"It is a way of taking on Goliath," John Donovan told The Investigator. "The Internet provides a low cost public platform for anyone to reach a global audience, giving ordinary individuals the opportunity to take on the powerful. Our David has already given Goliath -- with its 100,000 employees and business in 140 countries -- the PR equivalent of two black eyes."
February 8th, 2009:
Gripe sites are all the rage now
Continued Mr. Donovan: "Our anti-Shell Web site receives several million hits every month and has become an interactive hub of dissent attracting whistleblowers who, through our Web site, have leaked many Shell secrets to the news media, resulting in huge embarrassment to Shell senior management -- and also to the resignation of a Shell senior executive."
Governor Amaechi Lampoons Shell Over Community Projects
Rivers State governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has lampooned Shell Petroleum Development Company for exaggerating projects executed in some Rivers communities under the Global Memorandum of Understanding (GMOU) reached with host communities.
Shell Uganda caught with unmarked fuel
EXTRACTS: I dont know where you are getting your stories from but we have no problem as far as we are concerned, said Mr Ivan Kyayonka, Shells country director. Sources in the Energy ministry have told Sunday Monitor that Mr Kyayonka has previously been excited whenever UNBS penalised smaller dealers but now that he has been caught in the act, he is ridiculing the Standards agency.
Tar sands boom hits a sticky patch: Plunging oil prices spell disaster for energy bonanza that rivalled Saudi Arabia
...since oil prices began a downward tumble, energy companies including Shell, Syncrude and Petro-Canada have shelved more than US$90bn worth of oil sands investment.
Liam Fay: Why does no one dare say Coughlan is out of her depth?
Fisherman Pat ODonnell appears even more skilled at casting aspersions than casting nets. A strident opponent of Shells Corrib gas pipeline, he was inexplicably given space in The Irish Times last week to fling mud at volunteers with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) which recently accepted a 200,000 donation from Shell.