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Note to Shell: Most of your critics don't want a 'sudden death' for fossil fuels

12 February 2015 •

Ben van Beurden's resorting to straw man arguments only underlines how the logical march of the carbon bubble has the fossil fuel industry rattled

Shell chief executive Ben van Beurden's speech to delegates at International Petroleum Week tonight looks like it will be right on the money. For example, he's right to suggest "provoking a sudden death...

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