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Veolia offers $3.5b for Suez stake

Bloomberg Veolia Environnement SA offered 2.9 billion euros ($3.5 billion) for a 29.9% stake in French rival Suez SA, reviving an eight-year-old attempt to create a world leader in waste and water services. Veolia offered to acquire the stake from energy giant Engie SA for 15.50 euros a share in cash, 27% more than where the target closed, Veolia said ...

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Activists target Samsung C&T over coal project

Bloomberg Activist climate investors warned Samsung C&T over its potential involvement in a new coal power plant in Southeast Asia amid mounting global pressure to halt use of the dirtiest fossil fuel. Investment arms of Legal & General Group Plc, the UK’s biggest manager of corporate pension schemes, Norway’s KLP Kapitalforvaltning AS and Helsinki-based Nordea Bank Abp, have urged the ...

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Nigeria oil firm to start mini-refinery in Sept

Bloomberg Waltersmith Petroman Oil Ltd, a Nigerian independent producer, will open a 5,000-barrel a day capacity modular refinery in Africa’s top crude producer that imports all of its refined-product needs. The company, Nigeria’s first producer from marginal fields, plans to increase output to 30,000 barrels a day in two years, Chief Executive Officer Chikezie Nwosu said at a webinar. Nigeria ...

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