Search results

"Royal Dutch Shell Profit Nearly Doubles"

"Royal Dutch Shell, the biggest oil company in Europe, said on Thursday that its profit almost doubled in the second quarter on higher oil prices and as new oil and gas projects came on stream."

Source: NY Times, 07/29/2011

What's in a Word? "'Poison,' 'Toxic' Nixed By Judges"

"Three judges who will hear a coal slurry pollution lawsuit against Massey Energy have declared any reference to a deadly 2010 mine explosion off limits for the August trial and ordered the plaintiffs' lawyers to avoid inflammatory phrases including 'poison' or 'toxic soup' in opening statements."

Source: AP, 07/25/2011

"Gas Drilling-Lowball Leases"

"Thousands of residents living atop the gas-rich Marcellus Shale ... signed lowball leases in the years leading up to the boom in Pennsylvania. In those early days a half-decade ago, virtually no layperson had even heard of the rock formation, let alone knew that drillers had found a way to access the huge reservoir of natural gas locked inside it."

Source: AP, 07/25/2011

Pages