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Shell Worked With Myanmar Despite Fears Of ‘Reputational Risk’ Posed By Rohingya Violence

Shell worked with the government of Myanmar after securing lucrative oil blocks, despite seeing the ongoing ethnic violence against the Rohingya people by the country’s armed forces as a “reputational risk”, according to documents obtained by Unearthed.
A recent spate of murders against the Muslim ethnic minority in western Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, has sparked international condemnation and led to hundreds of thousands of people fleeing their homes.

US sanctions won’t stop Russia’s pipeline project to Europe – analysts

RT | August 3, 2017 The latest US sanctions targeting Russia’s oil and gas sector will cause Gazprom some headaches in building the new gas pipeline to Germany, experts say. However, US restrictions are unlikely to stop the project. “The price of any project automatically increases,” Tatiana Mitrova, director of the Skolkovo Energy Center told […]

Who is the Biggest Climate Change Villain?

Here is an exclusive the Guardian has held back from its readers for 26 years. It is finally published on its pages today.
In 1991 the Shell oil company produced a half-hour film, Climate of Concern, for showing in schools and universities, that set out the dangers of climate change, apparently with unnerving accuracy. The Guardian calls the film “prescient”.

Who is the biggest climate change villain?

The radical climate scientists, the ones whose forecasts have been most accurate and have risked professional marginalisation and possible career damage to explain what is really going on, should be the ones who are now championed by liberal media like the Guardian. But they continue to languish largely unheard because their message grates with advertisers and would damage corporate profits.
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Shell, Eni Charged With Corruption In Billion Dollar Nigerian Oil Deal

In this Thursday, March 24, 2011 photo, oil is seen on the creek water’s surface near Ogoniland, outside Port Harcourt, in Nigeria’s Delta region. (AP/Sunday Alamba)
(REPORT) — Italian prosecutors have charged oil giants Shell and Eni with international corruption offences, as the companies struggle with the fallout from their controversial 2011 purchase of an oil licence in Nigeria.