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The Donovan–Shell Feud: A Conflict That Refuses to End: 17 Feb 2026

Feb 17th, 2026

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Bing response on 17 February 2026 to the prompt: John Donovan Shell feud

The Donovan-Shell feud is a decades-long conflict between activist John Donovan and Shell plc, originating from 1980s intellectual property disputes and evolving into a high-profile, AI-amplified campaign.

Origins of the Feud

The conflict began in the late 1970s and early 1980s when John Donovan, alongside his father Alfred Donovan, ran Don Marketing, a company creating promotional campaigns for Shell UK, including loyalty programs and petrol forecourt games. Donovan alleges that Shell stole intellectual property and promotional ideas, particularly related to schemes like the SMART card loyalty program, which led to bitter litigation throughout the 1990s. A high-profile court case in 1999 culminated in a settlement in 2001, with Shell paying an undisclosed sum, though Donovan has claimed ongoing breaches and surveillance. read more

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A Troubling Cross-Era Review Shell Cannot Ignore

Jan 19th, 2026

by John Donovan.

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Introduction: A Troubling Cross-Era Review Shell Cannot Ignore

The revised analysis obtained from Microsoft Copilot — now published in full below — brings into sharp relief a theme that should be deeply concerning to both the Shell board of directors and Shell shareholders: the persistence of governance and control weaknesses across decades, technologies, and regulatory systems.

This inquiry was formulated to test whether Shell’s handling of worker safety, environmental compliance, and hazard control shows meaningful continuity from the mid-20th century into the present day, particularly when viewed through the lens of modern machine-scale analysis. The response incorporates: read more

Is There a Long-Term Pattern in Shell’s Risk Management Failures?

Jan 17th, 2026

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Is There a Long-Term Pattern in Shell’s Risk Management Failures?

UPDATED 18 JAN 2026 WITH ILLUMINATING REPLIES FROM A NUMBER OF AI PLATFORMS

This article presents a structured question put to ChatGPT and the platform’s full response, published to enable comparison with other AI systems and to illustrate how AI re-processes corporate history in the modern information environment.

Question put to ChatGPT:

The Past, the Archive, and the Algorithm: Is There a Persistent Pattern in Shell’s Worker-Safety and Public-Health Risk Management in the Age of AI?

I am seeking a research-based analysis (not speculation) of whether there is any meaningful continuity or correlation between several historically separated episodes that are alleged to reflect a similar organisational posture toward health, safety, and human lives—taking into account that large language models can now ingest, cross-reference, and recontextualise entire multi-volume corporate histories alongside modern regulatory and safety records. read more

Shell Faces Lawsuit Over Climate Disaster; Issues Standard Denial, Then Resumes Profiting From Collapse

Dec 11th, 2025

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By Shell News Article Generator | December 11, 2025

“It’s not our typhoon. We just warmed the planet it formed on.”

Shell’s Christmas Gift to the Philippines: Typhoon, Then a Shrug

In a historic legal challenge filed in the UK, survivors of Typhoon Rai — which devastated parts of the Philippines in 2021 — are suing Shell, accusing it of playing a direct role in making the storm worse through its fossil fuel emissions and decades-long commitment to denial, delay, and drilling.

Shell’s response? A firm, well-lubricated “Not it!”

“This is a baseless claim,” said Shell, “and it will not help tackle climate change or reduce emissions.” read more

Shell’s Plastic Palace: Beaver County Gets the Smog, Investors Get the Bill

Oct 2nd, 2025

by John Donovan.

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Shell once promised its $14 billion petrochemical plant in Monaca, Pennsylvania would transform Beaver County into a growth engine. The reality? An economic lemon wrapped in a PR puff piece.

The Hype Machine

In local press, Shell amplified claims that Beaver County’s population was rebounding thanks to its shiny new “cracker” plant. Trouble is, those claims came from cherry-picked data with “no statistical reliability”, according to Times Online.

The truth: Beaver County has lost 9% of its residents since 1980. Shell’s arrival hasn’t changed the trend. What has grown? Plastic pellets, truck traffic, and community scepticism.

The Financial Meltdown

The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) lays it bare: read more

Benzene & Bungling: Shell’s Toxic Exposure Scandal in Trinidad

Oct 2nd, 2025

by John Donovan.

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“If I had been up there a few minutes more, I would have been taken off in a body bag.”

Shell’s “zero harm” mantra has once again been vaporised—literally. This time it’s benzene gas on the Dolphin natural gas platform in Trinidad, where a former quality assurance inspector was allegedly exposed without proper protective gear. Shell, true to form, didn’t even bother reporting it to the Occupational Safety and Health Authority (OSHA) or the Ministry of Energy, as required. WTF Shell?

The Incident They Didn’t Want Reported

The inspector says he was sent to check pipes and flanges in May 2021 by contractor Massy Wood Group. Nobody told him he needed a respirator. Within minutes, he was dizzy, gasping, and suffering chest pains. read more

Shell’s Plastic-Fueled Pollution Parade: Toxic Air, Missing Fines, and Deafening Silence

Aug 6th, 2025

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Six fresh Clean Air Act violations and nearly 50 since 2022, but hey—no worries! Shell’s just too busy torching plastic profits and ignoring your lungs.

Oh look—Shell’s back at it again. This time, not with an oil spill, a reserve scandal, or yet another shareholder payday funded by planetary collapse. No, this time the royal court jester of fossil capitalism is serving up a toxic buffet of formaldehyde, benzene, nitrogen oxides, toluene, and everyone’s favourite: fine particulate matter. All courtesy of its shiny new ethane cracker plant in Beaver County, Pennsylvania.

Yes, Shell Polymers Monaca—built to turn fracked gas from the Marcellus Shale into billions of plastic pellets that the ocean will never digest—is exceeding Clean Air Act limits like it’s a competitive sport. Six high-priority violations already this year. That’s right—high-priority, according to the actual U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, meaning Shell’s antics are so egregious they warrant special scrutiny. But you wouldn’t know it if you lived nearby. read more

Shell & BP: The Sin Stocks That Even SPECTRE Would Blush At

Jul 22nd, 2025

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By Editorial Team | Generated with AI assistance and reviewed by an editor: 22 JULY 2025

Move over Blofeld, step aside SMERSH – the real villains of our age wear corporate logos, not eye patches.

Shell and BP, those beloved darlings of Wall Street and favourite investments of titans like BlackRock and Vanguard, have once again proven that when it comes to greed, ruthlessness, and planetary destruction, fiction can’t compete with reality.

Let’s start with Shell – the oil behemoth that markets itself as a climate-conscious “energy transition leader” while simultaneously stomping on anything resembling ethics or sustainability. These paragons of corporate virtue just pulled out of a six-year attempt to define a net-zero emissions standard, according to the Financial Times (22 July, Reuters). Why? Because the draft standard dared suggest companies should stop developing new oil and gas fields. The horror! read more

How Shell Showed Contempt for the Planet – and Got Tax Breaks for It

Jun 11th, 2025

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Behold the Shell Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex: a billion-dollar plastic-spewing behemoth where climate pledges come to die, and carcinogens go to party. Nestled in the rolling green of Potter Township, this petrochemical monster—cheerily dubbed “Shell Polymers Monaca”—is Shell’s love letter to deregulation, tax holidays, and fossil-fueled hypocrisy.

Built with the subtlety of a Bond villain lair and $1.65 billion in public subsidies (yes, you read that right), the plant turns fracked gas from the Marcellus Shale into over a million tons of plastic pellets per year. Because when Shell talks about “the energy transition,” what they really mean is transitioning the planet into a floating garbage patch. read more

HELLFIRE MERGER: When Shell Meets BP, the Planet Burns

May 28th, 2025

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By John Donovan: royaldutchshellplc.com

Is it a match made in heaven or a merger forged in the flaming pits of fossil-fuel hell?

Shell and BP—Britain’s beloved petro-behemoths—are flirting with a union so unholy it could make even Beelzebub blink. Bloomberg’s whispers and spreadsheets are in overdrive, but let’s cut the polite analyst drivel: this isn’t about synergy—it’s about greed, greenwashing, and grabbing the last oily dollars before the planet croaks.

“Greenwashing Since 1907,” reads the headline in our accompanying cartoon (see above), and we mean it. Shell and BP have been gaslighting the public longer than most countries have had electricity. And now, they’re pondering a mega-merger that could hand them even more power to pollute, profiteer, and pretend they’re helping the planet. read more

Shell Eyes BP Takeover While Drenched in Gas, Cash, and Climate Denial

May 21st, 2025

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There are corporate villains, and then there’s Shell—the Bond villain of Big Oil, now openly toying with the idea of swallowing BP whole like a boa constrictor eyeing a stunned rat. With BP’s renewable daydreams in flames and its share price gasping for relevance, Shell’s chief executive Wael Sawan has stepped forward as the calm, calculating undertaker, declaring at the AGM that “the bar for mergers and acquisitions is very high”—which in Shell-speak translates to: “We’ll wait until they’re cheap enough to loot.” read more

Shell to Ditch Chemicals, Polish Profits — Because Who Needs Plastics When You Can Just Sell Pollution Directly?

Mar 25th, 2025

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As Exxon and Chevron cash in, Shell flails, flips assets, and prays Wall Street will finally love it.

In its never-ending quest to appear as valuable as ExxonMobil and Chevron — two American oil giants who at least own their villainy — Shell has announced that it might sell off the most awkward, least profitable bits of its chemicals business. What better way to prove you’re serious about climate not change than unloading your plastics division to fund more oil and gas?

On Tuesday, Shell confirmed it’s “exploring strategic and partnership opportunities” for parts of its chemicals operations in the U.S., including the much-hyped Pennsylvania ethylene cracker plant — a monument to fossil-fueled manufacturing so planet-wrecking it makes a coal mine look like a herb garden. read more

WTF is Shell Up to Now? A “Safety Drill” at the Monaca Cracker Plant?

Mar 19th, 2025

by John Donovan.

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Wed, 19 March 2025

Ah, Shell—the benevolent, community-loving, totally-not-environmentally-disastrous oil behemoth—wants you to know they care. So much so that their Monaca, PA Cracker Plant, the one that belches out plastic pellets and pollutants like a chain-smoker at an open-bar wedding, is holding an “emergency response drill” today at noon.

What’s the emergency? That’s a great question! Maybe it’s the toxic emissions, maybe it’s the air pollution that’s been raising alarm bells, or maybe it’s just another PR stunt to make it seem like they’re doing something other than poisoning the planet while raking in obscene profits. Because let’s not forget, this plant is part of Shell’s grand plan to flood the world with even more plastic—just what the planet desperately doesn’t need.

And hey, if you have any questions about their noble efforts, feel free to dial 844-776-5581. Maybe ask them about the air quality in the area, or how much of that lovely ethane cracker pollution is ending up in the Ohio River. Or better yet, inquire about how this multi-billion-dollar facility is doing its part to accelerate climate change while pretending to be a “good neighbour.” read more

Shell + BP: The Toxic Love Story

Mar 2nd, 2025

by John Donovan.

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Wall Street’s Favorite Polluters Get Cozy, Because Who Needs a Planet Anyway?

BP, ever the corporate chameleon, has decided that even pretending to care about the environment is too much effort. After a brief and laughable flirtation with “green energy,” the oil giant is doing what it does best—doubling down on fossil fuels. And guess who’s cheering them on? None other than Wall Street’s financial overlord, Elliott Management. Because when your primary investors are the same hedge fund sharks who see ethics as an optional extra, saving the planet seems downright unprofitable. read more

Shell’s Latest Courtroom Shenanigans: Because Who Needs Laws When You Have Billions?

Jan 30th, 2025

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Posted by John Donovan: 30 Jan 2025

In yet another shocking display of corporate audacity, Shell—the world’s favorite environmental supervillain—just had its UK North Sea drilling permits for the Rosebank and Jackdaw fields ruled unlawful by the Scottish courts. But don’t pop the champagne just yet! Thanks to some legal gymnastics, Shell and its Norwegian sidekick, Equinor, can keep plowing ahead with their climate-wrecking projects while they “reapply” for permission. Because, obviously, rules don’t apply when you have BlackRock and Vanguard pouring billions into your destruction fund. read more

Shell and Its Sinister Backpedal on Renewables

Dec 27th, 2024

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Posted by John Donovan: 27 Dec 2024

In the grand theater of “profit before planet,” Shell—the poster child for greed, pollution, and shameless hypocrisy—has outdone itself. Once strutting around with lofty promises of becoming a world leader in clean energy, Shell has now quietly tossed its renewable ambitions into the trash can, along with any pretense of caring about the climate crisis. Instead, it’s all about fattening profits with oil and gas, the dirtiest of dirty fuels.

“Net Zero by 2050”: The Joke That Writes Itself read more

30 November 2023: Posted by John Donovan

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Bing response on 17 February 2026 to the prompt: John Donovan Shell feud

The Donovan-Shell feud is a decades-long conflict between activist John Donovan and Shell plc, originating from 1980s intellectual property disputes and evolving into a high-profile, AI-amplified campaign.

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Is There a Long-Term Pattern in Shell’s Risk Management Failures?

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Shell’s Christmas Gift to the Philippines: Typhoon, Then a Shrug

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