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February 17th, 2014:

Royaldutchshellplc.com website under Denial of Service Attack?

By John Donovan

Regular visitors may have noticed that this website was down for almost 24 hours last week. This was because we doubled the power of our server to cope with unexplained surges in traffic, which made access sluggish at times.

Today the site is being bombarded with Shell Blog comments, made in multiple languages via multiple isp addresses. It appears to be yet another concerted denial of service attack by an unknown party.

Such activity is unlawful. We only publish comments about Shell and related matters in English. We never publish comments containing advertising links. read more

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Shell/BASF lawsuit (re Brazil)

Shell/BASF lawsuit (re Brazil)

Author: Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

17 Feb 2014

In March 2007, the Brazilian Ministry of Labour and several workers’ associations filed a lawsuit against Shell Brazil and BASF alleging that workers employed at and living near a pesticide plant, first owned by Shell and then by BASF, suffered cancers and other severe health problems as a result of land and groundwater contamination around the plant.  The claim, in Paulínia Labour Court, São Paulo, sought compensation for their illnesses and suffering as well as recovery of medical costs. read more

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