THE SHELL LEAKS FILES
SLF-2007-019
The Sakhalin Papers IX: The Story Shell Tried to “Kill” — An Unpublished Sunday Times Investigation and the Surviving Paper Trail
Archive Reference: SLF-2007-019
Collection: The Sakhalin Papers
Evidence Standard: Authenticated Shell documents, contemporaneous reporting, formal legal correspondence and statutory material. No court determination is relied upon in this instalment.
Introduction
On Friday 2 February 2007, an internal Shell email circulated under the subject line “Donovan – Sunday Times.”
The message reported that The Sunday Times had picked up a story from the Donovan website concerning leaked Sakhalin and drilling emails. Shell’s Group media office was preparing agreed questions and answers previously used with The Guardian.
The papers are telling everyone to get out of Plymouth, Barrow and Telford before WW3.
When a former nuclear security specialist tells the tabloids which parts of Britain you might not want to be standing in during World War Three, the headlines almost write themselves.
Oh look, another day, another example of Shell doing what Shell does best—putting profit over morality, humanity, and basic decency. This time, the fossil fuel giant has found itself in the middle of a geopolitical scandal, buying Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) while its shipments are escorted by sanctioned, Kremlin-backed nuclear icebreakers.
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