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Future Beyond Shell Future Beyond Shell
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Shell has long been impeding any hope of a Just Transition from the fossil fuel age, making an end to Shell necessary, overdue and inevitable. But what are the pathways to a Future Beyond Shell? If we are serious about putting a stop to the polluting, extractive, colonial oil major, we need to take a good look at the options. Taxing, suing, bankrupting, nationalising: what can we achieve with these strategies?
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Putin’s War Part 2: Fossil Fuels
Russia’s economy depends heavily on oil and gas revenues, and activists and scholars have made the case that Russian President Putin’s war on Ukraine is a fossil-fueled war. In the first 100 days, Russian fossil fuel exports earned Russia 93 …
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Putin’s War Part 1: Shell
Oil and war are often tightly bound together, both in terms of war’s causes, and the outcomes. Indeed, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has caused massive shifts in the oil and gas industry. Soon after the start of the war in …
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Shell Moves to the UK
In this episode and the next few, we are taking a slightly different approach. We want to take stock of a few major events in recent months, how they have affected Shell and the larger oil and gas sector, and …
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Introduction: The State of Shell
In order to identify and assess the tools it may take to dismantle a corporation like Shell, we first need a good understanding of how the company operates in the context of the global political economy. What tactics have helped …
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Going for Broke
In times of economic crisis, bankruptcy has been a frequent fate for struggling corporations. Given the troubled state of the fossil fuel sector, almost 250 oil and gas companies could file for bankruptcy protection in the US by the …
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Putting a Price on Carbon
Carbon pricing & trading has come to dominate the debate on how to curb climate change. Its proponents span the field, from governments and corporations to parts of the white climate movement in the Global North. Simply put, with carbon …