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| 1. Two Different Worlds
by Bobby Peek
November 30th, 2000
Our new constitution says we have a right to a clean and healthy environment. |
| 2. Building The Empire
Royal Dutch Shell today is among the richest and best-positioned corporations on earth. They do business in more than 140 countries, deal with 25 million customers daily, and have gross revenues in excess of $175 billion a year. |
| 3. Poisons Still With Us
In 1975, at a time when dieldrin and aldrin were being banned in the US, Shell Chemical was building a plant in Brazil to produce them. For a decade or more, beginning in 1977, Shell produced aldrin, dieldrin, endrin and other pesticides at this plant, located near Paulinia, Brazil, about 75 miles (126 kms) northwest of Sao Paulo. During that time, there were spills and mishandlings of the chemicals at the plant, at least three incidents of which were cited by government officials. |
| 4. Dangerous Places
The Pandacan Petrochemical Depots — a 30-hectare oil and petrochemical tank farm and loading complex run by a group of oil com-panies including Shell — is located in a highly populated section of Manila. |
| 5. Chronic Pollution
Royal Dutch Shell, like every other oil company, uses tons and tons of additive and auxiliary substances to enable oil and gas drilling — drilling muds and drilling fluids among them. |
| 6. Shell At Sea
On August 3rd, 1999, the Italian-owned tanker, Laura D’Amato (96,000 dwt) spilled 300,000 liters of crude into Australia’s Sydney Harbor at Gore Bay. |
| 7. Nigeria
We depend on fishing and farming, and to take that away from us — it’s genocide. If you take away our land, and then you pollute the water and so on, it’s just saying we don’t have any right to live. |
| 8. Norco, Louisiana
My question is: Are you going to be true to what you say on paper about cleaner air and about being fair and being a good neighbor. . .? |
| 9. Gas, Gas, Gas
Mr. Watts predicted that natural gas consumption could more than double over the next 20 years, and could eventually overtake oil to become the next domi-nant fuel. . . |
| 10. China & Tibet
China is a new area for us, and I think if you look 20 years into the future, it will be a key area of focus. |
| 11. Oh, Canada
by Andrew Nikiforuk, "Maybe You’d Fight Too," Globe & Mail, November 14, 2001, p. 25
November 14th, 2001
"They have industrialized a landscape as beautiful and ecologically precious as Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front." |
| 12. Sensitive Places
In the summer of 1968, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) decided to open for oil and gas development a 550,000-acre region of forests and streams in northern Michigan known a "Pigeon River Country." |
| 13. Raise the Drilling Rigs
I see climate change as a real global challenge, which is also generating new business opportunities. Grasping these will be key to Shell’s "licence to grow." |
| 15. The Work Ahead
...Our future must be one in which Shell companies excel in environmental performance; one in which we actively support governments in developing sensible policies to deal with environmental problems; and one in which we are open about our policies and practices and performance. . . . |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jack Doyle is director of J.D. Associates, a Washington, DC consulting and investigative research firm specializing in environmental and business issues. |
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