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07-16-01
The first petroleum company in the world to recognize climate change as a threat to the environment, BP today becomes the only oil company to join the Alliance to Save Energy, which includes 70 other leading companies in their industries that are committed to promote energy ...
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05-23-01
Suncor Energy announced today it has nearly doubled its annual target for aboriginal business development at its Oil Sands operation at Fort McMurray, and is close to achieving its target for aboriginal employment in its Oil Sands workforce.
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02-05-01
Wisconsin Electric and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today will sign an Environmental Cooperative Agreement. This is the first agreement of its kind between a Wisconsin business and the DNR.
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01-24-01
Shell Forestry has been awarded Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification for its 159,000 hectares of forests in Latin America.
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08-21-00
Rohby Word Mitchell of Duke Energy
(NYSE: DUK) was recognized by the Houston Human Resource Management
Association (HHRMA) for her efforts in promoting and sharing information with
the group's diversity committee.
Mitchell, manager of diversity an...
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08-08-00
Bill Dahlberg, Chairman and CEO of Southern Company, demonstrated his company’s commitment to environmental stewardship by announcing today that its subsidiary - Georgia Power - will construct 100 percent cooling towers on plants McDonough and Yates on the Chattahoochee Rive...
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06-21-00
The Royal Dutch/Shell Group (Shell) has been awarded the "Corporate Impact Assessment Achievement Award" by the International Association of Impact Assessment (IAIA) in recognition of its work on the Camisea Project in Peru.
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06-20-00
AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 20, 2007--Green Mountain Energy Company, the nation's leading provider of cleaner energy and carbon offset solutions, and Ronald McDonald House Charities of Austin and Central Texas (RMHC-ACT) today began installing a 10.8 kilowatt (kW) s...
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06-20-00
Suncor Energy Inc. announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Conestoga-Rovers and Associates of Waterloo, Ontario to pursue opportunities to produce alternative and renewable energy from Canadian municipal landfills.
Conestoga-R...
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06-05-00
A major new charity set up by the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of companies was launched today with initial funds of $30 million for sustainable energy and other social investment projects worldwide.