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SW: selling solar
'''Shell''' describes itself as "a global group of oil, gas and petrochemical companies with a broad portfolio of hydrogen, biofuels, wind and solar power interests." [http://www.shell.com/home/Framework?siteId=home] Shell operates in "more than 140 countries and territories, employing approximately 109,000 people," according to its website (accessed February 2007). [http://www.shell.com/home/Framework?siteId=aboutshell-en&FC2=&FC3=/aboutshell-en/html/iwgen/at_a_glance/at_a_glance_09112006.html] Royal Dutch Shell is partner of the world's largest Public-Private Partnership (P3) N.V.Nederlandse Gasunie, together with Exxon (Esso) and the Dutch government, that captured the globalization trend in 1963. [http://www.complexxon.org]
==Selling solar==
Shell "has quietly sold off most of its solar business," reported Terry Macalister in December 2007. In 2006, "Shell hived off its solar module production business. The division, with 600 staff and manufacturing plants in the US, Canada and Germany, went to Munich-based SolarWorld." In late 2007, Singapore's Environ Energy Global bought "Shell's photovoltaic operations in India and Sri Lanka, with more than 260 staff and 28 offices, for an undisclosed sum." Shell plans to also sell its solar operations in the Philippines and Indonesia. "Shell has however formed a manufacturing link, with Saint-Gobain, and promised to build one plant in Germany," according to Macalister.
A Shell spokesperson said that solar "was not bringing in any profit for us there so we transferred it to another operator. The buyer will be able to take it to the next level." <ref>Terry Macallister, "[http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/dec/11/oil.bp Big Oil lets sun set on renewables: Shell has quietly shed most of its solar power, while BP is buying into dirty tar sands]," ''The Guardian'' (UK), December 11, 2007.</ref>
==2007 controversy with Broadwater, ACORN==
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== External links =====References===
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== External links =Articles===
*Michael Renner, [http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=5529 The New Oil Order. Washington's War on Iraq is the Lynchpin to Controling Persian Gulf Oil], ''Foreign Policy in Focus'' at CorpWatch, February 14, 2003.
*Katherine Griffiths and Danielle Rossingh, "[http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story=511524 Shell non-execs hire advisers as van de Vijver speaks out]," ''Independent'' (UK), April 15, 2004.
