GREEN INC.
By TOM ZELLER Jr.
Published: July 5, 2009
NEW YORK Even as Jeroen van der Veer was preparing to pass the baton to Peter Voser, who took over as chief executive of the oil giant Royal Dutch Shell last Wednesday, the contentious legacy of the companys activity in Nigeria was nipping at its heels.
Just a few weeks earlier, Shell had agreed to settle a court case stemming from the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, a leader of the indigenous Ogoni environmental movement in Nigeria who had protested against Shells environmental practices in the oil-rich Niger Delta.