Shell admits Nigeria liability

BBC News, August 12, 2011

Oil giant Shell has accepted responsibility for two devastating oil spills in Nigeria's Ogoniland region.

The Bodo fishing community sued Shell in the UK, alleging that spills in 2008 and 2009 had destroyed the environment and ruined their livelihoods. Their lawyer said they would seek hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation for one of the world's "most devastating oil spills". Read more...

BP and Shell face new shareholder revolt over tar sands

ENN, February 28, 2010

Investors want oil giants to answer questions on their involvement in the environmentally damaging extraction of oil from tar sands
Shareholders at BP and Shell will get the chance to vote at upcoming AGMs on whether to force oil giants to come clean on their Canadian tar sands involvement. Read more...

And this is how Shell cleared the Athens' smog

Η Shell, σε διαφημιστικό της βίντεοκλιπ που προβάλλεται σε πολλές χώρες της υφηλίου αλλά όχι στην Ελλάδα, διαφημίζει ότι καθάρισε τον αττικό ουρανό από το νέφος. Ο πολυεθνικός ενεργειακός κολοσσός ισχυρίζεται το συνθετικό καύσιμο GTL, που παράγει από την υγροποίηση φυσικού αερίου, χρησιμοποιήθηκε σε χιλιάδες ταξί της Αθήνας στην ολυμπιακή χρονιά 2004. Το βίντεο τελειώνει με πλάνο της Ακρόπολης κάτω από τον καθαρό ουρανό Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

Shell will not pay for emissions permits, freeze investments in Europe.

Planet 2025, April 14, 2008

Royal Dutch Shell Plc. may stop investing in Europe if it has to pay for emissions permits. That’s what Shell France director Christian Balme told. He said that if emission quotas are auctioned, the high costs will stop investments by Shell in Europe. Read more...

Sierra Club Sues Shell

Emagazine.com, January 14, 2007

The Sierra Club, the nation’s largest and oldest environmental group, filed suit in federal court last week against Shell Oil over ongoing pollution at a refining and chemical plant complex along the Houston Ship Channel in Texas. According to the lawsuit, Shell should be held financially accountable—in the amount of $32 million each—for an estimated 1,000 incidents between 2003 and 2007 when its Deer Park, Texas facility exceeded maximum allowable levels of pollution. [..]

“Shell is paying to pollute,” says Joshua Kratka of the National Environmental Law Center, which represents the Sierra Club (and the nonprofit Environment Texas) in the lawsuit. He told reporters, “Shell is factoring these fines into its costs of operating these facilities.” Read more...