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"A sleek new startup promising to ‘advance the energy transition’ launched
earlier this month promising to “[connect] thousands of innovators across the
globe to tackle difficult energy and climate challenges”.
The venture, Onward, is owned by Shell, a company that brought in $28bn in
profits from oil and gas last year. The company’s website says it is
“accelerating pathways to energy innovation”, serving as a “hub for innovation,
collaboration and entrepreneurialism”, and creating a “compelling,
evidence-based picture of the benefits of a net-zero future”. Team bios include
descriptions of an ideal day “in our clean energy future”: kitesurfing,
snorkeling and hiking.
However, despite an abundance of green imagery and language, much of platform,
which until recently was called Studio X, appears to focus on improving oil and
gas outcomes, an analysis by
Drilled and the
Guardian has found.
The site’s “Projects” section is a short-term job board hosting dozens of jobs
in oil and gas exploration (the hiring companies are kept anonymous). Of the
five projects with available descriptions, all but one are explicitly for oil
and gas production, while many more of the archived jobs on the platform also
appear to be for oil and gas."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
