentence, which stipulated that al-Nimr should be beheaded and that his headless body should be strung up for public display. See the Latest News in the Middle East/North Africa »

Finally – US to Protect Child Farmworkers From Pesticides By Margaret Wurth For the first time, the United States will ban children under 18 from handling pesticides in fields where they work and from re-entering fields where pesticides have recently been sprayed. The new rules will also improve pesticide safety training and protective equipment. See the Latest News in the United States >>

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12 dead, including 5 US service members, when military transport plane crashes in Afghanistan

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12 dead, including 5 US service members, when military transport plane crashes in Afghanistan A U.S. official says a military C-130 transport plane has crashed in Afghanistan, killing 12, including five American service members.

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FRANCIS TOLENTINO SEXY DANCERS GIFT TO A SOLON'S PARTY?

Published on Oct 1, 2015

Metro Manila Development Authority chair and senatorial aspirant Francis Tolentino reportedly brought dancers to a gathering after a Liberal Party event in Laguna on Thursday. 

The dancers are part of the sexy singing and dancing group Playgirls.

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University Contract Workers Wages –Or Lack Thereof– in the Crosshairs

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