Shell is sustaining fresh reputational damage over its role in oil spills in the Niger Delta,ahead of its annual meeting tomorrow.
By Rob Davies
PUBLISHED: 22:22, 20 May 2012 | UPDATED: 22:22, 20 May 2
Shell is sustaining fresh reputational damage over its role in oil spills in the Niger Delta,ahead of its annual meeting tomorrow.
Campaign group Amnesty International has enlisted actor Hakeem Kae-Kazim,star of TV series 24 and the film Hotel Rwanda, to publicise the issue.
Kae-Kazim, who is due to star in a film about the Niger Delta called Black November, said:‘Shell cannot keep ducking the issue.
‘They have a direct responsibility to clean up the mess of the Niger Delta and the net is closing on them.’
He said Shell should ‘properly compensate the thousands of people who have seen their livelihoods destroyed and their health ruined by the numerous oil spills in the Niger Delta.
The Anglo-Dutch supermajor says that it is responsible for 30 per cent of spills in the region,with the remainder caused by oil theft, known as ‘bunkering’.
The company does not provide compensation for communities affected by spills for which it does not admit culpability.
The waterways of the Delta are blighted by oil slicks that kill off fish stocks and cause pollution that devastates struggling communities in the region.
Shell boss Peter Voser is expected to face questions from the floor about its environmental performance at Tuesday’s annual meeting in The Hague.
A delegation of North American indigenous people is expected to attend to protest against Shell’s involvement in the controversial ‘tar sands’ method of oil extraction.
And environmental groups including Greenpeace will criticise Shell for its eagerness to join in exploration in the delicate ecosystem of the Arctic.
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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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