Jun 5th, 2015
by John Donovan.

Shell’s former chair calls fossil fuel divestment ‘rational’
By Steve Hargreaves: 4 June 2015
The former chairman of Royal Dutch Shell said selling oil stocks is a “rational” response to the failure of the oil industry to take meaningful action on climate change.
He is the latest to lend support to the growing campaign for investors to dump shares of fossil fuel companies.
“Divestment is a rational approach,” Mark Moody-Stuart was quoted by the Guardian as saying during a recent dinner in London. “If you think your money can be used somewhere else, you should switch it. Selective divestment or portfolio-switching is actually what investors should be doing.” read more
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May 17th, 2014
by John Donovan.
Extracts from a review by Danny Chivers of the recently published book by retired Royal Dutch Shell Group Chairman Sir Mark Moody-Stuart: “RESPONSIBLE LEADERSHIP: Lessons from the Front Line of Sustainability and Ethics”
Article originally published under the headline:
“If this is responsible leadership, then I’m an Ogoni”
Reading this book was a strange experience. It was like stepping into a parallel Universe where extractive industries bring overwhelming benefits to communities around the world, with the only negative consequences being caused by corrupt local governments. Again and again throughout the book, Moody-Stuart seems to wilfully ignore the unequal power relations between multinational corporations and the people in whose lands they operate. Perhaps the element of the book that made me angriest was Moody-Stuart’s insistence, in relation to Nigeria and elsewhere, that Shell “did not get involved in local politics”. This ignores the wealth of evidence showing collusion between the company and Nigeria’s military regime that led to a landmark payout of $15.5 million by Shell to the families of nine executed Nigerian activists. read more
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Mar 5th, 2014
by John Donovan.
Extracts from an article by Oliver Balch published on Wednesday 5 March 2014 by The Guardian
For Elizabeth II, it was 1992. For Juan Carlos I, 2007. In the case of Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, former chair of oil giant Shell, his annus horribilis came in 1995. Crisis number one arrived in the shape of Brent Spar, a decommissioned oil rig that Shell wanted to dump in the North Sea. Greenpeace thought it unwise; It took events in Nigeria – where Shell was (and still is) paying the government billions of pounds – to realise that a more pro-active position was needed. Nearly 20 years on, Moody-Stuart has taken to the page to describe the results of that “very bad year”. Moody-Stuart’s recipe for responsible business will satisfy some, but not all. When, and where, should a company draw the line? For him, it’s much preferable to “dine with the devil” than pull out of a country and lose influence. read more
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Feb 16th, 2014
by John Donovan.
It was 2am when a fireball pierced the inky night sky above a small community in the Niger delta. The explosion near Port Harcourt last June killed several people and released 6,000 barrels of crude oil. The cause: contractors hired by Royal Dutch Shell to stop pirates siphoning oil from a huge pipeline were themselves stealing fuel, and something went terribly wrong. The blast led to the shutdown… Shell, the largest foreign operator in the country, was responsible for more than 20,000 barrels of last year’s spills.
By John Donovan: Sunday 17 February 2014
The Sunday Times has today published an article by Danny Fortson under the headline: “Nigeria ravaged by $20bn oil robbery”
The article reveals information about a new website being launched next month by The National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency as a result of an initiative by a group of interested parties, including the Nigerian Government and local communities. The website will publish searchable details about every oil spill in Nigeria. It is expected to shame big oil. read more
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May 9th, 2012
by John Donovan.
FROM OUR ARCHIVES
By John Donovan
In May 2005, Royal Dutch Shell was in the middle of the maelstrom arising from the reserves scandal. Shell had defrauded many of its own shareholders as a result of filing false information with the US Securities & Exchange Commission. The Sunday Telegraph article printed below provides an insight into the subsequent legal “onslaught”.
After being approached by the U.S. lawyers, Bernstein Liebhard & Lifshitz, acting for the lead plaintiffs, I supplied Shell insider evidence and contact with Shell whistleblowers, including Dr John Huong, a Shell production geologist. read more
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Feb 26th, 2012
by John Donovan.

Malcolm Brinded
“I confirm that in my experience Shell UK operates oppressively against small business people. Its staff has acted unscrupulously and possibly illegally. The tactics of Shell UK management is completely opposite to the honesty and integrity promised by Shell in its code of ethics.”
By John Donovan
At the 1999 Shell AGM in London, Malcolm Brinded (above) rather surprisingly walked over and introduced himself to me. We had corresponded, but never met. At the time he had just taken over as Country Chairman of Shell UK.
I managed to corner him into setting up an informal meeting at the AGM between Shell executives, including Brinded and Group Chairman Mark Moody-Stuart, with a group of thoroughly disgruntled Shell UK service station retailers, to whom I had supplied shareholder passes to gain entry. read more
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Sep 13th, 2008
by John Donovan.
This is an updated version of the article. Additional information has come to light, including related correspondence with Shell Chairman Mark Moody-Stuart plus leaflets we distributed outside Shell HQ buildings in London, providing evidence the speculation was well founded.
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Jul 11th, 2008
by John Donovan.
The latest part of the claim has seen Donovan set up a website attacking Shell, he has also picketed the Shell Centre at Waterloo and disrupted the oil giant's 100th Anniversary AGM. The latest bizarre development in the case is an intervention in the form of a letter from the wife of Mark Moody-Stuart, the head of Shell International.
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Jun 26th, 2008
by John Donovan.
As the skyrocketing cost of energy continues to rapidly erode the standard of living of billions of workers around the globe, a handful of transnational oil companies are being given hundreds of billions of dollars in no-bid oil contracts in Iraq.
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Jun 5th, 2008
by John Donovan.
In view of the overnight news from Nigeria it seems an appropriate time to publish for the first time on the Internet the most dramatic masterpiece about Shell and its atrocious track record, especially in Nigeria, that we have ever seen. Authored by Andrew Rowell, it was published by The Guardian over 10 years ago on 15 November 1997 under the title: Unloveable Shell, the Goddess of Oil.
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"the Statement provides, for our employees to follow and for the outside world to judge us by, an ethical framework which is mandatory, not optional: just having those principles is not enough. In the past: an oil company could say "trust me" and expect that to be enough. Today, people say, "tell me" "listen to me" "show me". Trust has to be earned by transparency. That's one of the most important lessons we've learned in Shell".
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