Why does the fight for justice take so long? Why is it so difficult to hold Big Oil to account? Why does it take years even decades to drag oil executives, kicking and screaming, into a court-room?
#ShellGuilty
Despite COVID-19, activists will still pressure Shell over climate failure at AGM tomorrow
Despite COVID-19, activists plan to protest about Shell’s climate failure at its Annual General Meeting tomorrow.
As Shell spins a commitment to “net zero” by 2050, critics wave red warning flags
Shell, a company often vilified for being complicit in human rights abuses in Nigeria, of rampant pollution and ignoring the risks of climate change for decades, belatedly wants us to believe it is central to the climate fight.
Shell Criticized for “Cynical” Co-option of International Women’s Day
Shell’s latest grotesque greenwashing propaganda was put out for International Women’s day, when the company rebranded its logo to “She’ll”, along with the strapline: “#Makethefuture gender balanced.”
Shell: “We’re going to get as much out of oil and gas for as long as we can”
“Shell’s concern, deeper than its fossil-fuel identity and more urgent than the climate crisis, is Shell. I don’t believe it’s going to lead us to the Paris climate goals, and Shell probably doesn’t believe it will either.”
After 25 years, will the courts finally find #ShellGuilty?
2020 is the year that the chickens finally come home to roost for Shell. It can evade justice no more. It has run out of places to hide.
In Remembrance of Ogoni 9: will the “Desk Killers” ever be brought to justice?
It is now 24 years since the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, and other Ogoni in Nigeria in 1995. The Ogoni 9, as they are called, were murdered for their campaign against the oil giant Shell, whose rampant double standards and pollution had caused the Ogoni community to mobilise.