Within 48 hours of the ODonnell incident gardai announced unequivocally that they have found no evidence to support claims by a prominent Shell to Sea protester that armed commandos sank his shellfish boat off the coast of Mayo last week.
September, 2009:
Questions raised over Gardia policing of the controversial Shell Corrib Gas Project
Anyone out there taking bets on how long Shell will exist?
Posting on Shell Blog by a Shell Insider (a reliable high level source known to us)
Having seen all the EC-1 and -2 appointments and from many discussions I have with colleagues, it has become clear to me that Voser and Brinded et all want to get rid of critical thinking people in general and Petroleum Engineers in particular, i.e. just the people who have know-how on essential matters such as reserves and production forecasting.
The reserves reporting is now solidly in the hands of lawyers so easy to manipulate for Brinded (above). The overoptimistic production forecasting, a great hobby of our beloved and surpreme leader in Upstream, will now go unchallenged by people with genuine know-how.
Selection of Royal Dutch Shell articles from our archives
Royal Dutch Shell Fat Cat Malcolm Brinded: Big Brain but no scruples, 28 May 2009
Toxic ethical ranking of Royal Dutch Shell, 17 Feb 2009
Royal Dutch Shell Pension Fund Meltdown, 21 Dec 2008
Royal Dutch Shell in U.S. Courts accused of more IP theft, 12 Aug 2008
Shells Shocking Track Record of Unethical Trading in USA, 12 Apr 2008
THE SADISTIC SACKING OF SHELL CHIEF EXECUTIVE WALTER VAN DE VIJVER, 16 Nov 2007
Erin Brockovich goes after Shell Oil in Carson
dailybreeze.com
By Gene Maddaus Staff Writer Posted: 09/22/2009 10:11:13 AM PDTEnvironmental activist Erin Brockovich (right) has agreed to pursue litigation against Shell Oil Co. for contaminating a Carson housing tract.
Shell recently discovered elevated levels of methane and benzene underneath the Carousel neighborhood. The contamination has been traced to underground oil tanks the company operated on the site until the 1960s.
Girardi and Keese, the law firm that works with Brockovich, held a meeting with about 300 residents Saturday in Carson to recruit clients for a lawsuit against Shell, which could be filed as soon as November.
Interior Dept. institutes ethics program
The departments conduct has been called into question several times during the past several years, including a controversial oil payment scheme, and a corruption investigation of George W. Bushs Interior chief Gale Norton over her support of oil-shale exploration by a Royal Dutch Shell subsidiary months before the oil giant hired her as a legal counsel.
Shell Chief Ethics Officer Richard Wiseman Refutes Accusations
The statement that "Shell has never been involved in atomic or nuclear research at the Thornton site or elsewhere in the U.K." appears to be at odds with allegations made by former Shell employee James Featherstone, in a letter he sent on 2 May 2009 to Detective Inspector Nick Sumner c/o Homicide & Serious Crime Command at New Scotland Yard.
Pecten Shines at Shell
Issue Date: CSP Daily News, September 21, 2009
HOUSTON — Shell unveiled its new “visual identity standard” for Shell retail sites. Updating the company’s Retail Visual Identity (RVI) designed in 1992, the new lookdubbed RVIeis “an evolutionary change,” according to spokesperson Michael Clingan.“RVIe maintains the core branding colors in a refreshed and modernized look to ensure that Shell continues to express fuel leadership yet it can naturally integrate with the existing network of RVI sites,” he told CSP Daily News. “Additionally, RVIe reduces costs to the business through the simplification of the Shell curviness to more modern proportions and angles which is easier to implement and manage.”
Highlights of the RVIe Design are:
Gazprom, Shell discuss LNG at Sakhalin
MOSCOW, Sept. 21 (UPI) — The newly appointed head of Royal Dutch Shell met with a delegation from Russian gas monopoly Gazprom to discuss liquefied natural gas developments.
Alexei Miller, the chief executive at Gazprom, met with Shell’s Peter Voser to discuss progress at the Sakhalin-2 project.
Voser took the reins at Royal Dutch Shell in July.
Gazprom and Shell signed a 20-year deal on gas pipeline development and liquefied natural gas purchases from Sakhalin facilities in April. That deal followed the first LNG shipments from Sakhalin-2 to Asian markets.
Shell Energy Closes on Acquisition of Integrys Energy Services’ Canadian Natural…
HOUSTON, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Shell Energy North America (Canada) Inc., a subsidiary of Shell Energy North America (US), L.P. (Shell Energy), today announced it closed on its acquisition of the Canadian natural gas and power customer contract portfolio of Integrys Energy Services of Canada Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Integrys Energy Services, Inc.
Shell Stanlow Refinery Auction: Employees to Meet Offsite
An offsite meeting is being held this week to bring all Shell Stanlow employees – union and non-union – up to date with what the Unite Union has been doing since news of the Shell Strategic Review was leaked.
It will also be an opportunity for them to listen to some guest speakers, ask questions and raise any concerns they may have.
Speakers include:
· Andrew Miller, MP for Ellesmere Port and Neston
· Graham Daley, Full Time Official (Unite the Union)
The false bravado of Shell Ethics Chief Richard Wiseman
John Donovan
In an email dated 11 November 2005, Shell International General Counsel Richard Wiseman (now the Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer of Royal Dutch Shell Plc) dismissed our website in the following words:
“The extraordinary tolerance shown to your internet activities ought to demonstrate better than anything else the fact that we are uninterested in, and unmoved by, your current activities.”
Wiseman’s bravado was undermined by the fact that we already had evidence to the contrary from an email about us that he sent on 24 June 2004 to Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer and his fellow Executive director, Malcolm Brinded. Wiseman informed them that he was contacting Sir Mark Moody-Stuart (a former Shell Group Chairman) about us. Wiseman’s email (supplied to us by a high level insider source) also confirmed that Shell “PX” was briefed and ready to react behind the scenes to our activities.
Putin to meet global majors on Yamal gas projects
Industry sources said invitations had gone to the chief executives of Total, Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon Mobil, ConocoPhillips, StatoilHydro, ONGC, Petronas as well as Russia's gas export monopoly Gazprom and local gas and oil firms.
How timely from Dilbert. It might just be that Gale Norton was hired this way
From a Shell insider
How timely from Dilbert. It might just be that Gale Norton was hired this way. Two stomps of the hoof: hire her. Three stomps of the hoof: sign-on bonus, retention bonus and guaranteed exit bonus.
But knowing Shell, there has to be a process with records, protocols, tickmarks in square boxes and all these things leave traces.
And all this nonsense to get access to some acreage that will never be used because it simply is too costly and devastating on the environment. But that was another department .
Delta Farce: Nigeria’s Oil Mess
The lack of development has left many young people unemployed and frustrated. In August, a new militant group emerged. It calls itself the Urhobo Revolutionary Army, after the ethnic group based primarily in the Delta. The group has taken credit for the August bombing of a Shell-run gas plant.
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Gale Norton investigation: the Stink of Royal Dutch Shell Corruption: 17 September 2009
Job Cut Rumors Circulating Inside Royal Dutch Shell : 16 September 2009
Shell Job Cuts Torture: 13 September 2009
Shells Ruthless Exploitation of Gas Station Operators: 10 September 2009
Stanlow Refinery Workers Ready to Fight Shell: 10 Sept 2009
Massive Shell Job Cuts, Again: 6 September 2009
Shell EP staff to be cut by 15%?: 4 September 2009
Scottish Authorities deepen investigation into alleged Shell Corruption: 25 August 2009
US Corruption Investigation into Royal Dutch Shell Plc General Counsel
Justice targets Bush Cabinet official in probe
By JOHN HEILPRIN AND DINA CAPPIELLO
WASHINGTON The Justice Department has launched an investigation into whether former Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton illegally used her position to steer lucrative oil leases to Royal Dutch Shell PLC, the company she works for now, officials with both departments confirmed to The Associated Press.
The criminal investigation is focused on a 2006 decision by the Interior Department to award three oil shale leases on federal land in Colorado to a Shell subsidiary. Oil from the leases could eventually earn the company hundreds of billions dollars.