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June 10th, 2005:

Royal Dutch Shell disputes domain name

BigOil.net: Netherlands/UK: Royal Dutch Shell disputes domain name

Posted 10 June 2005

Shell has called on the World Intellectual Property Organization to rule on the use of the domain name www.royaldutchshellplc.com, which was bought by anti-Shell campaigner Alfred Donovan following the company’s publication of its name once its two parent companies are merged in summer 2005, Royal Dutch Shell PLC.

The website contains negative media articles about Shell. Shell hopes that Donovan will be banned from using the domain name.

Comment by Alfred Donovan: This is not a fair and balanced article. I am not campaigning against Shell but against its hopelessly incompetent senior executives, Jeroen van der Veer and Malcolm Brinded. These gentleman are implicated in the reserves scandal and have turned a blind eye to other serious misconduct at Shell. The libel courts are open to them if they wish to challenge my assertions. My website actually contains positive and negative media articles about Shell. It is not my fault that the negative articles have been far more frequent than the positive ones, mainly because of the reserves scandal. read more

This website and sisters royaldutchshellgroup.com, shellnazihistory.com, royaldutchshell.website, johndonovan.website, and shellnews.net, are owned by John Donovan. There is also a Wikipedia segment.

Gazprom Reaches Agreement With Shell to Take Part in Sakhalin-2

MosNews (Russia): Gazprom Reaches Agreement With Shell to Take Part in Sakhalin-2: Friday 10 June 2005

Russia’s natural gas monopoly Gazprom said on Friday, June 10, that it has basically reached an agreement with international oil major Shell regarding participation in the oil and gas project Sakhalin-2. Shell leads the international consortium which develops the project off the coast of Sakhalin Island in Russia’s Far East.

Alexander Medvedev, head of Gazprom’s export unit, said the firm was very close to concluding a long-awaited swap deal, under which Gazprom would take 25 percent of the Sakhalin-2 project. Shell would lose its majority holding in Sakhalin Energy, which operates Sakhalin-2, but gain a stake in Gazprom’s West Siberian Zapolyarnoye field, which produces 100 billion cubic meters of gas a year. read more

This website and sisters royaldutchshellgroup.com, shellnazihistory.com, royaldutchshell.website, johndonovan.website, and shellnews.net, are owned by John Donovan. There is also a Wikipedia segment.

Chastened Shell sets out latest guidelines on oil reserves

The Herald (Scotland): Chastened Shell sets out latest guidelines on oil reserves

BEN GRIFFITHS June 10 2005

OIL and gas giant Shell yesterday moved to ensure it is in line with complex rules regarding the classification of reserves as the company battles to put an overbooking scandal behind it.

In a technical report intended to manage how proved reserves are handled within the group, Shell outlined how some disclosures which are required by the US Securities & Exchange Commission have changed to comply with regulations.

In the introductory section of the text, the world’s third-biggest oil company said: “Shell’s historical practices related to proved reserves calculations have been updated to reflect a clearly different approach to determining SEC compliant reserves.” read more

This website and sisters royaldutchshellgroup.com, shellnazihistory.com, royaldutchshell.website, johndonovan.website, and shellnews.net, are owned by John Donovan. There is also a Wikipedia segment.

No drop dead date for Mackenzie pipeline, says Shell’s Clive Mather

Canadian Press: No drop dead date for Mackenzie pipeline, says Shell’s Clive Mather

Posted 10 June 2005

By Bill Graveland

CALGARY (CP) – Shell Canada Ltd. is still committed to proceeding with the $7-billion Mackenzie Valley natural gas pipeline in the Northwest Territories but not without clear guidelines from Ottawa, the energy giant’s president and chief executive said Thursday.

“Mackenzie Delta for us is a very, very important project and we are committed to doing it,” Clive Mather told the Calgary Chamber of Commerce.

“But what we went to see is some unblocking of the regulatory processes so we can actually get this thing started again.” read more

This website and sisters royaldutchshellgroup.com, shellnazihistory.com, royaldutchshell.website, johndonovan.website, and shellnews.net, are owned by John Donovan. There is also a Wikipedia segment.

Far from a fresh start for Shell

ShellNews.net: Royal Dutch Shell plc: Far from a fresh start for Shell

10 June 2005

By Alfred Donovan

The Herald, a Scottish newspaper, published an article today under the headline: “Chastened Shell sets out latest guidelines on oil reserves.”

The following is an extract: “Shell stunned world financial markets in January 2004 when it slashed proven oil and gas reserves, or oil still in the ground, by 20%, the equivalent of 3.9 billion barrels. Further, smaller disclosures followed along with the revelation that the group’s former management had known about the vast overbooking and lied to cover it up.” read more

This website and sisters royaldutchshellgroup.com, shellnazihistory.com, royaldutchshell.website, johndonovan.website, and shellnews.net, are owned by John Donovan. There is also a Wikipedia segment.

The Guardian: A noose, not a bracelet

Saro-Wiwa gave his life to the idea that the vast oil wealth of the Niger delta must leave behind more than polluted rivers, charred farmland, rancid air and crumbling schools. He asked not for charity, pity or “relief”, but for justice.

The Guardian: A noose, not a bracelet

Naomi Klein

Friday June 10, 2005

Gordon Brown has a new idea about how to “make poverty history” in time for the G8 summit. With Washington so far refusing to double its aid to Africa by 2015, the chancellor is appealing to the “richer oil-producing states” of the Middle East to fill the funding gap. “Oil wealth urged to save Africa,” reads the headline in the Observer.

Here is a better idea: instead of Saudi Arabia’s oil wealth being used to “save Africa”, how about if Africa’s oil wealth was used to save Africa – along with its gas, diamond, gold, platinum, chromium, ferroalloy and coal wealth? read more

This website and sisters royaldutchshellgroup.com, shellnazihistory.com, royaldutchshell.website, johndonovan.website, and shellnews.net, are owned by John Donovan. There is also a Wikipedia segment.
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