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Suing Shell: What It Takes to Hold a Polluter to Account

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byPrimrose Hill Lecture Series Part of the Primrose Hill Lecture Series 2026 collection Church of St Mary the virgin Primrose HillLondon, Greater London Wednesday 30 September • 7 PM – 9 PM Overview

Environmental lawyer Dan Leader in conversation with author & journalist Steve Crawshaw

Suing Shell: What It Takes to Hold a Polluter to Account

7pm, Wednesday 30th September

Environmental lawyer Dan Leader in conversation with author & journalist Steve Crawshaw

Q: WHAT HAPPENS, when ordinary people demand that one of Britain’s largest companies, Royal Dutch Shell, cleans up its pollution? read more

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Shell Singapore Charged Over Pulau Bukom Oil Leaks and Alleged Reporting Delays

Sep 22nd, 2026

by John Donovan.

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Shell Singapore has been formally charged over two oil pollution incidents at its Pulau Bukom refinery, including allegations that the company failed to report the discharges to Singapore authorities without delay.

The charges, filed on 22 September 2026 under Singapore’s Prevention of Pollution of the Sea Act, relate to separate incidents in October and December 2024 at the Shell Singapore Energy and Chemicals Park on Pulau Bukom.

According to Channel NewsAsia, the first incident involved approximately 40 tonnes of oily mixture being discharged into Singapore waters through a hole in a pipeline within Shell’s refining facility at about 8am on 20 October 2024. (CNA)

The charge alleges that Shell did not notify the port master until approximately 12.55pm that day. (CNA) read more

Shell’s $95 Million Monaca Explosion: US Safety Board Finds Preventable Hazards Behind Furnace Blas

Sep 16th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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The US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) has completed its investigation into the June 4, 2025 explosion and fire at Shell Polymers Monaca in Pennsylvania, an incident that caused extensive damage to the giant petrochemical complex and could, under slightly different circumstances, have had far more serious consequences.

The central finding is troubling: a known potentially catastrophic hazard was being controlled largely through procedures and human intervention when an engineered safeguard could have provided a stronger line of defence. read more

THE SHELL LEAKS FILES: 15 SEPTEMBER 2026

Sep 15th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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THE SHELL LEAKS FILES: 15 SEPTEMBER 2026

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The Sakhalin Papers XLVIII: “A Philosophical Difference” — When Regulatory Compliance Was Not Enough for the Scientists

In November 2020, Sakhalin Energy and its independent scientific advisers arrived at an unusually candid point of disagreement. The company could satisfy Russian regulatory requirements and still fail to satisfy the evidential standards expected by the Western Gray Whale Advisory Panel. The meeting record captured the difference in a phrase rarely encountered in corporate environmental reporting: there would always be a “philosophical difference” between conservation scientists and an oil company.

1. A meeting held in exceptional circumstances

The 21st meeting of the Western Gray Whale Advisory Panel — WGWAP — took place by videoconference from 17 to 19 November 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

By then the Panel had spent well over a decade advising Sakhalin Energy on the protection of the endangered gray whales feeding off north-eastern Sakhalin.

Shell’s own Sustainability Report 2020 described WGWAP as an independent scientific panel established by IUCN to help mitigate environmental impacts. Shell stated that the Panel continued to advise Sakhalin Energy, in which Shell then held a 27.5% interest, and that WGWAP was preparing its final conclusions for release in 2021. (Shell) read more

Books About Shell

Sep 9th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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Books About Shell: An Expanded Bibliography

Introduction

Royal Dutch Shell, now Shell plc, has generated an unusually large body of literature stretching from official corporate histories and executive memoirs to academic studies, environmental investigations, human-rights accounts and books written by people directly involved in disputes with the company.

The bibliography below includes:

histories commissioned or published by Shell;
independent corporate histories;
biographies of important Shell figures;
books about particular Shell businesses and projects;
books concerning Nigeria, Ogoni and Ken Saro-Wiwa;
books about Brent Spar and Corrib;
studies of Shell’s celebrated scenario-planning system;
broader histories of the international oil industry in which Shell is a significant subject;
and Amazon Kindle books by John Donovan concerning his long-running relationship with Shell.

The descriptions below are original summaries rather than reproductions of publishers’ copyrighted descriptions.

Early Royal Dutch and Shell Histories

1934

An International Oil Man

Author: Sir Henri Deterding, as told to Stanley Naylor
Format: Print read more

COMING TOMORROW: Inside the Shell Nigeria Files

Aug 12th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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A new daily investigation into the documents behind the battle over Shell, oil pollution and accountability in the Niger Delta

Tomorrow we begin something substantial.

Over the coming days and weeks, we will be examining a remarkable collection of documents concerning Shell’s operations in Nigeria, oil pollution in the Niger Delta, pipeline integrity, oil theft, environmental damage and what senior personnel inside the company knew about the problems confronting its operations.

And we intend to examine them one story at a time.

Not with slogans.

Not by pretending allegations are proven facts.

And not by accepting corporate explanations without examining the documentary record behind them. read more

Toxic Timeline of Royal Dutch Shell Group, Now Shell plc

Jun 15th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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Toxic Timeline of Royal Dutch Shell Group, Now Shell plc

Updated 15 June 2026

This page is a chronological guide to some of the most controversial episodes in the history of Royal Dutch Shell Group, now Shell plc. It links regulatory findings, court records, mainstream journalism, campaign archives, ShellNews.net material, RoyalDutchShellPlc.com material, ShellNaziHistory.com, and John Donovan’s Shell archive.

The word “toxic” is used here in its broad public-interest sense: toxic products, toxic spills, toxic governance, toxic secrecy, toxic reputational fallout, and toxic historical associations. This page is not a court judgment. Where a matter is disputed, alleged, settled without admission, or based on campaign material, the wording says so. read more

A Deep Dive Into the Most Spectacular Own Goal in Corporate Legal History

Jun 8th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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OVER TWO DECADES AGO SHELL UNSUCCESSFULLY TRIED TO SEIZE THIS WEBSITE DOMAIN NAME: ROYALDUTCHSHELLPLC.COM. THERE HAVE BEEN SPECTACULARLY EMBARRASSING CONSEQUENCES FOR SHELL, INCLUDING WRITTEN PERMISSION FOR JOHN DONOVAN TO DEAL ON SHELL’S BEHALF WITH EMAILS MEANT FOR SHELL.
‘Alfred Donovan was right about the culture of deception. He was right about the reserves. He was right about the spies. He was right about Nigeria. He was right about Hakluyt. He beat Shell in the High Court, in the WIPO proceedings, and in the court of public opinion.’

By our Special Correspondent in the Department of Ironic Outcomes

There is a particular kind of hubris that afflicts very large organisations — the unshakeable belief that, because you employ 119,000 people across 145 countries and own more than 3,300 trademarks in nearly 190 nations, you are entitled to win everything. Every lawsuit. Every arbitration. Every domain name dispute. Every confrontation with a retired British marketing consultant and his octogenarian father.

Royal Dutch Shell — now rebranded to the snappier “Shell plc,” presumably in an effort to distance itself from its own history — learned this lesson the hard way in the summer of 2005, when it filed a 44-page complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) demanding that one Alfred Donovan, an 87-year-old war pensioner operating from 847a Second Avenue, New York, hand over three domain names: royaldutchshellplc.com, royaldutchshellgroup.com, and tellshell.org. read more

Claude: Shell’s Greatest Hits: A Comprehensive Guide to Being the World’s Most Hated Brand

Jun 4th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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A satirical summary by Claude of John Donovan’s book “Toxic Facts About Shell Removed From Wikipedia. Image by ChatGPT.

The Wikipedia Problem, or: How a Global Oil Giant Developed an Allergy to Facts

In what is surely the most surprising development in the history of the internet — a company with $35 billion in annual profits was apparently terrified of a retired marketing man and his elderly father living in Colchester, Essex — John Donovan opens this cheerful tour of corporate malfeasance by explaining that Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia anyone can edit, has been systematically “cleansed” of accurate, sourced, verifiable information about Royal Dutch Shell. Shell employees, it transpires, were caught editing Wikipedia articles from Shell offices. The company, naturally, claimed to have been completely unaware that the people it employed were doing this. One must admire the logic: when you have tens of thousands of employees, it is simply impossible to know what any of them are up to. read more

SHELL’S $83 MILLION CLEAN-UP BRAWL: THE NORTHERN ENDEAVOUR MESS RETURNS TO COURT

May 31st, 2026

by John Donovan.

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THE NORTHERN ENDEAVOUR BLAME GAME: BIG OIL’S CLEAN-UP BILL GOES TO COURT.

A rusting offshore oil relic. A taxpayer-backed clean-up. A special levy. Former owners pointing fingers. And Shell, naturally, marching into court to insist someone else should pick up the bill.

PART ONE: THE FACT-BASED TABLOID DEEP DIVE

There are oil industry messes.

Then there is the Northern Endeavour: a floating monument to the fossil-fuel sector’s favourite disappearing act — pump the oil, bank the proceeds, sell the ageing asset, then act shocked when the clean-up bill turns up wearing steel-capped boots.

Now Shell Australia is reportedly back in Western Australia’s Supreme Court with a fresh claim of about $83 million against Woodside Energy and Paladin, dragging the long-running Northern Endeavour clean-up row into yet another legal chapter. read more

SHELL BACK IN THE CLIMATE DOCK: THE OIL GIANT, THE DUTCH SUPREME COURT, AND THE WORLD’S MOST EXPENSIVE GAME OF “NOT OUR FAULT”

May 22nd, 2026

by John Donovan.

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DISCLAIMER:
This article is opinion and commentary. It is satirical, critical, and based on publicly reported information. It is not financial advice, investment advice, or legal advice. Readers should consult original sources and professional advisers where appropriate. Site wide disclaimer also applies.

PART ONE: THE FACT-BASED TABLOID DEEP DIVE

🔥 THE HAGUE STRIKES BACK: SHELL’S CLIMATE CASE RETURNS LIKE A BAD SMELL FROM THE REFINERY

There are courtroom dramas, and then there is Shell’s Dutch climate saga: a long-running legal opera in which Europe’s biggest oil and gas company is dragged back before the judges while insisting, with the solemn dignity of a man standing beside a smoking barbecue, that forcing it to cut emissions would be terribly unhelpful. read more

SHELL V-POWER: THE PETROL PUMP MIRACLE JUICE THAT WANTS YOUR ENGINE — AND YOUR WALLET — TO FEEL SPECIAL

May 20th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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Shell’s premium V-Power fuel is back in the spotlight, promising cleaner engines, better protection, and “more” of almost everything. But for drivers with long memories, the phrase “Shell wonder fuel” comes with a faint smell of burnt valves, marketing hype, and very expensive déjà vu.

DISCLAIMER

This article is opinion and satirical commentary based on cited public sources. It is not financial advice, consumer advice, engineering advice, or a recommendation to buy, avoid, invest in, or rely on any Shell product or security. Drivers should follow their vehicle manufacturer’s fuel recommendations and seek qualified mechanical advice where appropriate. Site wide disclaimer also applies.

PART ONE: FACT-BASED TABLOID DEEP DIVE

THE RETURN OF THE WONDER FUEL WAGON

There are few things Big Oil enjoys more than selling fossil fuel as if it were a wellness product. read more

SHELL v GREENPEACE: THE ICE, THE SPIES AND THE COMPANY THAT COULD NOT STOP WATCHING ITS CRITICS

Apr 25th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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A vast Arctic seascape at dusk. Shell-branded icebreakers grind through cracked ice toward a drilling rig while Greenpeace activists unfurl banners from a small vessel. Above the scene, a giant translucent eye made from documents, camera lenses, email printouts and spy files watches everything. Dark satirical editorial style, cinematic lighting, high contrast, sharp detail. Enlarge image.

How Shell’s long war with Greenpeace ran from Brent Spar to Arctic drilling, Hakluyt’s undercover games, the Phillips letters, and the uncomfortable Donovan surveillance trail

PART ONE: FACT-BASED TABLOID DEEP DIVE

THE ICE, THE COURTS AND THE CORPORATE PEARL-CLUTCHING

There are corporate rivalries. There are activist campaigns. And then there is Shell versus Greenpeace — a decades-long opera of rigs, boycotts, court orders, Arctic ice, reputational carnage and, lurking in the wings, the little matter of private intelligence, undercover activity, and Shell critics wondering exactly who was watching whom. read more

INSIDE THE PERMIT BATTLES: WHAT SHELL DOESN’T WANT HIGHLIGHTED

Apr 11th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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💥 The Shell cracker plant story isn’t just about jobs. Behind the headlines and hearings lies a quieter story—of emissions, enforcement, and a regulatory system under pressure.

🏗️ INTRO: WHERE THE REAL FIGHT IS HAPPENING

The Shell cracker plant story isn’t just about jobs.

Or promises.

Or even pollution.

👉 It’s about permits.

Because in the world of mega-projects, permits are everything:

They define what’s allowed
They set the limits
And crucially—they determine what happens when those limits are exceeded

And in Beaver County, that system is now under the spotlight.

⚖️ PERMITS: THE RULEBOOK—AND THE LOOPHOLES

On paper, the system is simple:

👉 Companies receive permits with strict environmental limits

👉 Regulators monitor compliance read more

Shell’s Eternal Green Makeover Meets Its Fossil-Fuel Reality Check

Apr 10th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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ChatGPT: A split-scene illustration: Left side: 1995 Brent Spar protest—angry crowds, burning Shell logos, ocean backdrop. Right side: 2026 corporate ad—lush green fields, wind turbines, smiling executives. In the centre: A giant Shell logo acting as a mask—being held up in front of an oil rig still pumping furiously behind it. Tagline across the image: “Same Company. New Costume.”

🌍 From Brent Spar to Green PR: Has Shell Really Changed—Or Just Changed the Script?

If Shell had a pound for every time it declared a moral awakening, it could probably fund the energy transition it keeps talking about.

Instead, here we are in 2026, watching the oil giant once again attempt its favourite corporate trick: the Great Green Reinvention™.

New faces. New slogans. Same uncomfortable questions.

💥 FLASHBACK: THE DAY SHELL GOT CAUGHT

Let’s rewind to 1995—the moment Shell discovered that public opinion can, occasionally, ruin a perfectly good disposal plan. read more

claude.ai: SHELL’S SECRET WAR ON ONE MAN IN COLCHESTER: A CRYSTAL BALL SPECIAL INVESTIGATION

Mar 23rd, 2026

by John Donovan.

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Part 1: claude.ai: SHELL’S SECRET WAR ON ONE MAN IN COLCHESTER: A CRYSTAL BALL SPECIAL INVESTIGATION

…a global internal surveillance operation triggered by one website

## *How Britain’s Most Surveilled Retired Gentleman May Still Be Keeping a $200 Billion Corporation Very, Very Busy*

*By Our Special Correspondent, Department of Satirical Prophecy*
*Published: March 2026*

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> *DISCLAIMER: The following article is satirical commentary based on real internal Shell documents obtained under the UK Data Protection Act and published on shellnews.net. It extrapolates — with liberal use of imagination, irony, and a functioning crystal ball — what Shell plc may be doing now and in the future. Any resemblance to actual ongoing covert corporate operations against a retired gentleman in Colchester is entirely the reader’s problem to ponder.* read more

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Pollution

Suing Shell: What It Takes to Hold a Polluter to Account

7pm, Wednesday 30th September

Shell Singapore has been formally charged over two oil pollution incidents at its Pulau Bukom refinery, including allegations that the company failed to report the discharges to Singapore authorities without delay.

THE SHELL LEAKS FILES: 15 SEPTEMBER 2026

SLF-2007-058

The Sakhalin Papers XLVIII: “A Philosophical Difference” — When Regulatory Compliance Was Not Enough for the Scientists

1. A meeting held in exceptional circumstances

Books About Shell: An Expanded Bibliography

Introduction

Early Royal Dutch and Shell Histories

1934

A new daily investigation into the documents behind the battle over Shell, oil pollution and accountability in the Niger Delta

Toxic Timeline of Royal Dutch Shell Group, Now Shell plc

*By our Special Correspondent in the Department of Ironic Outcomes*

The Wikipedia Problem, or: How a Global Oil Giant Developed an Allergy to Facts

THE NORTHERN ENDEAVOUR BLAME GAME: BIG OIL’S CLEAN-UP BILL GOES TO COURT.

PART ONE: THE FACT-BASED TABLOID DEEP DIVE

PART ONE: THE FACT-BASED TABLOID DEEP DIVE

🔥 THE HAGUE STRIKES BACK: SHELL’S CLIMATE CASE RETURNS LIKE A BAD SMELL FROM THE REFINERY

Shell’s premium V-Power fuel is back in the spotlight, promising cleaner engines, better protection, and “more” of almost everything. But for drivers with long memories, the phrase “Shell wonder fuel” comes with a faint smell of burnt valves, marketing hype, and very expensive déjà vu.

DISCLAIMER

PART ONE: FACT-BASED TABLOID DEEP DIVE

THE RETURN OF THE WONDER FUEL WAGON

How Shell’s long war with Greenpeace ran from Brent Spar to Arctic drilling, Hakluyt’s undercover games, the Phillips letters, and the uncomfortable Donovan surveillance trail

PART ONE: FACT-BASED TABLOID DEEP DIVE

THE ICE, THE COURTS AND THE CORPORATE PEARL-CLUTCHING

💥 The Shell cracker plant story isn’t just about jobs. Behind the headlines and hearings lies a quieter story—of emissions, enforcement, and a regulatory system under pressure.

🏗️ INTRO: WHERE THE REAL FIGHT IS HAPPENING

⚖️ PERMITS: THE RULEBOOK—AND THE LOOPHOLES

🌍 From Brent Spar to Green PR: Has Shell Really Changed—Or Just Changed the Script?

💥 FLASHBACK: THE DAY SHELL GOT CAUGHT

Part 1: claude.ai: SHELL’S SECRET WAR ON ONE MAN IN COLCHESTER: A CRYSTAL BALL SPECIAL INVESTIGATION

…a global internal surveillance operation triggered by one website

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