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Monday, May 18, 2015

Oil Company Spooks: BP Appoints Britain’s Former Chief Spy to Board

May 18th, 2015

14 MAY 2015

BP Plc, the former state-owned oil company with operations from Russia to Iraq, appointed the retired chief of Britain’s overseas spying network as a board member. John Sawers was head of the MI6 service until November 2014.

Oil company involvement with spies is nothing new.

On 17 June 2001, The Sunday Times published a front page lead story on the spying activities of Shell and BP directed against perceived enemies, including Greenpeace.

Confronted with irrefutable evidence, the spying by Hakluyt and Company, a corporate intelligence firm set up by former senior MI6 officers, was admitted by both oil giants.

Titled Shell directors were also directors and major shareholders in Hakluyt.

Shell has continued to use Hakluyt and also runs its own internal unit staffed by former spooks.

Posted in: Bloomberg, BP, Business Principles, Environment, GoogleNews, Greenpeace,Oil, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Shell Spying.
Tagged: BP · Royal Dutch Shell Plc

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Shell’s Report On Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Violation Privileged: Texas High Court

May 18th, 2015

by John Donovan.

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By Jess Davis

Law360, Dallas (May 15, 2015, 7:02 PM ET) — The Texas Supreme Court on Friday held that a report Shell Oil Co. made to the U.S. Department of Justice about a possible Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violation is absolutely privileged and cannot be the basis for an employee’s defamation claim.

Siding with Shell and reversing a Houston appellate court, the high court held that the company’s internal investigation report is entitled to an absolute privilege, not merely a qualified privilege, in light of the DOJ’s possible criminal prosecution of the company. The court said factors…

Posted in: Business Principles, Litigation, Oil, Oil Prices, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, United States.
Tagged: Litigation · Royal Dutch Shell Plc · Shell

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Shell accused of strategy risking catastrophic climate change

May 18th, 2015

by John Donovan.

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Terry Macalister

Posted in: Alaska, Arctic, Business Principles, Chukchi Sea, Climate Change,Environment, Oil Prices, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, United States.
Tagged: Alaska · Arctic Ocean · Global Warming · Oil Prices · Royal Dutch Shell Plc ·Shell

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Shell’s Arctic voyage marks beginning of peak oil era

May 18th, 2015

by John Donovan.

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Shell’s Arctic voyage marks beginning of peak oil era

Anglo-Dutch company’s search for resources in the Arctic is a sign that the world is running out of options for new oil reserves

By Andrew Critchlow, Commodities editor

In his critically acclaimed 2005 book ‘Twilight in the Desert’, the prominent oil economist Matthew R. Simmons predicted that Saudi Arabia’s oil wells would soon run dry.

His argument was based on the age of the seven main fields, which the kingdom still to this day depends upon to pump the bulk of its 10m barrels per day (bpd) of crude. These fields in the main have been producing for over a generation and, despite official figures placing Saudi Arabia’s proven reserves at over 260bn barrels, Mr Simmons argued that the kingdom would struggle to increase its output to keep pace with the projected increases in the demand over the next half century marking the beginning of a period known as “peak oil”.

Posted in: Alaska, Arctic, Climate Change, Daily Telegraph, Environment, Fracking,Gas, Iraq, Oil, Oil Prices, OPEC, Pollution, President Putin, Royal Dutch Shell Plc,Russia, Saudi Aramco, Shale Gas, Shale Oil, Shell.
Tagged: Alaska · Arctic Ocean · Oil · Oil Prices · Royal Dutch Shell Plc · Shell

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Sunday, May 17, 2015

Your Daily Funny

Being a progressive is tough. Every day there is a new struggle, a new challenge. And every day we get emails telling us about all of those problems.

Wouldn't it be great to have your first email each day be something funny?

That's why we created the Daily Funnies.

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The American people are angry

Published on Jun 27, 2012

"The American people are angry. They are angry because they are living through the worst recession since the Great Depression," said Bernie Sanders said on the floor of the Senate.
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