GREENPEACE CAMPAIGN TO STOP SHELL IN THE ARCTIC: Oil giant Shell responds 22MAR12

shell oil has a legacy of environmental rape and pillage around the world, most notably in the Niger river delta of Nigeria. There they have totally disregarded their impact on the environment, poisoning and polluting the land, water and air, destroying the lives of the local population. They have brought economic benefit in the delta only to the government officials who receive the bribes and payouts for approval of drilling and export contracts, the local population continues to live in obscene poverty made worse by increased disease and illness caused by shell's operations there. THIS is what shell wants to bring to the Arctic with their plans for drilling there. There is no way shell has the ability to clean up any oil spill in the Arctic, and considering their environmental record around the world they should not be trusted to operate any oil or gas drilling facilities in such a fragile environment. Please participate in Greenpeace's letter campaign against shell oil drilling in the Arctic. FOR PEOPLE IN THE METRO D.C. AREA, Giant Supermarkets are owned by a Dutch company with corporate financial ties to shell oil (thus the shell gas credits earned by shopping at Giant). I have stopped shopping at Giant, saving a few cents on gas is not worth it to me knowing what royal dutch shell's legacy is around the world is, hope you will think about it before shopping at Giant too.....

Shell plans to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean this summer. Take action and demand Shell stop its plans to drill in the Arctic. Right this minute a global fleet of Arctic destroyers is speeding towards one of the last unspoiled places on earth. The ships are part of oil giant Shell’s mission to drill the very first wells in the pristine waters off the coast of Alaska. It’s insane, but melting sea ice from global warming has made it a reality. If Shell finds oil, the Arctic oil rush will be on. It’s not over yet though. People are pushing back. In New Zealand, Greenpeace activists (including Xena Warrior Princess star Lucy Lawless) occupied a drill ship and prevented it from leaving for the Arctic for several days. And just last week activists occupied two icebreakers in Finland. But to stop Shell for good, we eventually need the public support of millions around the world. That means you. Join the 300,000 people from around the world who have already taken action and demand Shell stop its plans to put the fragile Arctic at risk. Widespread public opposition here in the US is going to be the key to stopping Shell. The US government is responsible for giving Shell the green light to drill. Greenpeace will be delivering these messages to the company soon. Our goal is to add the names of at least 40,000 Americans to that list before we do. Your message matters. Shell isn't prepared for a disaster in the Arctic Ocean. No one is. The Arctic Ocean makes the Gulf of Mexico look like a flat, calm lake. With constant high seas, icebergs and massive waves, there’s no way to effectively cleanup an oil spill in the Arctic Ocean. Even the head of the US Coast Guard has publicly admitted that his agency would have little chance of dealing with a spill in the frozen Arctic on their own.  The plan Shell has submitted actually includes using things like shovels, brooms and a sniffer dog called “Tara” to cleanup a potential spill. It would be funny if there wasn’t so much at stake. All Shell cares about is its corporate bottom line. Polar bears and unspoiled natural beauty are just obstacles to making ever greater profits. Together we can create a public obstacle Shell can’t overcome — but it’s going to take millions of us. Add your voice to the growing list of people who will not stay quiet as one of the last wildernesses on earth is destroyed and help save the Arctic. Sincerely, Dan Howells Greenpeace USA Deputy Campaign Director P.S. Last year, Shell reported it had over 200 spills. It will only be a matter of time before a spill happens in the pristine polar bear habitat of the Arctic. Take action today and help save the Arctic before Shell ruins it forever.  Shell responded to our opposition around its plans to drill in the Arctic by filing for one of the broadest and most restrictive injunctions in US history against Greenpeace USA. It’s exactly the kind of anti-democratic reaction you would expect from a major oil company. Regardless of what happens in court, Greenpeace is going to continue to oppose Shell’s plans. But we’ll only win if we have your support. Join 300,000 people from around the world and demand that Shell stop its plans to put the fragile Arctic at risk.       Click here to forward this message.
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Shell Oil: Own up, pay up and clean up 10NOV11

SHELL OIL is one of the worst of the big oil companies. They have a history of human rights abuses as well as environmental degradation in Nigeria and they get away with these crimes by paying off civilian government and military officials in Nigeria. Their operations in the Delta region of Nigeria have done nothing to improve the lives of the area residents, in fact they are worse off because of Shell's total lack of corporate morality concerning their economic and environmental responsibilities. AND Shell wants the U.S. government to approve their plans to do to the North Slope of Alaska and the Arctic seas what they have done to the Nigerian Delta! Please participate in this action by Amnesty International to force Shell to accept responsibility for the environmental and human rights disaster they have created in the Nigerian Delta and to clean it up and make restitution to the residents.

	Shell Oil considers the oil spills it caused in Nigeria a "tragedy." Then why does the oil giant refuse to clean up its act?
	There used to be life and hope in the Niger Delta town of Bodo, a village filled with thriving fish ponds and mangrove trees. Then in 2008, two oil spills changed everything -- twice, nearby Shell Oil pipelines spewed toxic oil for weeks before they were repaired. "It killed all the mangrove trees, the ecosystem, everything we put there. Everything just died in a day." --Bodo resident Christian Lekoya Kpandei What was Shell Oil's initial response to the devastation in Bodo, to Christian's ruined fish ponds and livelihood? Silence. Although Shell has accepted liability for these two spills, it is still silent on the issue of undertaking a comprehensive clean-up of the affected area, fully compensating the people whose lives have been devastated by the spills, and rehabilitating the affected area. Counter Shell's silence with some noise of your own. Tell Royal Dutch Shell's CEO that it's time his company own up, pay up and clean up its human rights mess in the Niger Delta. The facts are indisputable. According to a recently released UN report, Shell has failed to adequately clean up pollution in the Niger Delta for years. It's a familiar story these days -- yet another corporation trying to weasel out of a mess of its own making. Today, on the 16th anniversary of the execution of Nigerian environmental and human rights defender Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight of his fellow activists, Amnesty is launching a new report that reviews the record of the Bodo spill and adds damning new facts. Shell Oil, which recently reported profits of $7.2 billion for July-September 2011, initially offered the Bodo community just a few thousand dollars and 50 bags of rice, beans, sugar and tomatoes as relief for the disaster. Shell Oil is one of the three biggest companies in the world by revenue, a juggernaut in international business. But when it comes down to paying for a cleanup fund in Nigeria -- to pay basic compensation to residents like Christian who lost everything in the oil spill Shell is liable for -- this multinational corporation refuses to take responsibility. Of course, if Shell commits to a $1 billion cleanup fund in Nigeria, as Amnesty is asking it to do, Shell's shareholder profits may suffer a little. But we believe corporations should not put the profit of a few over the health and human rights of entire communities. Stand up for "the 99%", wherever they are. We can't be silent while the human rights to water and livelihood are being destroyed by corporations like Shell. Let's win a key victory in the fight against environmental abuses in the oil industry and for human rights. Sign our petition now calling on Shell Oil to clean up its Niger Delta mess. For justice, Tanuka Loha Director, Demand Dignity Campaign Amnesty International USA P.S. Momentum is already on our side! Just last month the US Supreme Court agreed to hear two cases that will determine whether corporations can be sued in US courts for human rights abuses committed abroad. One of them involves a group of Nigerian nationals who sued Royal Dutch Petroleum and two of its Shell Oil subsidiaries, alleging their complicity in serious human rights abuses by the Nigerian government in the early 1990s to suppress activism against the oil industry.		"It was all green" Christian Lekoya Kpandei, ©Amnesty International Speak out for the people of Bodo in the Niger Delta. Demand that Shell Oil make things right.
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