Another PR blunder from the House of Shell or a tragic piece of misreporting? Ian McCredie, head of global security services at Shell, is reported to have told a Chatham House conference a tale of how up to 70 staff have been kidnapped over the last year in Nigeria. Mr McCredie then went on to slag off the royal family in Saudi Arabia…
From an ‘Interested Observer; this is for USCitizen posting on Shell Blog
Having some first hand knowledge of Royal Dutch Shell’s issues with the US Dept. of the Navy I can assure that the ‘conspiracy theorists’ are not being paranoid in this particular case. Fortunately for Royal Dutch Shell their only crime (alleged) is that of ‘conspiracy’ to violate US espionage statutes. They failed in their endeavors (alleged).
Now, the US government has a number of options at its disposal when it comes to dealing with companies who would engage in such activities. It can try to bring criminal and civil suites against the company and its management, but in Shell’s case that would fraught with all sorts of ‘political’ and ‘diplomatic’ implications. This path is very expensive, and very time consuming, and it gets ‘messy’. Alternatively, it can simply deal with the issue ‘administratively’. This actually gives the government a host of relatively cheap and rapidly implementable options.
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