Here’s the start of an article in the blog “The Long Tail Pipe,” with a few of my comments beneath it. A few days ago Royal Dutch Shell announced it was accelerating its strategy to drive down carbon emissions while …
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Shell Announces Shift to Renewable Energy
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Royal Dutch Shell: Where Is It Going?
A year or two after the launch of 2GreenEnergy in the summer of 2009, I got an unexpected phone call from a guy who said, “Hello, Craig. You don’t know me, but I’m — (I can’t recall his name), an …
Shell Oil Gets It
Of the nearly 8000 posts here, there are at least a couple of dozen in which I’ve acknowledged that Royal Dutch Shell is the least obnoxious of the major oil companies. They are fully onboard with anthropogenic climate change, they …
Royal Dutch Shell Sees Electric Transportation Coming, Won’t Be Caught Flatfooted
As we’ve noted a few times over the years here, Royal Dutch Shell seems to be by far the most progressive of the world’s major oil companies. Here’s an article discussing Shell’s CEO Ben van Beurden (who recently traded in …
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Is the Oil Industry Becoming “Less Aloof?”
I’ve long believed that Royal Dutch Shell is the least obnoxious of the big oil companies (though I may be wrong). Here, Ben van Beurden, Shell’s CEO explains why he thinks the oil industry needs to take a more active …
Shell Oil Has an Indefensible Position, But At Least (I Believe) It’s Trying
If I were forced to choose an oil company that I resent less than its peers, it would probably be Royal Dutch Shell. I’ll admit that my reasoning is flimsy, but here goes: 1) A few years ago, a very large …
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Royal Dutch Shell CEO: “Climate Change Is Real, and It’s a Threat” – But What Do Their Actions Show?
The CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, recently stood up for climate science and said, “We’re not aligning with skeptics.” He went on to say, “Let me be very, very clear, for …
Shell Oil, the Future of Transportation, and Coal in the Grid-Mix
I’ve mentioned a few times that even Shell Oil believes the market for oil (gasoline and diesel – liquid hydrocarbons) is going away, and will be very small by the year 2060 – almost entirely replaced by electric vehicles – …
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