LONDON: Shell's departing chief executive officer indicated on Tuesday that governments should "probably" tax energy firms more to help protect the poorest from rocketing electricity and gas bills and ease the cost-of-living crisis.
In an address to the Energy Intelligence Forum, Ben van Beurden, who will leave the oil titan at the end of this year, said "you cannot have a market that behaves in such a way... that it's going to damage a significant part of society. You simply cannot have that."
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