Sinead Lynch, Shell Country Chair | Fully Charged Podcast
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4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
It was a great pleasure to talk to Sinead Lynch, she is the "Shell Country Chair" for the UK, and has a very refreshing take on the future of the fossil fuel industry.
We discuss the way legacy fossil fuel companies could be involved in the transition to a zero carbon future for transport, industry and all our energy needs.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the fully charged show |
| 0:08.8 | podcast now this week's episode well you know what it could be a little bit contentious but I |
| 0:14.5 | really hope not. So a while back and it's so serendipitous that I noticed this. |
| 0:21.6 | A woman called Shinnade Lynch wrote a short essay that she put on |
| 0:25.9 | LinkedIn. Now I don't really use LinkedIn. I totally understand why people do and you know |
| 0:31.4 | and my very good friend Roger Atkins is very very he's |
| 0:35.4 | massive he is massive on LinkedIn he's probably one of the most massive LinkedIn |
| 0:39.8 | people in the world and he's all the time but it's very much for, I always think of it as, you know, if you want to find a job, it's a really good way of doing it. If you're a, you know, a highly skilled professional person, you go on LinkedIn and and you got your CV on there and people know who you work for and what you did and you know stuff like that happens. |
| 0:58.6 | I've never had a job so it's really doesn't. I've always worked. I just want to point that out. |
| 1:03.7 | Listeners, I've never stopped working but I've never had what you would classify as a job. |
| 1:09.0 | In some ways I'd quite like to have one anyway. |
| 1:11.5 | Shaneid Lynch does have a job and what she wrote, she was suggesting in this piece that the UK |
| 1:18.1 | government could bring forward the end of sales of combustion vehicles to 2030, five years earlier than |
| 1:25.8 | the government had recently stated and a full 10 years sooner than they had |
| 1:29.7 | originally suggested. Now there's nothing that surprising about this. A few other activists, |
| 1:35.2 | pundits and engineers have said similar. I've spoken to quite a few people about it. |
| 1:38.4 | But this piece was written by Shell's UK Country Chair. |
| 1:43.6 | Shaneed Lynch works for Shell. |
| 1:46.1 | It's one of the biggest and oldest fossil fuel companies |
| 1:49.4 | on the planet. |
| 1:50.4 | And she is suggesting, quite openly and openly and presumably with the approval of the |
| 1:56.5 | the board and the management and the corporate structure of Shell Oil she is |
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