Is Shell really locked in talks? I doubt it. Remember that they walked away from involvement in oil product distribution years ago when they sacked their drivers and contracted out.
June 12th, 2008:
Comment by former Shell exec Paddy Briggs on UK tanker driver pending strike: Is Shell really locked in talks? I doubt it.
$4 Gasbags
Anyone wondering why U.S. energy policy is so dysfunctional need only review Congress's recent antics. Members have debated ideas ranging from suing OPEC to the Senate's carbon tax-and-regulation monstrosity, to a windfall profits tax on oil companies, to new punishments for "price gouging" everything except expanding domestic energy supplies.
Boardroom Brawl Roils BP’s Russia Venture
In 2006, environmental regulators threatened to shut down a vast oil and gas project off the Far East island of Sakhalin operated by Royal Dutch Shell PLC. Shell was forced to sell half its stake to state-owned Gazprom.
Email from John Donovan to The One World Trust: RE ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC
As you will see, the claim of openness is totally at variance with the tactics actually used by one of the most senior lawyers at Shell with the knowledge of the Company Chairman, Mr Jorma Ollila. The evasive tactics were used on a very important subject.
PM’s plea on panic buying designed as ploy
The drivers involved in the dispute, employed by the haulage companies Hoyer UK and Suckling Transport, are the sole suppliers to almost 1,000 Shell forecourts.
Petrol queues as tanker strike talks continue
Unite repeated its call for Shell to get involved in the dispute. "It is no use Shell bosses, who have themselves enjoyed 15%-plus pay increases in the last year, sitting on their hands," said Unite's assistant general secretary, Len McCluskey.
Shell locked in talks to avert tanker drivers walking out
With the rest of Europe facing widespread disruption from protesting hauliers, and with simmering discontent among British motorists at rising prices, negotiators were locked in an attempt to settle the dispute between 641 drivers and two sub-contactors for the oil firm Shell ahead of a planned four-day walkout, due to begin at 6am tomorrow.
SHELL OIL’S EXIT FROM OGONILAND & CALL FOR NEW OIL FIRM?
We demand of Shell Oil to begin cleaning the Ogoni environment of the pollution it created during its four decades of oil exploration in Ogoni.