Basically it seems that there was a queue of Shell directors waiting to enter his office every 30 minutes ready and eager to knife him. He resigned as a result of the cumulative assault, shocked, humiliated and disgusted at the shabby inhuman treatment he received from his colleagues.
October 27th, 2010:
Sadistic sacking of a Royal Dutch Shell whistleblower
Local heroes take on Shell in County Mayo – “The Pipe” – a review
Risteard Ó Domhnaills documentary film about the Corrib Natural Gas project in County Mayo Ireland, The Pipe, has been quite a long time in the making – but the wait has been worthwhile. This is a moving, unsentimental and compelling story well told and, particularly, well edited (by Nigel O’Regan) of how ordinary people in a remote community fought with a multinational company, Shell, to protect their community and their livelihoods. The public release of The Pipe is timely in the light of BPs Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico because, as with BP, the evidence is clear that Shells initial handling of Corrib showed a comprehensive failure to match the rhetoric of their public statements with the reality of their actions. BPs green positioning was shown to be a chimera as the world greatest environmental disaster unfolded in all of its horror and Shells stated commitment to Sustainable Development has been shown in The Pipe to be no less of a veneer.