Posts under ‘Ogoniland’

Documents seen by The IoS support claims energy giant enlisted help of country’s military government By Andy Rowell Sunday 14 June 2009 Serious questions over Shell Oil’s alleged involvement in human rights abuses in Nigeria emerged last night after confidential internal documents and court statements revealed how the energy giant enlisted the help of the [...]

 This article appeared in print under the headline “Nowhere to run…” 29 April 2013 by Fred Pearce Book information Just Business: Multinational corporations and human rights by John Gerard Ruggie Published by: Norton Price: £14.99 EXTRACT Other examples he discusses include the toxic solvents and child labour used to make fashionable Nike sportswear in the [...]

Daily Trust/11/04/2013 The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) Limited Joint Venture says it has commenced an inventory of its assets in Ogoniland in line with the recommendations of the United Nation Environment Program report. The report required SPDC JV to conduct a comprehensive review of its assets in Ogoniland and develop a decommissioning [...]

‘Conscious community choir’ returns to sing out Shell at the Southbank Centre Tuesday, 23 April 2013 08:50 Shell Classic International concert-goers applaud Shell Out Sounds performance highlighting sponsor’s human rights record On the evening of Monday 22nd April, a group of about 10 singers and musicians called ‘Shell Out Sounds’ (SOS) returned to the Southbank [...]

There are also secret documents to prove how Shell tried to bribe my husband in an executive meeting at the government house in Port Harcourt, when they planned to arrest and kill Ken Saro-Wiwa. And when they did not succeed, they turned around to mastermind the killing of the Ogoni 4, in a bid to [...]

By John Donovan Printed below is a deluded article written by a Shell exploration manager – Roland Spuij (prat on the right) – who apparently is totally ignorant of Shell’s track record of giving a higher priority to production and profits than to the safety of its offshore workers. Either that, or he is trying [...]

The group handed out flyers about Shell’s human rights record to audience members, many of whom stopped to listen and applauded at the end of the song.  22nd April 2013 Interval halted at Shell Classic International concert, as ‘Shell Out Sounds’ highlight the sponsor’s human rights record For interviews, photos and film footage, call 07939519963, [...]

The US Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit against the Royal Dutch Shell Petroleum Company brought by alleged human rights victims. The ruling, which was handed down last Wednesday, is seen as a serious setback for the Ogoni community in the Niger Delta, who alleged gross human rights abuses during the mid-1990s by the military government [...]

Nigerians had hoped to use US Alien Tort Statute to sue Royal Dutch Petroleum over the deaths of nine protesters in the 1990s The supreme court has blocked a group of Nigerians from suing the oil giant Shell in US court for allegedly aiding in torture and murder in a ruling that human rights experts [...]

12 April 2013 Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, said, Wednesday [10 April], it had begun the decommissioning of its facilities in Ogoniland, Rivers State, with the commencement of an audit of its assets in the area. Shell said in a statement the process began with bush clearing in the fourth quarter of last year, [...]

A version of this article appeared April 12, 2013, on page B1 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal By BENOIT FAUCON PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria—Jacob Mandi says he failed to find work with Royal Dutch Shell PLC in Nigeria’s oil-rich swamps. So now the 25-year-old ocean diver earns a rich living stealing crude [...]

LAGOS — Shell on Thursday said it had launched a review of its oil and gas assets in Nigeria’s massively polluted Ogoniland region, resuming work in the area two decades after unrest forced the company to pull out. The Anglo-Dutch oil major said the move was not part of an attempt to restart oil production [...]

By Ben Ikari, Director, African Cultural and Fundamental Rights Council (AFCRC-USA): 26 February 2013 Last updated at 08:02 CET Royal Dutch Shell (RDS) may be set for a serious crisis and bloodletting in Ogoni, Nigeria. Information reaching the African Cultural and Fundamental Rights Council (AFCRC-USA) has it that the oil company, which happens to be [...]

Feb 1st 2013, 16:57 by G.P. | ABUJA ON JANUARY 30th a Dutch court ruled that Shell, Nigeria’s biggest oil producer, must compensate Friday Akpan, a farmer from the Delta region, for the pollution of his farmland and destruction of his livelihood. The ruling could open a flood-gate to legal complaints against oil companies.In 2008, [...]

(Reuters) – A Dutch court ruled on Wednesday that Royal Dutch Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary was responsible for a case of oil pollution in the Niger Delta and ordered it to pay damages in a decision that could open the door to further litigation.  By Ivana Sekularac and Anthony Deutsch THE HAGUE | Wed Jan 30, [...]