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Oil and gas giant Shell is buying ubitricity, a major provider of electric vehicle charging points in Europe.Shell said Monday that it would buy a 100% stake in the Berlin-based startup, without disclosing the price."The move represents a further step in Shell's efforts to support drivers as they switch to lower-carbon transport,'' the company said.The deal, which is subject to regulatory approval, will give Shell ownership of the biggest public EV charging network in Britain with more than 2,700 charge points.Ubitricity also has smaller public networks in Germany and France, and has installed over 1,500 charge points for fleet customers across Europe.The company's focus has been to integrate charge points into existing street infrastructure such as lamp posts, to reduce the cost of laying new power lines down streets.Experts say easier access to charging facilities is key to the successful rollout of electric vehicles.Shell has said it wants to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 or sooner. 

Goal is to enhance customer offerings.

Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL), in consultation with Indigenous leaders and communities across Western Canada, has developed a new, exclusive Western Nations gas bar brand.

Job losses and massive refinery shortages could result Michigan continues to increase the heat on the Canadian refining sector with its push to shut down Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline by May 2021.

The market for battery-powered delivery vehicles and equipment has so much potential that General Motors is forming a new business unit to serve it, a move that lifted the automaker's stock to a multiyear high.

Canada's Imperial Oil says it will update its carbon pollution disclosure “in the coming months,” after parent company Exxon Mobil pulled back the curtain for the first time on emissions from the use of its own products.

OPW Vehicle Wash Solutions grows technology portfolio with ICS addition Dover, and its OPW business unit, have announced that it has acquired Innovative Control Systems, Inc.

Deal creates oil and gas leviathan Cenovus Energy Inc.

Newfoundland project in question Suncor, Canada's leading integrated energy company, has announced it will record a $425 million non-cash after-tax impairment charge in the fourth quarter of 2020 on its share of the Atlantic offshore White Rose asset and West White Rose Project.

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