All Posts Tagged With: "Shell"

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Big Oil Seeks Gas Shale Deal in Climate Bill

Three oil majors want U.S. senators crafting the climate bill to keep the federal government from regulating shale gas drilling methods that have made vast domestic reserves accessible but have been criticized for polluting water supplies.

26Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Major Energy Player Wants Global Cap-and-Trade System

Europe’s largest oil producer said regional mechanisms to reduce carbon dioxide output should be expanded into a global cap-and-trade system to ensure more companies are forced to curb emissions.

16Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Interior Secretary Salazar Seeks Review
of Oil Shale Contracts

He asks the department’s inspector general to look at amendments, potentially worth billions to shale leaseholders, finalized during the final days of the Bush administration. “Taxpayers deserve answers to serious questions about why these lease addenda were granted at the eleventh hour,” Salazar added in a news release.

21Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Feds Want More Time to Respond to
Oil Shale Lawsuits

The Federal government is seeking another extension of a deadline to respond to lawsuits filed that contest the opening of nearly 2 million acres of public land in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah for oil shale development.

28Aug2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Studies Hightlight Potential, Peril of Oil Shale

In the last couple of weeks two new reports have emerged that take a clear-eyed look at the prospective oil-shale boom. Though they were produced by the Center of the American West, at the University of Colorado, and Headwaters Economics, two left-leaning think tanks, they are admirably objective and non-ideological.

7Jul2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued