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Is Shell Really Serious About Dealing With Climate Change?
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Is Shell Really Serious About Dealing With Climate Change?

Gina-Marie Cheeseman May 9, 2018

Under Shell’s Sky Scenario, a world is possible where net-zero carbon emissions is achieved by 2070, and global average temperatures are beneath the target of two degrees Celsius. Or in the words of Shell, it “illustrates a technically possible, but challenging pathway for society to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement.” It envisions a […]Read More

Why Shell Abandoned the Arctic: A Primer on Market Forces for Activists
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Why Shell Abandoned the Arctic: A Primer on Market Forces for Activists

Richard Matthews October 2, 2015

While the laudable efforts of activists have been given credit for ending Arctic drilling, environmentalists could benefit from a better understanding of the dynamics at play. Attributing Shell’s decision to cease its drilling operations in the Arctic to environmental protest is an undeniably compelling narrative. If only a handful of passionate kayaktavists could stop Shell from drilling in the Arctic. The problem is that […]Read More

EarthTalk: What Lessons Learned from the 2010 BP Gulf Oil Spill?
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EarthTalk: What Lessons Learned from the 2010 BP Gulf Oil

Thomas Schueneman August 13, 2015

EarthTalk® is a weekly environmental column made available to our readers from the editors of E/The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: Is off-shore drilling any safer for the environment today given lessons learned from the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico?- Leslie Jackson, Bern, NC The Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in 2010 resulted […]Read More

Greenpeace Launches Campaign to Establish an Arctic Sanctuary
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Greenpeace Launches Campaign to Establish an Arctic Sanctuary

Andrew Burger August 13, 2013

Warming twice as fast as the rest of our world, the Arctic region has become a climate change hotspot. Given the profound ramifications for ecosystems and societies across the region and worldwide, the rapid (from an Earth history perspective) warming taking place in the Arctic has scientists, governments, environmentalists and public interest groups concerned, as […]Read More

The Pipe: The Story of Struggle and Controversy in Rossport Ireland
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The Pipe: The Story of Struggle and Controversy in Rossport

Thomas Schueneman December 29, 2011

For years the small fishing and farming community of Rossport Ireland has been the center of a controversial struggle between the rights of its inhabitants and the power of large-scale fossil energy development. The recently released documentary “The Pipe” tells the story of how this small community took on Shell Oil and the Irish State in […]Read More

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