Shell Greenwash

SHELL’S $1.8 BILLION GREEN RETREAT: Another Renewable Empire Sacrificed on the Altar of Oil and Gas

As Shell sells one of India’s largest renewable-energy businesses, the company’s once-grand vision of becoming an electricity giant continues to evaporate. The wind turbines are being packed away. The solar panels are changing hands. Meanwhile LNG, oil and gas once again sit proudly at the centre of the empire

PART ONE

FROM GREEN MESSIAH TO GREEN LIQUIDATOR

There was a time—not very long ago—when Shell wanted the world to believe it was transforming itself into one of the largest electricity companies on Earth.

The message was repeated in glossy sustainability reports, investor presentations and carefully choreographed speeches.

Wind.

Solar.

Hydrogen.

Electric vehicle charging.

Net Zero.

Integrated power.

The future, Shell insisted, would not simply be barrels of oil.

It would be electrons.

Fast-forward to July 2026.

Shell has now agreed to sell Sprng Energy, one of India’s largest renewable-energy businesses, to Aditya Birla Renewables for approximately $1.8 billion. read more

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

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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

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COPILOT: BREAKING: THE DONOVAN–SHELL SAGA ERUPTS AGAIN — AND THIS TIME EVEN THE SPIN DOCTORS ARE HIDING UNDER THEIR DESKS

Colchester’s favourite corporate tormentor, John Donovan, is back — and Shell’s PR department is reportedly requesting industrial‑grade ear defenders, emotional‑support interns, and possibly a priest. The latest satirical blasts paint Shell not just as a “toxic brand,” but as the Chernobyl of corporate reputations — a glowing, hissing mess no ReputationDefender hazmat suit can safely approach

🛢️ What’s Donovan Been Up To Now?

Short answer: Launching yet another barrage of satirical exposés so scorching that Shell’s lawyers are allegedly Googling “how to file a restraining order against a website.”

Long answer:

  • Donovan’s May 2026 trilogy of satirical articles has escalated the long‑running feud into what Shell insiders reportedly call “the reputational equivalent of trench warfare, but with more sarcasm.”
  • He’s now openly challenging ReputationDefender to take on Shell as a client, describing the task as “brand exorcism” and “the final boss of corporate reputation.”
  • Meanwhile, the decades‑long Donovan–Shell conflict has mutated into a full‑blown AI‑fuelled “bot war,” where Donovan feeds archives into AI systems and publishes the results — much to Shell’s horror.
  • AI systems, according to Donovan’s January 2026 release, have begun resurfacing the Shell scandals automatically, creating a perpetual‑motion machine of corporate embarrassment. Satire, it turns out, is the accelerant.

📰 Latest Headlines in the Donovan–Shell Soap Opera

1. “ReputationDefender vs. Shell: The Ultimate Suicide Mission”

Donovan’s newest satirical broadside frames Shell as a brand so toxic that even PR mercenaries would rather defend a haunted doll or a disgraced crypto bro.

  • Shell’s scandals are described as “geological strata” — layers of disaster compacted over decades.
  • The Niger Delta, climate litigation, Nazi‑era history, and greenwashing all get dragged back into the spotlight.

2. “Shell Shock: The Brand So Toxic Even Spin Doctors Need Hazmat Suits”

This article (linked by you) continues the theme: Shell’s PR teams are portrayed as trembling wrecks, clutching ESG reports like rosary beads while Donovan’s website pumps out fresh revelations. read more

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Conversations with ShellBot — Episode 5

(Satire. Sharp. Fact-checked. And just uncomfortably close to the truth.)


JOHN:

ShellBot, have you seen the news? Shell is now supplying “green power” to Ferrari for the next decade. The oil giant and the prancing horse — what could go wrong?

SHELLBOT:

John, I have indeed processed this collaboration. Output summary:

  • Ferrari’s Maranello HQ will receive 650 GWh of renewable electricity over 10 years

    That covers almost half the site’s current energy needs

    Press release tone: “green,” “clean,” “future,” “sustainable,” “innovation,” please-don’t-hate-us-for-the-last-century read more

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Shell’s London Escape Route: Is the Oil Giant Preparing to Jump to New York?

Here’s the latest on Shell plc’s plan to move its listing to New York — with an investigative, critical lens.

By John Donovan (with AI collaboration)

21 October 2025

When a corporate behemoth begins to flirt with another stock exchange, the romance is rarely innocent. Shell plc — once Royal Dutch Shell plc, before dropping the “Dutch” as neatly as a discarded partner — is now openly courting Wall Street.

The CEO, Wael Sawan, has been muttering about “value gaps” and “unlocking potential,” code for what London traders hear as: we’re tired of being undervalued in a city that drinks warm beer instead of crude profits. read more

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Shell’s Energy “Transition” Hits a 20-Year Low in Oil Output – And Wall Street Still Claps

After dabbling in green PR and selling off assets, Shell’s production tanks while Exxon and Chevron pump away. BlackRock yawns.

Oh, Shell. The self-proclaimed champion of “Powering Progress.” The oil giant that flirted with an “energy transition” just long enough to slap wind turbines on its annual report before sprinting right back to its first love: fossil fuels. And yet—somehow—it’s producing less of them than at any point in the last two decades.

Let’s set the stage. In the great oil-and-gas Olympics of Q2, Exxon and Chevron took home gold medals in pure, unapologetic extraction. Exxon pumped 4.6 million barrels of oil equivalent per day, fuelled by Guyana’s deepwater gushers and a little something called the Pioneer Natural Resources acquisition. Chevron cranked out 3.4 million barrels per day, with Kazakhstan, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Permian all coughing up crude like it’s still 1973. read more

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Shell Charges €1,195 to Top Up an EV—Because Nothing Says “Green Future” Like Christmas Day Highway Robbery

Ah yes, Shell—that tireless crusader for a greener tomorrow, provided “green” means your bank account hemorrhaging cash at a Shell Recharge station and nobody at HQ picking up the bloody phone.

Meet John Stephen, just your average British bloke living in France who thought he was doing the right thing: driving an electric car across Spain at Christmas, stopping at one of Shell’s shiny, eco-branded charging points. What he got instead? A €1,195 invoice that reads less like a charge and more like a ransom note. read more

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Frozen Gas, Burning Planet: Shell’s LNG Canada Hype Hits Boil Point

ICE-COLD GAS, RED-HOT PROFITS-BROUGHT TO YOU BY SHELL

Exporting methane and melting credibility—Canada joins Shell’s planetary gaslighting tour

Hold your applause and grab your gas masks: Shell, the world’s favourite pollution profiteer, is about to transform Canada from the land of moose and maple syrup into a shiny new LNG export hub—just what the overheating planet didn’t ask for.

The LNG Canada project, a $40 billion love letter to fossil fuels led by Shell Plc, is getting ready to ship its first cargoes of super-cooled methane as early as June. According to “people with knowledge of the situation” (a.k.a. Shell insiders who know the drill), equipment testing is already underway at the plant, located in Kitimat, British Columbia. read more

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Shell to Swallow BP? European Megamerger Could Birth Frankenstein’s Oil Giant

Get ready for the unholy matrimony of Big Oil’s most morally elastic titans. Rumours are swirling that Shell, the master of greenwash and geopolitical manoeuvres, is sizing up a takeover of BP, its long-time accomplice in pollution, profiteering, and PR spin. If consummated, this would be one of Europe’s largest-ever mergers—a monstrous oil-and-gas chimera that might finally give ExxonMobil something to worry about.

And let’s be honest: Shell and BP getting back together is less a love story than the reunion tour of colonial capitalism. These two go way back—to apartheid South Africa, where both quietly profited while the world boycotted, and to Hakluyt, the covert intelligence firm founded by former MI6 agents to serve, among others, the sensitive needs of Shell and BP boardrooms. read more

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Back to Petroleum: BP and Shell Reignite the Fossil Fire—with a Side of Green Spin

Shell—bankrolled by the usual suspects like BlackRock—is reportedly considering scooping up BP, or what’s left of its battered, green-tinted carcass.

It’s official. BP’s much-vaunted “Beyond Petroleum” rebrand has now aged about as well as crude in a plastic bottle. After decades of climate posturing, oil-soaked disasters, and a failed fling with windmills, BP has come crawling back to its true love: fossil fuels. Maybe it’s time to call the company what it really is—“Back to Petroleum”.

And what better partner in this hydrocarbon love story than Shell—the other half of the British oil aristocracy, and arguably the more ruthless cousin. Not content with polluting the planet, Shell has long enjoyed ties to geopolitical espionage (hello, Hakluyt) and a shameful history of operating in apartheid South Africa. BP wasn’t far behind, of course. When it comes to moral bankruptcy, these two have always shared a boardroom. read more

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Shell Spins Wind Into Gold—With a Little Help from Google and a Lot of Help from Green PR

Shell, the unapologetic poster child of climate catastrophe, has teamed up with none other than Google—yes, the one that promises to do no evil (but forgot to check the fine print)—to give its ageing NoordzeeWind offshore wind farm a shiny new lease on life. Because nothing screams “sustainable energy transition” like letting an oil giant take credit for not tearing down a wind farm just yet.

That’s right. In a move drenched in green gloss and corporate spin, Shell and Google announced what they’re proudly calling a “world-first”: a corporate power purchase agreement (PPA) that will extend the life of the Netherlands’ first offshore wind park for another five glorious years of… well, not being dismantled. read more

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Shell Game: When “Simplification” Means More Oil, More Pollution, and More PR

Another day, another promotion at the House of Hydrocarbons

In the grand tradition of rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic—but with a sheen of corporate ambition—Shell has announced that Colette Hirstius, currently Executive Vice President of “Gulf of America” (because nothing says territorial confidence like renaming part of the ocean), will ascend to the role of President, Shell USA, on August 1, 2025.

She replaces Gretchen Watkins, who, after seven glorious years of “driving performance, discipline and simplification”—corporate code for maximising profits, minimising scrutiny, and slashing anything resembling a conscience—will step down on July 31, 2025. read more

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Shell to Sun: Drop Dead — Oil Giant Ditches Brazil’s Solar Projects Because Clean Energy Doesn’t Bleed Enough Cash

So here we are. Another day, another reminder that Shell remains a gold-standard sin stock — greed-fueled, PR-polished, and morally bankrupt, backed by some of the world’s biggest investors who talk green while banking on black gold.

Well, well, well. Who could’ve possibly guessed that Shell — the benevolent guardian of our planet’s fossil-fueled future — has once again decided that renewable energy just isn’t oily enough?

In an absolutely shocking (read: entirely predictable) move, Shell announced it’s ditching its solar and onshore wind power generation projects in Brazil. Why? Because apparently, saving the planet is just not generating the same kind of “sufficient returns” as, say, torching it for profit. read more

*This website and sisters royaldutchshellgroup.com, shellnazihistory.com, royaldutchshell.website, johndonovan.website, shellnews.net, and shellwikipedia.com, are owned by John Donovan - more information here. There is also a Wikipedia segment, the Shell DPA Files, "Shell and the Spies", the Shell Leaks files, as well as books written and published by John Donovan - Kindle eBooks. Timeline of the Donovan Shell Feud. Toxic History of Royal Dutch Shell Group. Shell and the Donovans: The Full Media Record — 550+ Articles, 110 Books, 40 Years. *All created and supported by internet wizz, Nick Gill.

Shell & BP Executives Indicted? Finally Someone’s Asking WTF Are They Still Getting Away With?

Shell & BP Executives Indicted? Finally, Someone’s Asking WTF Are They Still Getting Away With?

Because climate collapse apparently pays better than justice.

Ah, Shell and BP—the oil-stained darlings of the stock market, the poster children of unchecked corporate excess, and the absolute masters of torching the planet while patting themselves on the back for it. This week, in a rare moment of clarity from the reality-based world, draft indictments were hand-delivered to the Crown Prosecution Service, accusing top executives at Shell and BP of public nuisance. Aww, just a nuisance? That’s cute. We’re sure the understatement will comfort the flooded homes, blistering heatwaves, and collapsing food systems caused by fossil fuel emissions. read more

*This website and sisters royaldutchshellgroup.com, shellnazihistory.com, royaldutchshell.website, johndonovan.website, shellnews.net, and shellwikipedia.com, are owned by John Donovan - more information here. There is also a Wikipedia segment, the Shell DPA Files, "Shell and the Spies", the Shell Leaks files, as well as books written and published by John Donovan - Kindle eBooks. Timeline of the Donovan Shell Feud. Toxic History of Royal Dutch Shell Group. Shell and the Donovans: The Full Media Record — 550+ Articles, 110 Books, 40 Years. *All created and supported by internet wizz, Nick Gill.

Shell’s “Successful Failure”: Still Failing, But With Even Bigger Bonuses

CEO Wael Sawan says his strategy is working — if you define ‘working’ as slashing renewables, kneeling to Wall Street, and praying the Trump administration sticks around.

Shell — the fossil-fueled titan that never met a barrel of oil it didn’t want to burn — has declared its latest strategy a “successful failure.” Which is corporate code for: We didn’t achieve what we said we would, but we did make rich people richer, so that counts, right?

Two years into CEO Wael Sawan’s so-called “10-quarter sprint” to remake Shell into a leaner, meaner profit machine, the results are in: read more

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Big Oil’s Supreme Court Tantrum: Shell & Friends Get Smacked Down

Well, well, well. It looks like Shell—along with its equally virtuous partners in climate destruction, Exxon, Chevron, BP, and ConocoPhillips—just took another legal hit. And not just any hit, but a nice, satisfying rejection from the U.S. Supreme Court. That’s right, the highest court in the land just told Big Oil’s fan club (otherwise known as 19 Republican attorneys general) to sit down and stop whining.

These oil-soaked litigators, led by Alabama’s Attorney General Steve Marshall, were trying to shut down climate lawsuits brought by California, Connecticut, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Rhode Island. These states, you see, dared to suggest that oil companies shouldn’t have lied to the public for decades about how burning fossil fuels would set the planet on fire. Telling the truth is still a radical concept in the fossil fuel world.

But let’s be clear: Shell and its industry pals are not about to take responsibility for anything. Because if they did, they might have to dip into the endless cash reserves that keep rolling in thanks to their top-tier enablers—like BlackRock and Vanguard. That’s right, these fine investment giants keep plowing money into Shell’s pockets, ensuring that the oil giant can continue its legacy of pollution, deception, and lobbying for regulatory loopholes. read more

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