By John Donovan
A guest on our Live Chat facility posted comments today painting a one sided picture of a benevolent Shell which bears no responsibility for the corruption in Nigeria.
It is therefore timely to remind readers about matters of which Guest 3487 was either ignorant, or conveniently neglected to mention.
ON-GOING OGONI U.S. CLASS ACTION AGAINST SHELL
There is on-going litigation in the U.S.A. involving extremely serious allegations against Shell.
The following are extracts from an article in the Daily Mail.
The lawsuit claims that Shell ‘engaged in militarised commerce in a conspiracy with the former military government of Nigeria.’ Watts ran the oil giant’s Nigerian SDPC subsidiary between 1991 and 1994.
The action alleges that the Ogonis suffered human rights abuses at the hands of the Nigerian government. Hundreds of people died and thousands more were evicted from their homes in a bloody campaign.
Letters bearing Watts’ signature have him ordering what are called ‘spy police,’ some to be equipped with semi-automatic weapons and wearing Shell insignia on their uniforms to identify them as ‘supernumaries’ under the oil company’s banner.
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=321358&in_page_id=2
Shell’s sleazy commercial relationship with militants
Shell management in Nigeria is up to its neck in a commercial relationship with the militants attacking Shell infrastructure. We were tipped off by a Shell insider about what is going on. Our research revealed the following FT articles which confirm the basic allegations.
http://royaldutchshellgroup.com/2007/07/12/ft-report-nigeria-a-critical-role-in-world-energy/
Shell has fuelled conflict, poverty and corruption in Nigeria
The following articles all published on 11 June 2004, reported on a confidential leaked Shell internal report (leaked to us) containing findings that Shell has “inadvertently” fed conflict, poverty and corruption through its oil activities in Nigeria.
BBC News: Shell admits fuelling corruption
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3796375.stm
CNN News: Shell admits blame in Nigeria:
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/06/11/nigeria.shell/
The Times: Shell ‘may have to abandon Nigeria’:
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/article444008.ece
Daily Telegraph: Shell advised to retreat from Nigeria:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2004/06/11/cnshell11.xml
Shell ‘may have to leave Nigeria’:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2004/jun/11/oilandpetrol.money
Financial Times: Violence ‘may force Shell to quit Nigeria’:
THE LEAKED SHELL CONFIDENTIAL INTERNAL REPORT ON SHELL’S ACTIVITIES IN NIGERIA BY WAC Global Services Dec 03: “PEACE AND SECURITY IN THE NIGER DELTA”.
http://www.shellnews.net/2007/shell_wac_report_2004.pdf
GAS FLARING
The following are links to articles about Shell gas flaring in Nigeria…
Nigeria: Hofmeister – Shell Committed to Ending Gas Flaring
http://allafrica.com/stories/200802181098.html
Nigerian Court Gives Shell One Year to Stop Gas Flaring
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/apr2006/2006-04-11-01.asp
Communities Sue Shell to Stop Nigerian Gas Flaring
http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/communities_sue_shell_to_s_20062005.html
Shell’s track record in Nigeria is atrocious.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
