By sharing the invitation, the geography department was endorsing Shell as a “great place to work” despite its continued investment in hydrocarbons and allegations surrounding its historic connections with associated abuses, the letter seen by the Financial Times said. The students demanded that fossil fuel companies be banned from such “advertising.
But achieving those targets requires recruitment and retraining on a scale never seen before in the industry, and at a moment when many potential recruits remain conflicted about the role oil and gas companies want to play.Photo by Andrew Kelly/Reuters “The biggest challenge of the energy transition is not financial capital, it’s human capital,” says one industry veteran, who recently left a European oil major after more than 20 years.industry insider
“We don’t turn a 112-year-old company on its head overnight but … we’re doing all of the things that a company like ours needs to do to be part of the solution,” Looney said in a recent television interview now quoted on his LinkedIn timeline.Article content “I saw it as an energy company, not an oil and gas major, from the very beginning,” she says, asking not to be identified. “[For me] it was about that global presence, serving the customer and being at the forefront of developing energy solutions.”Article content
STORY IDEA!! Where would we be now if conservative news orgs like yours (Postmedia) had taken early environmentalists seriously? If this shift had begun in let’s say 1970, and not 50 years late, once oil began it’s long, long death spiral? Leading the world in new energy perhaps?