Honte à Shell qui vient de décider d'abandonner l'intégralité de ses projets dans l'éolien et le solaire
Anger as Shell reduces renewables investment
Robin Pagnamenta,
Energy and Environment Editor
Royal Dutch Shell provoked a furious backlash from campaigners yesterday when it announced plans to scale back its renewable energy business and focus purely on oil, gas and biofuels.
Jeroen van der Veer, the chief executive, said that Shell, the world's second-largest non-state-controlled oil company, was planning to drop all new investment in wind, solar and hydrogen energy.
"I don't expect them to grow much at Shell from here, due to portfolio fit and the returns outlook compared to other opportunities," he said, speaking at the Anglo-Dutch group's annual strategy briefing.
He said that instead Shell would focus its remaining renewable energy investments on biofuels, where it is conducting research into "second generation" fuels, so far with little commercial success.
Linda Cook, who heads Shell's gas and power business, said that wind and solar power "struggle to compete with the other investment opportunities we have in our portfolio".
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/busines s/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article5 927869.ece
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Honte à Shell qui vient de décider d'abandonner l'intégralité de ses projets dans l'éolien et le solaire
L'émergence de la voiture électrique à électricité verte fait flipper les grands groupes pétroliers. Certains d'entres eux s'étaient engagé dans des mini-projets dans le domaine des énergies renouvelables pour tenter se donner une image verte. Shell vient de décider d'abandoner tous ses mini-projets dans le domaine...Voilà une entreprise qui gagne des milliards d'euros en suçant les automobilistes et qui est pas fichue d'investir dans les technologies propres et l'électro-mobilité verte ! - O.D.
http://www.electron-economy.org/article-29190 181.html
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Shell dumps wind, solar and hydro power in favour of biofuels
It plans to invest more in biofuels which environmental groups blame for driving up food prices and deforestation.
Executives at its annual strategy presentation said Shell, already the world's largest buyer and blender of crop-based biofuels, would also invest an unspecified amount in developing a new generation of biofuels which do not use food-based crops and are less harmful to the environment.
The company said it would concentrate on developing other cleaner ways of using fossil fuels, such as carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology. It hoped to use CCS to reduce emissions from Shell's controversial and energy-intensive oil sands projects in northern Canada.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/mar/1 7/royaldutchshell-energy
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