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EartherEnergy
Shareholders Tell Exxon to Eat Shit
History was made at ExxonMobil’s annual shareholder meeting Wednesday when investors essentially staged a coup, voting to oust at least two members of the board due to the company’s poor performance on climate change. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out! Those members will be replaced by climate activists backed by investor … Continued
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EartherClimate Change
Shell Just Got Wrecked in Dutch Court
A court in the Netherlands just handed down a landmark ruling, ordering Shell to slash its carbon pollution 45% by 2030. It’s hard to overstate how radical the ruling is and the far-ranging impacts it could have not just for the Dutch oil giant but oil companies around the world. Milieudefensie, the Dutch chapter of … Continued
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EartherEnergy
Colonial CEO Would Love It if You Could Forget About His Company
The Colonial pipeline has proven just how critical of a piece of infrastructure it is after it was shut down by a ransomware attack last week that sparked a gasoline shortage along the East Coast. But the company doesn’t want you to remember just how important it is to daily life. There’s a good reason: … Continued
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Earther
Children of Shell Employees Sure Seem to Be Embarrassed by Their Parents
At Shell’s annual general meeting on Tuesday, a company executive told a heartwarming story. Shortly before taking the role six years ago, the fossil fuel giant’s outgoing chairman, Charles Holliday, said he had a conversation with one of the company’s employees. “I asked him the very simple question: ‘In three weeks I’ll become chair of … Continued
By Dharna Noor -
EartherClimate Change
Shell’s CEO Thinks We’re Dumb
Big Oil executives want us to know we need them. In an interview with Axios on HBO on Sunday, Shell CEO Ben van Beurden said that corporations like his must be an integral part of the transition away from the polluting energy they’ve made billions off of. “What quite often I think is insufficiently understood … Continued
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Earther
Colonial Pipeline, the Largest Fuel Pipeline in the U.S., Has Shut Down Over a Ransomware Attack
If you live on the East Coast and see fuel prices go up soon, there’s a good chance it’s because of the cyberattack that forced the Colonial pipeline, the country’s largest refined products pipeline, to shut down. There is currently no indication of when it will start back up again. Operators of the Colonial pipeline—a … Continued
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EartherClimate Change
Shell Is Back, Baby :(
After more than a year of covid-19 lockdowns, there’s—dare I say—a feeling of hope in the air. Yes, things are far from over, but millions of people are getting vaccinated and it’s starting to seem like there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. Well, sorry to ruin things slightly, but oil companies are … Continued
By Dharna Noor -
Tech NewsPrivacy and Security
Oil Giant Shell Hacked Thanks to Flaw-Ridden Accellion System
Royal Dutch Shell, the petrochemical giant (and one of the largest companies in the world), is the latest in a string of high-profile victims to have suffered a data breach in connection with beleaguered cloud provider Accellion. Shell announced last week that a “data security incident” had occurred involving its use of Accellion’s secure file-transfer … Continued
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Earther
One of the Nation’s Largest Pipelines Caused the Biggest Spill in Decades–And We’re Just Hearing About It
Unless you’re living in Huntersville, North Carolina, you may be blissfully unaware that the U.S.’s biggest gasoline spill since 1997 happened this past summer. The slowly-unfolding, little-reported-on saga in the state involves a company controlled by special interests like the Koch brothers and Shell, and a pipeline that has been transporting dirty energy for decades. … Continued
By Molly Taft -
Earther
Shell Says It Has Reached Peak Oil Production
Shell says oil is on its way out. In a Thursday statement, the fossil fuel giant said its “oil production peaked in 2019,” and that we can now expect it to decline gradually by 1 or 2% per year. Shell also said its total carbon emissions peaked in 2018 at 1.7 gigatonnes. The statement doesn’t … Continued
By Dharna Noor -
Earther
Amnesty Wants Shell Execs Behind Bars for Alleged Nigerian Human Rights Abuses
Amnesty International wants to see multinational oil company Royal Dutch Shell go to court. In a report released Tuesday, the human rights organization is accusing the multinational oil giant of complicity in the Nigerian military’s murder of hundreds of indigenous Ogoni People in the 1990s amid protests against oil development along the Nigerian Delta. Now, … Continued