A report – Shell’s Big Dirty Secret – issued on 28 June 2009 by green organisations including Friends of the Earth, reveals that Shell executives continued to approve gas flaring in Nigeria for financial reasons, despite knowing of the consequential serious environmental and health dangers. It also exposes Shell’s machinations in respect of climate change and damaging emissions. The report concludes that Shell is the world’s dirtiest oil company.
That conclusion is correct in more than one sense.