Shell says it needs government support to invest more into UK energy
The oil supermajor, which made a £15bn profit last year, suggested its UK arm would invest £15bn to almost £19bn in low-carbon energy
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The oil supermajor, which made a £15bn profit last year, suggested its UK arm would invest £15bn to almost £19bn in low-carbon energy
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“We believe that there are sufficient grounds to assert that Shell’s board is mismanaging the material and foreseeable climate risk facing the company," said ClientEarth lawyer Paul Benson
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The oil majors shares fell just over 1% in Thursday's deals.
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Britain's blue chip benchmark finished up around four points, or 0.07%, at 6,964.11
This comes the day after Shell vowed to remove itself from all Russian operations following the country’s continued invasion of Ukraine
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"The magnitude of investments and actions does not match discourse," the authors said
It's tough to be an oil major, though there are tens of billions of reasons not to feel too sorry for them.
Unsurprisingly rising oil prices continued to boost oil profits at Shell which has pushed most of the cash towards debt repayment and share buy-backs.
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