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Business Matters: French Strikes Disrupt Fuel Supplies

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French Strikes Disrupt Fuel Supplies

25/05/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, French Strikes Disrupt Fuel Supplies

Total group to 'seriously review' plans in France, after oil refineries were blockaded.

The French energy giant Total says it will seriously review its investment plans in France, after several of its oil refineries were blockaded by workers protesting against a new labour law. An estimated 20% of French petrol stations have either run dry or are low on supplies. The BBC's Lucy Williamson brings us the latest from Paris.

Oil and gas group Royal Dutch Shell faced criticism over executive pay during its annual shareholder meeting. Campaigners also called for the company to take more steps to prevent climate change. We hear from Mark Van Baal, the founder of a new campaign group called Follow This and environmental campaigner Jonathan Porritt, who explains that energy companies have been forced to think much harder about how they handle large drilling and fracking projects.

We find out why millennials in the US are turning to computers rather than people for help with their investment decisions and the BBC's Edwin Lane reports from Vancouver which recently became the least affordable city in North America.

Plus, Bob Dylan at 75 - we attempt to uncover the secret of his enduring appeal with help from Bob Batchelor, a cultural historian who teaches at Miami University.

Our guests for the hour are Kimberly Adams from our US partner programme Marketplace in Washington DC and Madhavan Narayanan, columnist and tech writer for the Hindustan Times in Delhi.

(Photo: Workers on strike outside a Total refinery in France. Credit: Jean-Sebastien Evrard/AFP/Getty Images)

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