Posts Tagged ‘Shell’

Tar Sands Shareholder Proposals Pick Up Steam in 2010

Monday, March 29th, 2010

In a show of how seriously investors, environmentalists and advocates are looking at the environmental costs and financial uncertainties associated with tar sands, support has grown dramatically for shareholder resolutions filed at major oil companies. This movement parallels increased activity on the part of more than 50 nongovernmental organizations working to slow down the expansion [...]

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Tar Sands Development Stickier Than Anticipated

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

In a rational global economy not entirely driven by short-term profit maximization, the collective body politic of all nations would have applied the precautionary principal to the threat of climate change twenty years ago. We’d now be celebrating the fruits of two decades of aggressive efficiency measures, phased down fossil fuel use, and the mass [...]

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