Help Shell show how arctic exploration benefits the world

[PottedMeat]

http://arcticready.com/social/gallery

 

[bfdd]

exploration brings more information to light, more information allows for new thought and understanding. so while bad can come from thing, so can lots of good. everyone is just to cynical and assholish for them to encourage it and for it to actually happen.

 

[rockyct]

exploration brings more information to light, more information allows for new thought and understanding. so while bad can come from thing, so can lots of good. everyone is just to cynical and assholish for them to encourage it and for it to actually happen.

I don't think any "exploration" by Shell in the Arctic is going to expand our scientific knowledge of the area...except to know how much oil is down there.

 

[bfdd]

I don't think any "exploration" by Shell in the Arctic is going to expand our scientific knowledge of the area...except to know how much oil is down there.

That's what you think, except it probably would.

 

[techs]

Exxon Valdez?
Deepwater Horizon?
Oops!

Let's go!

 

[bfdd]

Exxon Valdez?
Deepwater Horizon?
Oops!

Let's go!

Shell has such a bad reputation due to those accidents... oh wait lol you almost had me there.

If I had one wish, I'd wish that everyone who has an opinion about the energy industry actually work in the energy industry for a few months. Not in the kushy executive positions either, but the actual grunt work positions. Waah dirty work waah. srs whiners

 

[rockyct]

That's what you think, except it probably would.

Any "exploration" there is not science driven but profit driven. Discovering anything not related to oil would be a pure accident. Profit based "exploration" isn't inherently bad, but when you use images of cuddly animals and beautiful scenery to promote Arctic drilling, some people are going to take offense.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Is this real? If so, it's one of the single worst ideas a marketer has ever had. Maybe he's unhappy and he wants to go out on a big "Fuck You" to Shell, but this is just ridiculous. It's one thing to try and get community involvement. It's another to try and do it through pictures of wildlife who would get absolutely no benefit from increased Arctic oil drilling/"research," but be adversely hit by any negative impact (ie an oil spill). It's like using pictures of Bambi to sell guns.

 

[Meghan54]

If this is real, I don't think it's going to go too well for Shell. Boo-freakin'-hoo.

 

[K1052]

That site is a really well done parody. This was covered online about a month ago IIRC.

http://observer.com/2012/06/shell-oil-arctic-ready-prank-site-06142012/

 

[The Boston Dangler]

this incredibly stupid advertising reminds me of another: the cable company had no idea the population would use "comcastic" in a negative manner. i'm amused shell still hasn't already shit-canned this.

p.s.
duh, not shell.com

 

[SunnyD]

Help an oil company understand how exploring any body of land/water benefits the world.

Do you realize what you just asked?

Oil companies have one and only one motivation: Exploitation of resources. The only thing they want to explore is whether there are any natural resources in their field of expertise that they can exploit, and in particular exploit cheaply.

Do I want Shell anywhere near the arctic? FUCK NO. I want big oil to go away.

And my job is tied rather directly to the success of oil companies in general. How much does that suck.

 

[K1052]

Do I want Shell anywhere near the arctic? FUCK NO. I want big oil to go away.

Better Shell than BP. Given their solid track record of epic fucking disasters they should have been banned from oil exploration/services in the US and probably made to sell their refineries.

 

[bfdd]

Any "exploration" there is not science driven but profit driven. Discovering anything not related to oil would be a pure accident. Profit based "exploration" isn't inherently bad, but when you use images of cuddly animals and beautiful scenery to promote Arctic drilling, some people are going to take offense.

"for science" is profit driven as well, it's just a different form of profit. it profits the scientist in knowledge/information. your whole premise is silly. many great things come from not so great things, sounds like a bunch of whiners in this thread.

With the exception of SunnyD that is. Can't believe they'd just leave that there like that, absolutely unacceptable.

 

[SunnyD]

With the exception of SunnyD that is. Can't believe they'd just leave that there like that, absolutely unacceptable.

I had a multi-tab issue with my brain - I have since edited it (my brain), and fixed it. Ignore that. (Different thread, different tab, wasn't paying attention to what I was editing)

 

[bfdd]

I had a multi-tab issue with my brain - I have since edited it (my brain), and fixed it. Ignore that. (Different thread, different tab, wasn't paying attention to what I was editing)

oh lol, I'm guessing it was for the neighbor thread? still unacceptable!

 

[PottedMeat]

That site is a really well done parody. This was covered online about a month ago IIRC.

http://observer.com/2012/06/shell-oil-arctic-ready-prank-site-06142012/

aww, that's what i get for not googling/whois it first

UPDATE: It looks like it’s the work of Greenpeace, in conjunction with activist group The Yes Men.

lol. the yes men delivered a speech as exxon execs at a oil conference extolling the virtues of 'vivoleum' - oil made from corpses.

Better Shell than BP. Given their solid track record of epic fucking disasters they should have been banned from oil exploration/services in the US and probably made to sell their refineries.

haven't heard anything about shell accidents in the US, but BP's fucked up quite bit with spills/pipeline problems/people getting killed at their refineries.

 

[bfdd]

aww, that's what i get for not googling/whois it first



lol. the yes men delivered a speech as exxon execs at a oil conference extolling the virtues of 'vivoleum' - oil made from corpses.



haven't heard anything about shell accidents in the US, but BP's fucked up quite bit with spills/pipeline problems/people getting killed at their refineries.

in all fairness to BP for the people dying thing, most of those issues were due to some contractor being an idiot. in fact wasn't the oil spill due to a contractor being an idiot? having done contracted work for BP many of time, there are a lot of retarded asshole contractors that do work in the oil industry that they seem to hire.

 

[BladeVenom]

Has anybody criticizing Shell given up using fossil fuels? Or are they all hypocrites?

Lets go back to killing whales for oil, it's all natural.

 

[lothar]

Do you realize what you just asked?

Oil companies have one and only one motivation: Exploitation of resources. The only thing they want to explore is whether there are any natural resources in their field of expertise that they can exploit, and in particular exploit cheaply.

Do I want Shell anywhere near the arctic? FUCK NO. I want big oil to go away.

And my job is tied rather directly to the success of oil companies in general. How much does that suck.

If Shell doesn't do it, BP or Gazaprom will do it.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Has anybody criticizing Shell given up using fossil fuels? Or are they all hypocrites?

Lets go back to killing whales for oil, it's all natural.

They're just hypocrites. Oil isn't just used for energy. Where do they think plastics come from?
They only parrot what they've been told is bad.
I read something not to long ago that said something like only 20 gallons of oil per barrel is actually used for fuel, the rest of it goes to making other products like plastics, paint, styrophom, or any of thousands of other products.