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Some U.S. government employees are in really hot water, and not the jacuzzi-shaped kind they’d like it to be. According to three reports delivered to Congress today, a $5.3 million investigation uncovered “a culture of ethical failure” amongst the Interior Department. The department’s inspector general - Earl E. Devaney - found that over a dozen current and former employees had engaged in such transgressions.

n August the UK's Advertising Standards Authority ruled that Shell had misled the public by branding it's Canadian oil sands operation as "sustainable" in an Financial Times advert in February.

The ad that was the target of the WWF and the ASA was carried in the Financial Times February 1st and accompanied Shell's financial results.  The company claimed: "We invest today's profits in tomorrow's solutions."  Shell explained it was harnessing its technical expertise "to unlock the potential of the vast Canadian oil sands deposits".

Researchers at the University of California, Davis have developed an easy, efficient and inexpensive method for transforming raw plant material directly into a fuel called furfural without any additional acid processing or fermentation. Furfural can be substituted for diesel.

If you can believe it, Shell Oil company provides two plausible future scenarios in which oil supply drops in either case. No surprise there. The biggest surprise is the fact that such a company would release these scenarios to the public to help usher in more renewable energy. Perhaps that is no surprise either. Take a look!

After one year of collaborative research, Shell and Virent Energy Systems announced they will be trying to produce a biogasoline directly from plant sugars—as opposed to producing ethanol—with the intention of offering a fuel that can be used at high ratios in standard gasoline engines.

From environmental crimes to human rights abuses, oil is a dirty industry in every possible way. But some companies are better than others, so who should you get your fuel from?

Shell’s two year tenure as sponsor of the Natural History Museum’s ‘Wildlife Photographer of the Year’ exhibition has come to an end. A determined, creative two year national campaign, coordinated in part by the direct action group Rising Tide and its Art Not Oil campaign, helped to force the NHM to ditch Shell.

On 3rd January 2008, at about lunch time, the LRT Greenwash Guerrillas discovered a major source of greenwash at Shell HQ in Waterloo, London. The Guerrillas entered the lobby for an inspection but were so repelled by the Greenwash that they had to leave (the security assisting their escape).

Page contains direct links to the winning images and news reports! after watching Artic Tale I have a fascination with narwhals. There's a pic of them here!

Jack Jacometti, Vice-President of Global GTL Development, Shell, discusses use of alternative fuels for automobiles, including a unique Audi vehicle which uses Shell natural gas-to-liquid (GTL) fuel.