Cronyism is partiality to long-standing friends, especially by appointing them to positions of authority, regardless of their qualifications. Posting on our Shell Blog by a regular contributor: Golden Triangle Watchman” Re the Motiva article, so true…..How prophetic that the picture of Voser and the senior execs are sitting there opening a valve at the ceremony…. [...]
30 October 2012 The case of Shell Petroleum Development Company in Ogoniland, Nigeria had been the most appalling experience and the most notable case of a company exploiting, billions of dollars in natural resources from a people and denying responsibility for turning the area into a waste land. Shell Petroleum started oil drilling in Ogoni [...]
October 30, 2012 Oil giant Shell was fined $80,000 on Monday for lapses in workplace safety that led to a 32-hour fire at the company’s Pulau Bukom oil refinery in September last year. Court papers stated that while draining a pipeline, its contractors had used a method that allowed flammable gases to accumulate in the [...]
29 October 2012 Leaks in oil pipes in Nigeria were allowed to flow for 10 weeks before Shell came to the site to stop them. © Amnesty International Audrey Gaughran, Director of Amnesty International’s Africa Programme For decades the oil industry in Nigeria’s Niger Delta has caused widespread pollution of land and water, damaging people’s [...]
The company had earlier pleaded guilty to failing to take reasonably practicable measures to ensure workers’ safety… AsiaOne: Monday, Oct 29, 2012 SINGAPORE – Shell was fined $80,000 for its role in a fire that broke out at its Pulau Bukom Refinery on Sep 28, 2011. The company had earlier pleaded guilty to failing to [...]
Lorne Stockman While Chevron’s Richmond refinery has been making the news lately with a very visible incident, our attention has been drawn to less noticed recent events in America’s biggest refining center on the Gulf Coast, where what was to become the country’s largest refinery also ran into a spot of trouble. You’d think that [...]
FROM OUR OCTOBER 2004 SHELL NEWS ARCHIVE Friday 29 October, 2004 – A DREADFUL DAY FOR SHAREHOLDERS IN SHELL TRANSPORT AND TRADING COMPANY PLC The Times (UK): The Hague for head office: “ALTHOUGH it maintains otherwise, Shell is effectively going Dutch…”: “From May, the big decisions will be taken by a new board in The [...]