4 April 2012 ABOUT 1,000 protesters have blocked the waterways in the Niger Delta to prevent oil giant Shell workers from reaching its oilrigs. The protesters on the boats reportedly held fourteen members of Shell staff. Efforts to reach the oil giant’s spokesman for comments proved abortive. However, Agency reports quoted Jonathan Omongu, leader of [...]
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Shell battles to clean up its act in the Niger Delta
This is Shells dirty laundry, an ecological stain on its character that predates BPs despoliation of the Gulf of Mexico and will likely outlast it by many years… Given the reputational damage it has incurred from oil spills, not to mention the threat to staff of kidnap or murder, a huge question mark hangs over [...]
Elgin platform gas leak: Shell evacuates Shearwater
The BBC understands workers were told ‘this is not a drill’, before being evacuated 26 March 2012 Last updated at 20:18 Elgin platform gas leak: Shell evacuates Shearwater. Oil workers have been removed from a second platform and drilling rig in the North Sea because of safety concerns. A gas leak near a rig 150 [...]
Update on Shell controversies involving the Police
By John Donovan Irish police investigation into alleged death threats against Shell whistleblowers on the Corrib Gas Project In October 2010 I notified the Chief Police Commissioner of the Garda about alleged death threats made against Shell Corrib employees. Insiders had supplied us with a series of Shell internal emails containing sensitive confidential information about [...]
EU move over offshore safety
It is now accepted by the establishment that following the Brent Bravo fatalities installations like Gannet were found to have similar problems but continued to operate with dangerous risk levels. This information was not given to the public prosecutors by the HSE who were desperately trying to cover up their own criminal neglect. EU move [...]
Shell in Talks to Settle $653 Million Brazil Contamination Penalty
BASF and Shell were jointly ordered in August 2010 to pay damages to former employees for medical treatment and personal suffering… BASF said its Brazilian unit filed a lawsuit against Shell… asking a court to declare that Shell is responsible for the full amount of the damages resulting from the contamination… By Sheenagh Matthews – [...]
Ice drilling madness: Lawless
The Xena: Warrior Princess star and six other Greenpeace protesters sneaked onto the Shell-contracted Noble Discoverer at Port Taranaki at dawn yesterday, climbing its 53-metre drilling tower and hoisting banners which read “Stop Shell” and “Save the Arctic”.
Sadistic Sacking of Shell Exploration & Production Boss
We can now read in a court deposition given under oath, the dramatic and emotional account by van de Vijver himself of how he was brutally pressurised into resigning by his colleagues, including Jeroen van der Veer. A masterclass in backstabbing.
Inspection report on spill pipeline ‘overdue by three years’
THE PRESS AND JOURNAL: PAGE 6. MONDAY, February 20, 2012 BY ROSS DAVIDSON An inspection report on the safety of a pipeline at the centre of the UK’s biggest oil leak in a decade was overdue by three years, officials revealed. Operator Shell was supposed to assess the integrity of pipelines at Gannet Alpha every [...]
Shell’s Gannet Alpha leak pipeline audit three years overdue
An audit of a pipeline which leaked more than 200 tonnes of oil into the North Sea was three years overdue, an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive has shown. 20 February 2012 An audit of a pipeline which leaked more than 200 tonnes of oil into the North Sea was three years overdue, [...]
Shell employees sterilized by dibromochloropropane – DBCP
Shell and Dow were aware for more than 20 years that DBCP caused sterility in animals and the shrinking of testicles… A Shell official had instructed that speculation about possible harmful conditions to man should be omitted from registration of the product with the United States Department of Agriculture. By John Donovan On 11 February, [...]
Whistleblower accuses Shell Executive Director, Malcolm Brinded
“Van de Veer was in a tricky situation. The Shell reputation was already in the gutter after the reserves debacle and Brinded was the white knight in shining armour who was to help in the recovery process.” Introduction by John Donovan Former Shell International HSE Group Auditor, Bill Campbell (above right), provides more information about [...]
Retired Shell HSE Group Auditor challenges Scottish Prosecutor
I do not speak for Mr Campbell, but the impression I have is that he believes that Shell has influence in high places within the Scottish establishment. It was extraordinary that after an investigation lasting over two years, the notification of your decision not to prosecute was first conveyed to the whistleblower who sparked the [...]
Shell Gannet Alpha platform in trouble again
By John Donovan It seems that Shell’s Gannet Alpha platform has had another close call. On Monday workers were evacuated and production shut down after natural gas began seeping out from under the platform. All of the ingredients for a disastrous explosion, of the kind that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico, which almost brought [...]
Shell Gannet Alpha platform evacuated over gas leak
9 February 2012 Nearly 50 workers had to be evacuated from a North Sea oil platform after natural gas began seeping out beneath it, it has emerged. Shell said staff were taken off the Gannet Alpha installation on Monday as a precaution. Production was shut down. The oil giant said the incident was not linked [...]
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