Summary
IT IS one of the most important weeks in the history of oil and gas giant Shell, but James Smith wants to talk about birds. The chairman of Shell UK is in Edinburgh for a conference organised by the Scottish Chambers of Commerce to coincide with the G8 summit at Gleneagles, and is discussing the London Array - a GBP 1.5bn project to build 270 wind turbines in the Thames Estuary - and the threat it poses to bird species.
"The Red Throated Diver and the Scoter are the two we have to think about," he says with evident sincerity, before pausing and gazing solemnly around the darkened room at the bemused delegates.See the full content of this document
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Interview: James Smith: Two Into One Will Go
Few appear particularly interested and Smith moves on to speak about nuclear energy as if it is perfectly natural that one of the most controversial issues in the world should follow seamlessly from ornithology.
That Smith has made it to Edinburgh at all is surprising. On Tuesday he was in London for the group's historic annual general meeting where share...See the full content of this document
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