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Shell knows climate change is real, but it wants to drill Arctic anyway
2015-05-18 20:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: A man of Ben van Beurdens power and reputation for blunt speaking is capable of silencing a ballroom packed with his boisterous peers. When the chief executive of Shell rose to address an industry gathering in a London hotel, a respectful hush descended. Van Beurden, 57, rose from a modest background in the Netherlands to the top of a cut-throat, politically fraught sector that rarely finds itself out of the public firing line. The annual black-tie dinner at International Petroleum Week in February,...
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