Royal Dutch Shell threatened with climate change legal action

9ueZItq24: Happy 60th Birthday Ben Van Beurden.

TotallyHackedOff: London Lad & Jose. Clearly sociopaths who are keen to make a name for themselves within Shell and trolling sites like this to build a bigger picture on what empathetic employees actually feel because they miss this part in their own sad personalities; believing that Shell is the only company to work for and that it actually means something if you ‘make it’. Get a life. As for the people who open up on here, keep opening up.

Amused: London Lad & Jose What makes me laugh about you pair of clowns is that you are critical of the value of this website and insult those who use it as a channel to air their views, YET you visit it on a regular basis and seem to know quite a lot about it in terms of the topics and the posters etc!!! That makes you quite the illogical hypocrites, don’t you think? What’s ironic is that the logic you both apply (if you are indeed different people) is the same as those of most of the staff that make it to senior positions, and users of this website despize. Well done and good luck in your careers.

Yet Another Concerned Employee: LondonLad and Jose Valente. It sounds to me as if you two sociopathic Metrosexuals should get together over a cappucino or two to talk about your bonuses and then adjourn to a sauna where you can hold hands, ease some of the office tensions and frustrations, and compare the size of your egos.

LondonLad: Been saying the same thing for a several years now Jose. They didn't make it at (or in one case with) Shell or were given early retirement because of poor performance. The combination of such persons, Greenpeace liars, Irish moaners and corrupt Nigerians trying to make money off the back of Shell make this site quite a laugh at times.

Jose Valente: To concerned employee et al: it is amazing how much crap people can write on this blog. I can only presume these are a bunch of losers, that did not make it at Shell. Frustrated, desillusioned - but still with their snouts in the Shell trough, slurping away their salaries AND bonuses. Have at least the guts to leave Shell.

Aidos: Bill & Concerned Employee, The business integrity problems have always been dormant under the surface (since the last integrity crisis at least) and despite the efforts to improve its public image, the problems were bound to keep returning like a bout of gonorrhoea. I wasn’t really surprised when I read the horrendous internal company note blaming Robinson. Shell has form. It seems only yesterday when the Shell turrets turned towards Bill Campbell when he exposed Brinded, Bayliss et al for supporting and encouraging a narcissistic cavalier culture towards safety. Despite all the internal BS to deflect blame and external PR campaign to falsely portray that Shell as caring deeply for the environment and business integrity, internally staff are fully aware that management are only interested in profits, and that staff should be grateful for their jobs and speak out at their own peril. I suspect that the only regret the EC privately have is that their generals were incompetent enough to get caught out with respect to OPL, but unfortunately Robinson is a gift for them and does make a rather convenient scapegoat. In a Shell world where for the majority of my colleagues its all about bonuses, promotions and job survival, I can understand (but in no way condone) why colleagues are more prepared to cross the integrity line. And if caught they will get a slapped wrist over a coffee meeting and no-one other than (the unashamedly corrupt) HR will know (only to raise it up against you when needed). I genuinely believe that Ben van Beurden is a decent man and appears to have a good heart, but his weakness in dealing with the army of internal rogue corrupt dictators and getting control of the HR mafia has already cost him his legacy. OPL is causing a lot of additional stress and gloomy faces in the office corridors and alarming gossip around the coffee machines. Thankfully we have our incompetent lawyers, unscrupulous finance staff, dishonourable HR, shameless spin doctors and ineffective (un)ethics and compliance colleagues at hand to make the OPL problem disappear. Or maybe not.

Yet Another Concerned Employee: Behind the glossy facade of its brightly coloured filling stations and shiny reflective glass towers, Shell is truly a dark malevolent force. It is not only the Church of the poisoned mind, but also home to the parasitic mind which snatches thoughts from others and presents them as its own. Experience and being correct are not recognised, only 'Process'. Many, through either bitter experience, incompetence or ignorance have learned to hide behind process and can no longer think for themselves. Merit is trodden under heel into the mud. Often one bad decision after another results in a predictable squandering of shareholders' money, not by the millions or tens of millions of dollars, but by the hundreds of millions of dollars. Lessons learned are written down then forgotten as the machine moves forwards. This is rewarded by large bonuses. Reality plays little part in the daily running of the business, the public image of the 'Brand' must be protected at all cost.

Concerned employee: I share your sentiments wholeheartedly Bill. The company has been caught with its pants down, with senior staff most likely involved in kickbacks. How could this have got through the numerous assurance including Integrity teams, Auditors etc who all form part of the checks and balances to ensure this is easily picked up (particularly in Nigeria). Either the company is full of incompetence, or there has been a blind eye turned to such corruption. I say (a lot of) both. The amounts of money involved is not loose change. I say this problem is endemic in many of the hardship countries we do business in. Shell is dark, corrupt and dirty and I am beginning to question if I am working for a far more sinister company than I originally thought. And this is playing on my mind.

The Truth at Last: A Goodfriday CRUXIFIXCTION ...took place to day in Mayo ...4 Irish Shell booze cops and a Mayo Co Co officer heard from OSSL that that the oil giant Shell has unambiguously stated that " bribery and corruption " does take place in their orginisation ...the Mayo police and county council gentlemens " who me " stance is not looking to good now ...this is not small " potatoes " one guy demanded and got 280k Euro spent on his house ...watch this space .

Bonus Group: TotallyHackedOff. To pick-up on your comment, most large Oil and Gas corporations comprise two main elements, to use a nautical analogy: the Leadership Team (The Flotsam: debris in the water that was not deliberately thrown overboard) and the Technical Staff (The Jetsam: debris that was deliberately thrown overboard). The Flotsam can usually also be found in a septic tank! BG Group was run on processes parallel to those of Shell. There were Shell 'plants' in the Management Team to ensure that there could be a seamless takeover; it was insidious. BG spent the three years before the takeover bid was announced aligning themselves with Shell. After all if things were to go 'tits-up' and you were the CEO who had come from Shell in the first place, you would want an escape plan to protect your reputation and the shareholders.

Bonus Group: Further to Bogus Group's post on 14th December concerning Neil McCulloch's departure from Enquest, it has not taken long for him to land a plum job as Technical and HSE Director at Spirit Energy where Chris Cox, late of BG is CEO. The storm clouds are beginning to gather as fast as the nepotism allows. Chris is rapidly building on his mandate to develop Spirit Energy (previously Centrica's oil and gas assets, now rebranded) to a level where it can be assimilated by Shell, as the third of the companies spun-off by the British Gas privatisation in the '80s and long stalked by Shell.