LONDON, May 26 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L) said Linda Cook was stepping down as head of the oil group's gas and power division, after she lost out in the race to become Shell's new chief executive.
May 26th, 2009:
Shell gas boss steps down after losing CEO race
Breaking News… Linda Cook, Executive Director of Royal Dutch Shell Gas & Power Resigns…
Linda Cook, Executive Director of Royal Dutch Shell Gas & Power
According to a reliable Shell insider source Linda Cook, Executive Director of Royal Dutch Shell Gas & Power, is leaving Shell in just a few days time, on June 1, 2009, for sudden undisclosed reasons.
The following posting was made on our Shell Blog at 8am UK time…
Linda Cook is stepping down. Peace at last, peace at last. Now there is room for talented women instead of token women. Will she return her stay-on bonus? Very curious what bullshit story she will now come up with!
Shell on trial
(Oil giant in the dock over 1995 murder of activist who opposed environmental degradation of Niger Delta)
Royal Dutch Shell will revisit one of the darkest periods of its history tomorrow as a potentially groundbreaking court case opens in New York.
The oil giant stands accused of complicity in the 1995 execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, a Nigerian environmental activist.
The world’s boardrooms are watching the case, which is seen as a test of whether transnational companies owned or operating in the US can be held responsible for human rights abuses committed abroad.
Ken Saro-Wiwa: All the things he predicted have come to pass
Chris Newsom: All the things he predicted have come to pass
Tuesday, 26 May 2009
The execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and his colleagues in 1995 dragged Shell and Nigeria’s leadership into a controversy from which they find it difficult to extricate themselves. Fourteen years on, the actions of both are still seen through the prism of the showdown with the Ogonis. Ogoniland has remained in limbo: no oil has been pumped since 1993, there has been little development, and mediation efforts collapsed without one meeting between Shell and the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People.
Shell and a particularly obscene pay deal
Last week, 59% of Shell's shareholders voted down its directors' pay packages a huge rise from the 15 or 20% that might come out against a particularly obscene pay deal just a couple of years ago.