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The National Contact Point (NCP) agency will today give Shell a rap on the knuckles for its reporting of its spills in the Niger Delta region, some of which have been highly damaging to the environment. NCP has reached this conclusion following an investigation into accusations by Amnesty International and Friends of the Earth International [...]

In summary, Finlayson (right) sees himself as a victim to the goings-on in 1999, just one of many victims in the then Shell Expro, described in our Audit notes as a hostile environment of extreme denial.  I can concur that Chris was a victim, when for example he made light of the Touch F-All scandal [...]

Mr Salazar said: “Shell screwed up in 2012 and we’re not going to let them screw up when they try to drill in the Arctic again.” The i: Friday 29 March 2013 Page 48 of Business Section By Tom Bawden Shell’s beleaguered campaign to produce oil in the Arctic has suffered a further setback yesterday� [...]

Campaigners hope move heralds end of programme Kevin Rawlinson� Alex Jackson� Friday 22 March 2013 Shell�s controversial plan to drill in the Arctic has been dealt a further blow after it confirmed today that the man running its exploration programme in North America is to leave the company. Campaigners said they hoped the move heralded [...]

…the City is concerned about Shell’s prospects in the Arctic after the company’s Kulluk drilling rig ran aground off the coast of Alaska on New Year’s Eve. The grounding was the latest in a series of mishaps in Shell’s quest to extract oil from the polar region, which has cost the company �3.2bn but has [...]

The pressure is mounting on Shell to abandon its quest for Arctic oil after the US government ordered two reviews into the company’s activities off the Alaskan coast… after a series of accidents in the area involving its ships, rigs and equipment that culminated in the grounding of the rig Kulluk… The US Coastguard…opened an [...]

“TOUCH F*** ALL” STORY BELOW PUBLISHED IN UK AND AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPERS WAS SOURCED FROM THIS WEBSITE: RoyalDutchShellPlc.com SHELL HAS RESPONDED WITH WHOPPING GREAT LIES AND ACCORDINGLY WILL TAKE NO LEGAL ACTION BECAUSE IT DID OPERATE A TOUCH F*** ALL POLICY ON NORTH SEA PLATFORMS AND SAFETY RECORDS WERE ROUTINELY FALSIFIED. EVEN THE LIFEBOATS ON SHELL [...]

Selection of article links provided by a regular contributor John These articles may be of interest to your visitors: Sandy causes 300000 gallon oil spill on U.S. East Coast Motiva, a joint venture of Shell Oil and Saudi Refining, said the spill occurred earlier this week when Sandy damaged two diesel storage tanks … Shell’s [...]

�From our Shell News Archive Sunday 31 October, 2004 The fallout from the Shell reserves fraud continues… The Independent On Sunday (UK): Business View: Shell’s real location problem is finding more black stuff: �The misreporting of reserves scandal showed all the worst Shell traits – secrecy, haughtiness, inertia.�: �So what’s the hurry? Was it because [...]

FROM OUR OCTOBER 2004 SHELL NEWS ARCHIVE Friday 29 October, 2004 – A DREADFUL DAY FOR SHAREHOLDERS IN SHELL TRANSPORT AND TRADING COMPANY PLC The Times (UK): The Hague for head office: �ALTHOUGH it maintains otherwise, Shell is effectively going Dutch��: �From May, the big decisions will be taken by a new board in The [...]

FROM OUR SHELL NEWS ARCHIVE SEPT 2004 The Independent: Michael Harrison’s Outlook: Shell supertanker steers into deeper waters �brotherly love has been notable for its complete absence inside the South Bank politburo, where the motto has been stab someone in the back before you are made to walk the plank yourself.�: Judging by the reaction [...]

FROM OUR SEPT 2005 SHELL NEWS ARCHIVE The Independent: Ballad of the Rossport five The men held in Ireland’s Cloverhill prison now have not only their own title – the Rossport Five – but their own ballad as well, which lauds their gallantry and decries the energy giant Shell as an “ignoble predator”. �The campaign [...]

FROM OUR AUGUST 2004 SHELL NEWS ARCHIVE� The Independent: Michael Harrison’s Outlook: Money talks for Shell’s singing director �Shell is hardly a byword for good corporate governance, and yesterday it lived up to its reputation by producing another stonker…�: “As usual, Shell is unable to cast any light in the darkness as to why the [...]

Mark Leftly: Sunday 24 June 2012 Royal Dutch Shell is expected to turn up the heat in its battle for Cove Energy, the Mozambique-focused gas explorer that has generated huge interest among the supermajors. Cove shareholders have until Wednesday to accept Shell’s 220p-a-share bid, which was tabled in April but has since been trumped by [...]

Toby Green Wednesday 20 June 2012 Environmentalists may want to look away now. Royal Dutch Shell’s search for oil in the Arctic has not been short of controversy, coming under attack from, among others, Xena: Warrior Princess actor Lucy Lawless, who earlier in the year boarded one of the energy giant’s ships in protest against [...]