FROM OUR AUGUST 2005 SHELL NEWS ARCHIVE
BLOOMBERG: Shell Causes Earthquakes in the Netherlands
“Northern Netherlands Trembles as Gas Extraction Triggers Quakes”: The entire area is sinking…
Posted 30 August 2005
Northern Netherlands Trembles as Gas Extraction Triggers Quakes Aug. 29 (Bloomberg) — Arie de Langen says he never thought he’d have to worry about earthquakes in his northern Dutch village of Sappemeer.
Quakes were unheard of and homes in the dozens of towns and villages that dot the region were built with wooden frames and beamed roofs. Then a venture between Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s No. 2 oil company, and Exxon Mobil Corp. began extracting natural gas in the region, triggering land shifts.