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Shell fined record sum for fire safety breaches

LONDON FIRE BRIGADE

02 June 2009

Shell International Ltd. was fined £300,000 and ordered to pay £45,000 in costs after pleading guilty to serious breaches of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (the “RRO”).  This fine is the largest imposed under the RRO.

The London Fire Brigade prosecuted Shell following two small fires in the space of three weeks at the Shell Centre on York Road, SE1 7NA. These fires resulted in an inspection being carried out on 12 January 2007. The Inspecting Officers found extensive breaches including blocked escape routes and fire exits, defective fire doors and excessive fire loading. The fire loading in the Shell Tower had been dramatically increased because of refurbishments taking place in the upper floors. read more

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Corporate Reputation: Royal Dutch Shell Plc

BOOK TITLE: CORPORATE REPUTATION (12 Steps to Safeguarding and Recovering Reputation) 

AUTHOR: DR LESLIE GAINES-ROSS (Chief Reputation Strategist, Weber Shandwick)

Chapter: REPUTATION LOSS

EXTRACTS FROM Pages 19 & 20

Although not all deserve labels such as reputation bandits and Robin Hoods, these groups all have the potential to undermine reputations and plant doubt in customers’ and other audiences’ minds as to a company’s integrity, purpose and practices, and quality of products and services. read more

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Shell Oil, railroads win U.S. ruling on cleanup costs

Voting 8-1, the justices overturned a ruling by a U.S. appeals court that Shell and the railroads could be held liable for almost the full cost of the cleanup even though their roles in the soil and groundwater contamination had been relatively minor.

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royaldutchshellplc.com Wikipedia article April 2009 version

On 25 January 2008, Carl Mortished, World Business Editor of The Times newspaper wrote an article headlined: “Shell chief fears oil shortage in seven years” in which he described the site as “an independent website that monitors the company.”

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Snapshot of Wikipedia Article Royaldutchshellplc.com 30 April 2009

Snapshot of Wikipedia Article Royaldutchshellplc.com taken on 30 April 2009

royaldutchshellplc.com is a gripe site operated by 92 year old Alfred Donovan and his 62 year old son John Donovan, which is critical of Royal Dutch Shell. On 11 June 2007, Ed Crooks of the Financial Times described it as “an anti-Shell website run by a father and son partnership that has been a long-running thorn in the company’s side.” On 25 January 2008, Carl Mortished, World Business Editor of The Times newspaper wrote an article headlined: “Shell chief fears oil shortage in seven years” in which he described the site as “an independent website that monitors the company.” During the course of a long feud between the Donovan’s and Shell, oil industry observers have speculated that the Donovan’s thwarted a Shell Texacomerger and cost Shell billions of pounds sterling in respect of its Sakhalin-2 project in Russia. read more

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Deleted Wikipedia article: Royal Dutch Shell initiatives

Royal Dutch Shell is responsible for many important initiatives in relationship to the environment, encouraging business start-ups, supporting charitable causes and other good works.

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Toxic ethical ranking of Royal Dutch Shell

Out of 541 multinationals surveyed, Royal Dutch Shell has an overall ranking of 510, alongside the likes of the tobacco companies and Halliburton.

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COLD WIND RULES BLOW AT SHELL

LEAKED SHELL MANAGEMENT EMAIL: The chilling content will be of interest to Shell employees and in particular to contractors and suppliers, bearing in mind the vow to “ruthlessly review 3rd parties costs”. Shell has had the opportunity to deny the authenticity of the email or obtain an injunction to prevent publication. The email is authentic.

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Shell owes gov’t P21B in back taxes says Bureau of Customs

MANILA, Philippines – A giant oil firm has been defrauding the government of some P21 billion in taxes and penalties involving the importation of a component of unleaded gasoline since 2006, the Bureau of Customs has claimed.

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Alarm over hundreds of offshore incidents

Shell – investigated by the HSE 207 times in the past three years – insisted that safety remains “paramount”. A spokesman said: “Our reliability trends, hydrocarbon release trends and spill trends have improved year-on-year since 2004, reflecting the increased levels of investment and operational scrutiny.”

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A Gamble in Qatar: Royal Dutch Shell is making a huge — and risky — bet on technology that transforms natural gas to diesel fuel

Shell started experimenting with GTL technology during the energy crisis of the 1970s, when it began to search for an alternative to gasoline. In 1993, Shell opened its first GTL demonstration plant in Bintulu, Malaysia. The project was derailed in 1997 by a massive explosion caused by a profusion of carbon molecules in the air as a result of extensive forest fires in Indonesia. It took three years to repair the damage.

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Santa Barbara News-Press: Gripe sites are all the rage

"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."

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Shell Uganda caught with ‘unmarked’ fuel

EXTRACTS: “I don’t know where you are getting your stories from but we have no problem as far as we are concerned,” said Mr Ivan Kyayonka, Shell’s 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.

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Shell Sued Over Texas Refinery Emissions

Environmental activists filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of citizens against Shell,reports the Houston Chronicle. Environment Texas Citizen Lobby and the Sierra Club claim Shell and many of its subsidiaries have released millions of pounds of excess toxic air pollutants along the Houston Ship Channel over the past five years

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Shell Criticized for Manipulating Environmental Audit Report

Dozens of e-mails secured through the Freedom of Information Act show how Shell officials in London attempted to downplay and edit environmental criticism of the $22 billion Sakhalin II energy scheme.

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Shell Accused of Greenwashing, Again

Last August, Shell was reprimanded by UK’s Advertising Standards Authority for violating advertising rules when it claimed that the two oil projects in Canada and the U.S. involved sustainable forms of energy. That wasn’t the first time Shell faced criticism over its “green” advertising.

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Green Shell Ads Stress Innovations to Increase Oil Supply

 

 

 

 

February 4, 2009

LONDON — In a new ad campaign, Royal Dutch Shell is stressing technology and innovation as potential weapons to fight global warming. The ads spotlight Shell’s efforts to squeeze out “difficult” oil trapped in sand and rock, and in the deepest seas. They also note Shell is trying to capture carbon-dioxide, a gas that causes global warming, and store it safely underground.

In contrast to an earlier campaign, only one ad in the new effort features alternative energy as a potential solution. read more

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RNLI denies Shell donation will compromise service

THE ROYAL National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) has said that its rescue service would “never be compromised” by any donation to a fundraising appeal. The RNLI was responding to concerns expressed by a Mayo fisherman this week over the organisation’s decision to accept a €200,000 donation from Shell EP Ireland, developers of the Corrib gas project.

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Shell’s Green Ads Take New Tack

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

LONDON — Royal Dutch Shell, censured twice by Britain’s ad police for exaggerating its commitment to green issues, is hoping to avoid controversy in its latest ad campaign. It isn’t clear if it has succeeded.

The Anglo-Dutch oil giant drew fire from activist groups like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth for past attempts to extol its environmental responsibility. It tended to boast of its investments in alternative energy with ads that spoke of the “power to create a cleaner, safer world.” read more

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Royal Dutch Shell Plc Tax Dodgers: Offshore – and out of reach to the Revenue

This means that, legally speaking, Shell is now simultaneously a British public company, tax-resident in Amsterdam, whose brands are Swiss.

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Advertising regulators get tough over “greenwash”: many businesses are forgetting one not-very-small point: the claims need to be true

Complaints were upheld either entirely or in part by the watchdog include one about an advertisement by Shell in which the oil company claimed that its waste carbon dioxide was used to grow flowers. The ASA said that the advertisement implied that Shell used all its waste carbon dioxide to grow flowers, when it was shown that only 0.325 per cent of its emissions were used in this way.

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Shell Temporarily Grounds Sikorskys Amid Probe After Helicopter Crash

In an unusual move prompted by concerns about the safety of a widely used model of Sikorsky helicopter, Royal Dutch Shell PLC's U.S. unit has temporarily grounded a fleet of the choppers, and instead is relying on boats to take most workers to and from oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Shell employee safety: Shell EP Boss Malcolm Brinded says Shell has had a “dreadful start” to 2009

International Herald Tribune

Shell gets tough on costs as oil prices bite

 Tom Bergin

Royal Dutch Shell has intensified its cost-cutting efforts in response to the collapse in oil prices and also plans to step up efforts to improve what it said was a “mixed” safety record.

Shell’s head of Exploration and Production Malcolm Brinded told employees in an email seen by Reuters that staff had to make “tough choices.”

“We simply need much higher sustainable savings this year and I ask for real actions from all of you …. Shed contractor staff, challenge requirements, eliminate consultancy work, reduce travel massively, cut overheads everywhere,” he said. read more

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Shell gets tough on costs as oil prices bite

Reuters UK

Fri Jan 30, 2009 7:36pm GMT

By Tom Bergin

LONDON (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) has intensified its cost-cutting efforts in response to the collapse in oil prices and also plans to step up efforts to improve what it said was a “mixed” safety record.

Shell’s head of Exploration and Production Malcolm Brinded told employees in an email seen by Reuters that staff had to make “tough choices.”

“We simply need much higher sustainable savings this year and I ask for real actions from all of you …. Shed contractor staff, challenge requirements, eliminate consultancy work, reduce travel massively, cut overheads everywhere,” he said. read more

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Shell says pension funds underfunded by $12 bln

LONDON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L) said its various pension funds around the world were underfunded by $11.83 billion after market turbulence hit asset values.

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Former oil executive pleads guilty in fraud scheme

A former oil executive accused of diverting more than $1 million from a Shell Deepwater Development contract for his personal use has pleaded guilty to income tax evasion and mail fraud.

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Californian exclusive: State investigating Shell over refinery trouble

The state Attorney General’s antitrust unit is investigating whether Shell Oil Co. is “illegally refusing to sell crude oil ... or shutting off pipeline access” to Big West refinery on Rosedale Highway. The inquiry was confirmed in a letter dated Friday from Chief Deputy Attorney General James M. Humes to Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., who earlier this month forwarded to the office allegations that Shell was “deliberately manipulating the supply (of oil) in order to force the refinery to shut down.”

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Florida’s troubled state pension fund dumped $1 billion “prohibited” stocks, including Royal Dutch Shell

A law passed by the legislature in 2007 (Protecting Florida's Investment Act, PFIA) required the state pension fund to sell off any assets in companies that do business with countries on the US list of state sponsors of terrorism - principally Iran and Sudan. So far the state pension fund has sold more than $1.15 billion in probited companies. Among the divestments were several major oil and gas companies, including Brazil's Petrobras ($206 million), Total of France ($214 million) and Royal Dutch Shell ($215 million).

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Shell in U.S. Gov. Sex, Drugs and Corruption Scandal

In the hard commercial world, Shell is, as always, prepared to do whatever it takes to meet its objectives, whether in the USA (bribery and corruption), Nigeria (fuelling corruption and violence, with no end to the gas flaring), the North Sea (production and profit before offshore worker lives) or in Russia (bribery and corruption on the Sakhalin-2 project).

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Ethanol Lawsuit Proceeds against Oil Companies

The defendants include Chevron, Exxon, BP, Shell Oil, ConocoPhillips and Tower Energy Corp., a California-based independent petroleum wholesaler, the report stated.

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Shell Buys 10% Of Arrow’s Singapore Unit For US$66M

MELBOURNE (Dow Jones)--Arrow Energy Ltd. (AOE.AU) said Wednesday that Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA) had bought a 10% stake in its Singapore unit, Arrow International Pte., for US$66 million as part of a previously announced deal.

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ConocoPhillips Plans $34 Billion in Charges

EXTRACTS FROM WALL STREET JOURNAL ARTICLE: In a sign that global economic woes are hobbling even the once-mighty oil industry, ConocoPhillips on Friday said it would slash its capital budget and lay off 4% of its work force, or about 1,350 workers. The company also will take several one-time charges, totaling $34 billion, against fourth-quarter earnings. The move raises questions about whether other global energy producers, such as Chevron and Royal Dutch Shell PLC, might take similar steps in coming weeks.

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500 holiday workers from Shell Oil and Motiva Enterprises active in Houston Food Bank Project

Among them are about 150 volunteers from Hope Worldwide, an international humanitarian organization, and 500 holiday workers from Shell Oil Co. and its Motiva Enterprises subsidiary who will sort and pack groceries at Houston Food Bank, tutor a children’s literacy program and plant dozens of trees.

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Shell to Pay $1 Million for Water Pollution in Puerto Rico

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, January 15, 2009 (ENS) - For discharging pollutants into a creek that flows to the Caribbean Sea, a Shell petrochemical company in Puerto Rico has agreed to pay a $1,025,000 penalty and spend at least $273,800 enhancing its pollution controls and monitoring to remedy the Clean Water Act violations.

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Shell fined $1 million for alleged PR pollution

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is fining a Shell facility in Puerto Rico more than $1 million for allegedly contaminating surrounding waters.

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Shell to Pay $1 Million Penalty for Clean Water Act Violations in Puerto Rico

“This agreement marks a solution to a longstanding series of serious violations,” said EPA Regional Administrator Alan J. Steinberg. “Not only is Shell paying for these violations with its checkbook, it is taking steps to avoid future problems.”

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Not even a good old-fashioned sex scandal could get our outrage going again

Not even a good old-fashioned sex scandal could get our outrage going again. Indeed, a juicy one erupted last year in the Interior Department, where the inspector general found that officials “had used cocaine and marijuana, and had sexual relationships with oil and gas company representatives.” Two officials tasked with marketing oil on behalf of American taxpayers got so blotto at a daytime golf event sponsored by Shell that they became too incapacitated to drive and had to be put up by the oil company.

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Shell has had more trouble curbing fatalities than many of its competitors

The Financial Times reported last month that Royal Dutch Shell had the highest mortality rate of any large western oil company, with two employees and 28 contractors dying in the line of duty in 2007.

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The National Theatre should clean up its act and ditch Shell

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Chris WilkinsonPosted by Chris Wilkinson: Thursday 8 January 2009 11.27 GMT

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Fuel pumps at a Shell petrol station near Liverpool   

Fuel pumps at a Shell petrol station. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

Last Sunday, as I entered the National Theatre to catch the final performance of Oedipus, a flyer was shoved into my hand. Usually these leaflets are simply plugging a show. Not this one. It was from an organisation called Rising Tide, protesting against the production’s sponsorship by Shell. Using the slogan “Art not oil“, Rising Tide argues that companies such as Shell and BP are using advertising and cultural sponsorship as fig leaves for the appallingly destructive effects that their activities have on the environment. read more

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Jeroen van der Veer admits Shell TV advertising greenwash was dishonest

The interview I conducted with its chief executive, Jeroen van der Veer, broadcast on the Guardian’s website today, contains what appears to be an interesting admission. I asked him whether Shell had now stopped producing ads extolling its investments in renewable energy. Mr van der Veer does not express himself clearly at this point, but he seems to admit that his company’s previous advertising was not honest.

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It will take more than goodwill and greenwash to save the biosphere

Nor would Van der Veer give me a straight answer to another straight question: "Is there any investment you would not make on ethical grounds?" I asked this six times. He was unable to furnish me with an example.

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Royal Dutch Shell victim of Madoff Ponzi fraud

Fresh details of the human cost of the apparent Ponzi scheme, in which capital from new investors was used to pay interest to existing investors, also began to emerge yesterday. The pension fund operated by the Netherlands branch of Royal Dutch Shell said that it had a $45 million exposure to the alleged fraud. The fund, which manages the retirement savings of thousands of Shell workers, is in deficit.

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Oil giant’s fuel ads misleading says watchdog

Shell's Fuel Economy Formula, a fuel additive it claims gives better economy than untreated fuel, went on sale in 2006. Its advertising campaign said it was "designed to take you further". But after a 2 -year investigation, the commission has decided to charge Shell with breaches of the Fair Trading Act. It says the advertisements were misleading.

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Shell’s pension underfunded, contributions must rise

The fund said in a letter sent to its members this week that its funding ratio -- a measure of how well a pension scheme can meet its liabilities -- was 85 percent at the end of November, down from 180 percent at the end of 2007. A full copy of the letter is published on activist website royaldutchshellplc.com.

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Shell’s pension underfunded

International Herald Tribune: Royal Dutch Shell's Dutch pension fund has fallen into deficit as share market turmoil knocked 40 percent off the fund's value, forcing the oil major and employees to increase contributions

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Shell’s Dutch pension fund tumbles by 40pc

Plunging equity markets have seen the total assets of Royal Dutch Shell's Dutch Pension Fund fall below the level required by Holland's central bank, although the company's UK pension scheme remains fully funded.

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Shell fined 10.5 million euros after being caught in another price fixing cartel

“Compliance with antitrust rules remains a top priority for management,” said Wendel Broere, spokesman for The Hague- based Royal Dutch Shell, Europe’s largest oil company, which was fined 10.5 million euros. The company hasn’t decided whether to appeal.

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Chevron Case Weighs Extent of Overseas Liability

Early next year, Royal Dutch Shell PLC faces a similar case in New York federal court stemming from the 1995 death of Ken Saro-Wiwa, an activist in oil-rich coastal Nigeria critical of the oil industry's environmental impacts. Shell has denied to an oil-industry publication that it was complicit and called the allegation "false and without merit."

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Shell death toll ‘higher than peers’

Last week Shell and service player Amec were each fined £150,000 ($230,000) after an Amec worker died during operations at Clipper. An inspector with the UK's Health & Safety Executive said in a report accident had been caused by the two companies “failing to manage well-known and readily foreseeable hazards”, and said that, had adequate risk assessments been carried out, the “accident could have been avoided”.

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Workforce deaths at Shell higher than for other western oil groups

Shell said: "We are deeply saddened by these losses. Of these fatalities, 17 happened in our upstream business, mainly on the roads, or at high-risk locations like Nigeria, where two lives were lost due to assaults and a third died as a result of a fire caused by criminals stealing oil from a pipeline."

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