We've gatecrashed Shell's swanky party at the National Gallery (for the second year running). This time, we've helped Shell launch a new art exhibit, Annus Horribilis: New works in oil. Shell may have put its Arctic ambitions on hold but we won't stop until the frozen North is put out of their reach.
After nearly two years of campaigning by more than 526,000 of you
across the planet, VW has turned away from the Dark Side and committed
to make cleaner and more efficient cars.
That means VW will also meet strong EU CO2 reduction targets.
This
is big, because using less oil means less pollution, less impact on the
climate and less pressure on vulnerable places like the Arctic.
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After nearly 2 years and 520,683 people pressuring VW, they've finally agreed to make cleaner and more efficient cars. VW announced that it will meet new EU car efficiency targets for 2020. That means its entire fleet will average 95g/km (about 4 litres/100km) per vehicle by 2020. VW is Europe’s biggest car-maker, the seconde biggest in the world, so this is big news. Using less oil means less pollution, less impact on the climate and less pressure on vulnerable places like the Arctic. Here's how you made it happen...
On 8th January 2013, the U.S. Interior Secretary, Ken Salazar, announced a review of the 2012 Alaskan Arctic offshore drilling programme “to review practices and identify challenges as well as lessons learned.” The review to be completed within 60 days will focus on the successive setbacks encountered by Shell during 2012. These include its failure to secure timely certification of its containment ship, the Arctic Challenger, the failure of safety testing on its containment dome; operational issues with its drilling rig the Noble Discoverer and the running aground of its other drilling rig the Kulluk on 31st December 2012.
Shell's Arctic oil rig hits the rocks. Should we trust them with the Arctic?
Shell's most
recent 'mishap' a few days ago was not the first setback the oil giant has suffered in
its plans to drill for oil in the Arctic. In fact, it's the eighth in a growing
list of reasons why Shell should not be trusted in the Arctic.
This document provides an analysis of Shell’s oil spill response plan for the
exploratory wells that the company is drilling in the Beaufort and Chukchi
Seas, Alaska. Shell and Cairn Energy both appeared before the UK parliamentary
Environmental Audit Committee to face questions about their ability to contain
and clean up an oil spill as well as preventing one from occurring in the first
place.
