Damian Carrington: Sunday 22 May 2016
Shell is involved in blocking the development of a renewable energy project in a legal battle between a private club owned by the company and a community hydropower scheme on the river Thames.
The latest legal moves came just as Shell created a separate division, New Energies, to invest in renewable and low-carbon power.
The site is by the bank of the Lensbury, which was formerly a staff club for Shell employees and is now a hotel and private leisure club. The Lensbury is wholly owned by Shell and its five named directors are all “oil company executives” according to filings to Companies House, including Mike Napier, executive vice-president of external communications at Shell.
“Shell needs to think very hard about what this is doing to its reputation,” said Stephen Knight, Lib Dem councillor for Teddington ward and a member of the London assembly. “An international oil company is using its financial muscle to try to block a community hydropower scheme. This sends all the wrong messages about big oil companies trying to block the development of renewable power.”
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