Honesty, integrity and respect these are some of Shells core values according to their own website.
But do they apply those same values to places where they drill for and extract oil? When they tell us that they will not ruin the arctic environment, how can we test and be sure that they will do what they say they will do? Well one way is to look at some of their past work in two places on this fragile planet.
Farmers and fishermen in Nigeria are taking Royal Dutch Shell to court over three oil spills and pollution between 2004 and 2007 ''my community is a ghost land as a result of the devastation. We had good vegetation. today we have respiratory problems and are getting sick'' Eric Dooh from the Goi community that lives between two pipelines said, shell dispute these claims. This is not respect for people as they espouse on their website, it is also not in any way honest to those people affected and there is also no integrity to these actions either.
Follow the whole story go here
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/11/us-shell-nigeria-lawsuit-idUSBRE8991SE20121011
''Shell aims to do no arm to people and to protect the environment.You should treat others fairly and with respect'' taken from the Shell code of conduct.
If Shell were to adhere to these values there wouldnt be any need for a court trial for the Nigerian destruction and devastation, but they cannot even treat european oil fields with respect, honesty and integrity when an oil spill happens off the Scottish coast, here they do harm and fail to protect the environment and this can be seen in the 2011 oil spill 112 miles off the coast of Aberdean. At the time it was desribed as one of the worst oil spills in 10 years,spilling 218 tonnes of oil into the water and threatening local wildlife.
Go here for that report
So to sum up, Shell have created rules, core values and proper ways of conduct that they habitually break and this more than anything else sends mixed messages to the world and casts a shadow of doubt and extreme suspicion across the very image they they are trying to protect, as a result you are left in no doubt that YOU CANNOT BE SURE OF SHELL.
The arctic cannot afford to have companies like this attempting to drill for oil in an environmnet that one of its rivals, Total, has already said would be impossible to clean up if a major oil spill were to be inflicted upon it, that is why we must STOP SHELL and SAVE THE ARCTIC.
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