Shell leaves climate project it helped set up amid Arctic drilling row
Source: The Guardian
Shell leaves climate project it helped set up amid Arctic drilling row
Terry Macalister
Thursday 10 September 2015 20.11 BST
Shell has been forced to leave a Prince of Wales climate change project which it helped found after a row over the oil company’s controversial drilling programme in the Arctic.
The departure from the Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leader Group is another embarrassing setback for the oil and gas company, which has been battling to preserve its reputation in the face of a vociferous and growing campaign against its operations in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska.
Greenpeace said the Anglo-Dutch group was rapidly becoming a pariah in the business world.
The exit was announced in a short note on the climate change programme’s website, based at Cambridge University, which said: “As of September 2015 longstanding member Royal Dutch Shell is no longer a member.”
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