Royal Dutch Shell provoked a furious backlash from campaigners yesterday when it announced plans to scale back its renewable energy business and focus purely on oil, gas and biofuels. Jeroen van der Veer, the chief executive, said that Shell, the worldโs second-largest non-state-controlled oil company, was planning to drop all new investment in wind, solar and hydrogenย energy.
The declaration coincides with U.S. fossil fuel companiesโ use of Trumpโs trade tensions and international discord to undermine EU climate laws.
Tory energy chief endorses debunked studies written by fossil fuel industry interests.
Nigel Farage and his colleagues have close ties to the autocratic petrostate.
The European Parliament has โa legal and moral obligation to reject these dangerous proposalsโ, according to Dutch Left MEP Anja Hazekamp.
