Dividends from UK-listed firms up 16.5% in 2022, far outstripping pay rises Rise in share income particularly steep for investors in banks and oil companies The Guardian - UK · Jan 30, 2023
Shell and BP face tough job of keeping customers and investors happy as profits roll in The oil giants will also have to contend with intensifying calls to put more money into clean energy The Guardian - UK · Jan 29, 2023
Oil giants making 'obscene' £5,000 profit a second while millions struggle to heat homes Five of the world's biggest oil companies are expected to reveal profits equating to £5,000 a second between them while millions continue to struggle with rising energy bills Daily Mirror · Jan 27, 2023
Shell puts 2,000 UK jobs at risk with review of Shell Energy retail division Company weighing options including exit from domestic energy and broadband sectors in UK, Netherlands and Germany The Guardian - UK · Jan 26, 2023
Olympic gold medallist avoids jail over oil tanker stunt Team GB canoe slalom champion Etienne Stott and four other climate protestors were found not guilty after gluing themselves to the tanker’s trailer The Independent UK · Jan 25, 2023
Trinidad offers to pay for Venezuelan gas with humanitarian supplies Trinidad and Tobago would pay Venezuela for natural gas produced at an offshore development with humanitarian supplies like food and medicine, Prime Minister Keith Rowley said, to comply with a U.S. license prohibiting cash payments to the government of President Nicolas Maduro. Reuters · Jan 25, 2023
Shell Acquires Volta Dual Charging And Media Network Volta, the very special charging network, will be acquired by Shell USA in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $169 million. InsideEVs · Jan 23, 2023
Oil wells guzzle precious California water. Next door, residents can’t use the tap A town in the oil industry’s shadow grapples with health fears as the state fails to limit companies’ use of fresh water The Guardian - US · Jan 22, 2023
Cheapest places to get petrol and diesel - as prices fall to lowest since February The AA said it was seeing a "pump price superstore turf war" in areas where there were multiple different supermarkets in close proximity Daily Mirror · Jan 21, 2023
Stargazers say world-famous night skies have been ruined by dazzling lights from new Shell petrol station The nearby National Park has been named as one of the world's best places to see the stars Wales Online · Jan 20, 2023
Martin Lewis issues urgent broadband warning as prices set to increase this week Financial expert Martin Lewis has shared exactly how customers can avoid rising costs. Daily Record · Jan 19, 2023
Revealed: more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest provider are worthless, analysis shows Investigation into Verra carbon standard finds most are ‘phantom credits’ and may worsen global heating The Guardian - UK · Jan 18, 2023
The 'once in a generation' plans to transform Wythenshawe Civic Centre It is hoped that the revamped Civic will be 'a catalyst' for growth Manchester Evening News · Jan 18, 2023
The world’s biggest PR firm claims to be an expert on trust – but is it? Edelman, which will publish the latest edition of its ‘trust barometer’ at Davos, says trust is its legacy – but critics say its reluctant to follow its own advice The Guardian - US · Jan 15, 2023
Daily Mirror · Jan 13, 2023 Charles Leclerc jokes "you don't like me" as Carlos Sainz gives awkward answer in quiz Participating in a video quiz hosted by team sponsor Shell, Ferrari drivers Leclerc and Sainz were happy to mock each other – much to the delight of some fans on social media
Evening Standard · Jan 13, 2023 Unsuitable? Despair at slipping civil service dress standards A civil servant sporting a Huel T-shirt caused upset in one department
St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Jan 13, 2023 Autopsy: Teen killed by police at north St. Louis gas station was shot 18 times ST. LOUIS — A 16-year-old boy killed by police last fall at a north St. Louis gas station was shot 18 times, according to the teenager's autopsy report.
Daily Record · Jan 6, 2023 Oil giant Shell to pay tax in UK for first time in six years amid huge profits The firm made 9.5 billion dollars in profit in just three months last year.
Wales Online · Jan 6, 2023 Shell to pay £1.7bn in UK and EU windfall taxes for last three months Shell had previously avoided most of the windfall tax due to its investments in the North Sea
Insider UK · Jan 6, 2023 Shell to pay £1.7 billion in windfall taxes for past quarter The oil and gas giant's earnings more than doubled year-on-year to £8.2bn in the third quarter
Financial Times · Jan 2, 2023 Business trends, risks and people to watch in 2023 What to look for this year in the corporate world in sectors from energy to private capital and technology
Daily Record · Dec 28, 2022 Energy giants accused of hoarding £2bn of customer cash through direct debit overpayments EDF, Centrica and Shell among dozens of firms accused of raising direct debits of customers who are thousands of pounds in credit.
The Independent UK · Dec 22, 2022 In Peru, Kichwa tribe wants compensation for carbon credits Residents in Kichwa Indigenous villages in Peru say they fell into poverty after the government turned their ancestral forest into a national park, severely restricted hunting and allowed the sale of forest carbon credits to oil companies
Al Jazeera · Dec 21, 2022 Timeline: Half a century of oil spills in Nigeria’s Ogoniland Since oil was discovered in commercial quantities in Nigeria in 1958, thousands of oil spill incidents have happened.
Al Jazeera · Dec 20, 2022 Niger Delta decries slow cleanups, decades after oil spills Residents say response slow, rehabilitation of Nigerian oil-rich state’s environment must speed up.