
Oh no, poor Shell only made $4.26 billion in profit last quarter—down nearly a third thanks to falling gas prices. Let’s all shed a carbon-neutral tear for Europe’s biggest fossil fuel polluter as it clutches its pearls and assures investors it’ll still shovel billions back into their pockets through buybacks. Because priorities.
Gas prices across Europe tumbled nearly 20% between April and June, helped along by a rare moment of geopolitical sanity—a ceasefire between Iran and Israel—and lower demand from China. The result? A sudden market correction that Shell calls “non-fundamentals-based volatility,” which is CEO Wael Sawan’s adorable way of saying, we didn’t see this shit coming. read more
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Wael Sawan pledges to save Shell’s chemical disaster by doing what Shell does best: selling off assets, cutting jobs, and blaming China.
If there’s one thing Shell loves more than raking in billions from polluting the planet, it’s failing upward with a straight face. And this week, CEO Wael Sawan has bravely stepped forward to announce that—surprise!—Shell’s chemicals division is a flaming trainwreck. But don’t worry, folks, they’ve got a plan: shut things down, blame Europe, and “explore partnerships.” read more
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Ah yes, Shell—that tireless crusader for a greener tomorrow, provided “green” means your bank account hemorrhaging cash at a Shell Recharge station and nobody at HQ picking up the bloody phone.
Meet John Stephen, just your average British bloke living in France who thought he was doing the right thing: driving an electric car across Spain at Christmas, stopping at one of Shell’s shiny, eco-branded charging points. What he got instead? A €1,195 invoice that reads less like a charge and more like a ransom note. read more
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Wael Sawan reassures Wall Street that Shell’s morally bankrupt business model is working just great—no passport change needed.
Stop the presses! Shell, the planet-roasting oil baron, will not be moving its listing to the U.S. any time soon—because why mess with a system that’s already coughing up billions in buybacks while the world burns?
CEO Wael Sawan, delivering his signature “we care about shareholder value, not carbon footprints” charm, went on CNBC’s Squawk Box Europe this week to calm Wall Street’s eager little hearts. Despite previous hints that Shell might chase “the bright lights of New York,” Sawan has now confirmed that, no, this isn’t a “live discussion.” Translation: they’re already making a killing on the FTSE—why relocate when the cash faucet is flowing? read more
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SHELL AND EXXON CASH OUT €3 BILLION WHILE GRONINGEN CRUMBLES

Oh, how deliciously heartwarming it is to see Shell—the world’s cuddliest climate arsonist—and its old fossil fuel flame ExxonMobil raking in a long-overdue €3 billion payout from their Dutch gas venture, NAM. Because obviously, after a mere few decades of literal earthquakes, community destruction, and environmental degradation in Groningen, what really matters is that the poor, beleaguered shareholders finally got paid.
Yes, finally. According to NAM’s 2024 annual report, this is the first payout since 2017, and each titan of oil-soaked virtue gets a nice €1.5 billion cuddle. Shell can now finally afford more PR consultants to greenwash its image. read more
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By Editorial Team | Generated with AI assistance and reviewed by an editor: 22 JULY 2025
Move over Blofeld, step aside SMERSH – the real villains of our age wear corporate logos, not eye patches.
Shell and BP, those beloved darlings of Wall Street and favourite investments of titans like BlackRock and Vanguard, have once again proven that when it comes to greed, ruthlessness, and planetary destruction, fiction can’t compete with reality.
Let’s start with Shell – the oil behemoth that markets itself as a climate-conscious “energy transition leader” while simultaneously stomping on anything resembling ethics or sustainability. These paragons of corporate virtue just pulled out of a six-year attempt to define a net-zero emissions standard, according to the Financial Times (22 July, Reuters). Why? Because the draft standard dared suggest companies should stop developing new oil and gas fields. The horror! read more
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Anonymous New comment on your post “Shell’s biggest fails”
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The story so far:
Both BP and Shell are in the process of divesting their Defined Benefit Pension Schemes.
BP to Aviva
Shell to Legal and General
Shell US has already divested its Defined Benefit Pension Scheme to Prudential
BP is downsizing i.e. divesting Renewables Assets under pressure from activist Elliot. Thereby, retaining core assets at an attractive price.
Wael Sawan Shell CEO using carefully chosen words vehemently denying that Shell is in the process of taking over BP. read more
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“And speaking of Shell’s finest: enter Simon Henry, Shell’s former CFO and now newly appointed BP board member. A man intimately connected to the hydrocarbon reserves scandal.”
Ah, Shell and BP. Britain’s answer to “Which fossil-fueled supervillain do you prefer?” Now there’s murmuring that Shell—the world’s leading oil-slicked PR machine and gold-medal winner in the Deadliest Workplace Olympics—might consider buying BP, its slightly less polished cousin. It’s like Dracula pondering whether to adopt Frankenstein.
But before we get too sentimental, let’s remember what Shell brings to the table:
- A glorious history of employee care, like handing Dutch staff over to the Nazis during WWII, and later using workers as test subjects for carcinogenic chemicals. Experimental cruelty disguised as corporate efficiency.
- A North Sea platform scandal so outrageous it could be a Monty Python sketch, were it not for the dead offshore workers. Lifeboats were reportedly unseaworthy, and Shell’s internal policy was colloquially dubbed “Touch Fuck All.” Charming.
- The 2004 reserves scandal, where Shell admitted it had wildly exaggerated its hydrocarbon reserves. Shareholders were shocked. The SEC fined Shell $120 million, which the company could pay using just one of its greenwashing budgets.
- Nigeria, where Shell’s legacy is so soaked in blood, corruption, and environmental devastation that it makes the Exxon Valdez spill look like a spilt milkshake.
- Hakluyt, Shell’s in-house intelligence firm. If MI6 and Blackwater had a baby who hated Greenpeace, it’d be Hakluyt. This covert unit reportedly spied on activists, journalists, and anyone else who dared whisper the truth.
- Let’s not forget Shell’s ties to the apartheid regime, its cameo in the Al-Yamamah BAE oil-for-arms scandal, and its incestuous intelligence links through Hakluyt.
- And then there’s SPECTRE and SMERSH… oh wait, those are fictional. Shell isn’t. It’s worse.
Investors like BlackRock and Vanguard still happily line their pockets from Shell’s sludge-soaked profits. Because what’s a little ecological genocide when there are dividends to collect? read more
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Shell, that noble torchbearer of fossil-fuelled “progress,” is once again in the headlines—not for saving the planet (don’t be silly), but for the hotly whispered prospect of gobbling up BP, its longtime frenemy in pollution, profit, and public-relations gymnastics.
Because when you’ve already left a wake of ecological destruction, human rights abuses, and accounting scandals, what’s one more body on the pile?
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Shell: The Serial Offender That Keeps on Drilling
Let’s start with the obvious: Shell isn’t just an oil company. It’s a cautionary tale in human and corporate depravity. This is the firm that: read more
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Let’s give a warm, fiery round of applause to Shell plc—the undisputed heavyweight champion of corporate facepalms. This week’s episode in the long-running series What the Actual Fuck, Shell? features the oil Goliath filing amended financial reports in the US, after its beloved auditor EY—yes, the Ernst & Young you know and regret—forgot the actual rules of auditing.
Apparently, the lead audit partner overstayed their welcome on Shell’s books, breaking SEC rotation rules two years in a row. But don’t worry! No financials were changed. Which is great, because if there’s one thing more reliable than Shell’s gas leaks, it’s their ability to break the rules without breaking a sweat. read more
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Shell even reassured us it won’t be buying BP—for at least six months. How noble.

Once upon a time in the Kingdom of Oil, two fossil-fuelled juggernauts stood shoulder to shoulder atop a scorched planet. Their names? Shell and —the Bonnie and Clyde of carbon capitalism, the Gordon Gekkos of global warming. If the Earth had lungs, these two would’ve been chain-smoking them for decades.
And now, just when you thought it couldn’t get more grotesque, we have merger whispers. Shell flirted with the idea of swallowing BP whole, because nothing says “energy transition” quite like an all-British megamerger to keep the fossil flame alive. read more
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It’s almost poetic how Shell manages to be simultaneously everywhere and innocent—like a billionaire arsonist blaming the match. The latest flare-up in the company’s scorched-earth public relations portfolio? An espionage scandal in Italy so shady it makes James Bond look like a data privacy officer.
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Shell’s New Hobby: Spying for Fun and (Mostly) Profit
Turns out that Shell, that shining beacon of climate leadership (pause for laughter), has allegedly been a customer of a rogue Italian outfit called Equalize. Now, Equalize isn’t your average reputation-laundering consultancy. No, this one comes with options: hacking tax authorities, infiltrating law enforcement systems, bribing witnesses, spying on employees—and allegedly serving a side of mafia, Mossad, and Vatican connections. read more
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday 20 June 2025
High Court trial finds that Shell plc and its former Nigerian subsidiary can be held legally responsible for legacy oil pollution in Nigeria.
The High Court has ruled that Shell plc and its former Nigerian subsidiary can be held legally responsible for legacy, or historic, oil pollution which has devastated the environments of two communities in Nigeria. The judgement means that Shell, and its former Nigerian subsidiary, can be held liable for oil spills and leaks going back many years.
Years of chronic oil spills have left the Bille and Ogale communities, which have a combined population of 50,000, without clean water, unable to farm and fish and with serious ongoing risk to public health. Shell tried to prevent these claims from getting to trial with a range of technical, legal arguments that have now been firmly rejected by the Court.
After a four-week High Court preliminary issues trial from 13 February to Friday 7 March 2025, Mrs Justice May ruled on Friday 20 June 2025 that Shell’s attempts to restrict the scope of the upcoming full trial, to be held in 2027, had failed. She made several findings that are important for environmental claims generally.
Claims for legacy pollution
· Shell had argued that there was a strict five-year limitation period and that the communities were barred from claiming in relation to any oil spills that took place more than five years ago, even if they had not cleaned up the pollution. The judge rejected this and left it open to the communities to claim for oil spills which occurred more than five years ago, including if Shell has failed to clean them up properly.
· The judge found that a failure to clean up could be an ongoing breach of Shell’s legal obligation to clean up and could create a fresh right to make a legal claim for every day that the pollution remained. The judge also considered that an oil spill could be a trespass and, where that was the case, “a new cause of action will arise each day that oil remains on a claimant’s land”.
· This is a very significant development in these claims and more broadly for legacy environmental pollution caused by multinational corporations around the world. The legal position following the UK Supreme Court case of Jalla v Shell International Trading and Shipping Vo Ltd [2024] AC 595 appeared to be that corporations could not be held liable for legacy pollution if the claimants failed to file their claim within the relevant limitation period. However, the Judge distinguished this claim from Jalla and made it clear that the claimants are not prevented from bringing claims if a polluter has left contamination on their land, even if a spill happened many years ago.
Illegal bunkering and refining
· During the preliminary issues trial Shell sought to blame much of the pollution in the Niger Delta on illegal activities such as oil theft (known as ‘bunkering’) or local artisanal refining of oil. The communities’ lawyers, Leigh Day, argued that Shell had repeatedly failed to take basic steps to stop the bunkering and resulting illegal refining and oil pollution, from taking place.
· Shell argued that it could never be liable for pollution arising from bunkering or illegal refining. The judge rejected Shell’s arguments and found that Shell could be liable for damage from bunkering or illegal refining if it failed to protect its infrastructure, and particularly if there is evidence that its own staff have been complicit in the illegal activities.
· The two communities allege that there is clear evidence that Shell’s employees and contractors are themselves complicit in illegal bunkering which causes devastating pollution in the Niger Delta and this will be a central issue in the trial which is due to take place in 2027. The communities are currently preparing to cite substantial evidence to support their allegations of complicity.
Liability of Shell plc
· Shell argued at the preliminary issues trial that the Nigerian legal framework prevented claims against its parent company, Shell plc, for oil spills from pipelines. The judge rejected this argument and concluded that Shell plc can still be liable for these spills.
· This means that the claims against Shell plc will proceed to trial and there will be scrutiny of Shell plc’s involvement in its Nigerian operation over many years, which resulted in chronic pollution to the Bille and Ogale communities. The decision, together with the Supreme Court’s decision in Okpabi v Shell plc, also opens the door for Nigerian communities to pursue claims against Shell plc in the Nigerian courts, should they choose to do so.
Nigerian Constitution
· The communities also argued that Shell’s pollution breached their constitutional rights under the Nigerian constitution and African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights. The Judge found that oil pollution can engage the right to life under the Nigerian Constitution, finding that “knowledge about the impact of environmental harm has moved on such that there is now a greater readiness to see polluting activities as capable of engaging the right to life” (para 326).
· The Judge noted that the “direction of travel” of the Nigerian Supreme Court was to recognise the relevance of fundamental human rights in cases of pollution. However, she did not allow the constitutional claims to proceed against Shell since as an English judge she felt that such a legal development about the interpretation of the Nigerian Constitution should be left to the Nigerian courts.
· The onus is now therefore on the Nigerian courts to clarify this point about whether an oil company such as Shell can be liable for breaches of fundamental constitutional rights arising from serious pollution.
Next steps
The trial is a significant moment in the legal claim by the Bille and Ogale communities, who have been fighting UK-based Shell plc and oil company Renaissance, formerly Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd, for a clean-up and compensation since 2015. Neither community has had a proper clean up despite the ongoing serious risk to public health documented by the United National Environment Programme in 2011.
The Bille and Ogale communities were represented in the trial by Leigh Day international team partners Daniel Leader and Matthew Renshaw who instructed Fountain Court’s Anneliese Day KC, Matrix’s Phillippa Kaufmann KC, Anirudh Mathur and Catherine Arnold, 2 Temple Gardens’ Alistair McKenzie and Blackstone Chambers George Molyneaux.
Reacting to the High Court judgement, the leader of the Ogale community, King Bebe Okpabi said:
“It has been 10 years now since we started this case, we hope that now Shell will stop these shenanigans and sit down with us to sort this out. People in Ogale are dying; Shell need to bring a remedy. We thank the judicial system of the UK for this judgment.”
Leigh Day international department partner, Matthew Renshaw said:
“Shell’s attempts to knock out or restrict these claims through a preliminary trial of Nigerian law issues have been comprehensively rebuffed. This outcome opens the door to Shell being held responsible for their legacy pollution as well as their negligence in failing to take reasonable steps to prevent pollution from oil theft or local refining. This sets an important new legal precedent in environmental claims against multinational corporations.
The trial against Shell and its former Nigerian subsidiary, including in relation to the complicity of their staff in illegal activities that caused pollution, will now take place in early 2027. Our clients reiterate, as they have repeatedly for 10 years, that they simply want Shell to clean up their pollution and compensate them for their loss of livelihood. It is high time that Shell stop their legal filibuster and do the right thing.”
ENDS
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Notes to editors:
1. The Ogale and Bille communities in the Niger Delta (estimated combined population of 50,000) have been fighting for justice against the British oil and gas giant, Shell plc, for ten years. They simply seek to ensure that the oil pollution which has devastated their communities is cleaned up to international standards (which Shell concedes they are legally obliged to do) and that compensation is provided for their loss of livelihoods and the destruction of their way of life, given that these rural communities’ ability to farm and fish has been largely destroyed.
2. On 12 February 2021, the UK Supreme Court unanimously ruled that there was a “good arguable case” that Shell plc, the UK parent company, was legally responsible for the pollution caused by its Nigerian subsidiary and that the case would proceed in the English courts. The judgment represented a watershed moment in the fight for corporate accountability. The Supreme Court confirmed in both Okpabi v Shell and its earlier 2019 decision in Lungowe v Vedanta (environmental pollution from a Zambian copper mine) that parent companies of multinational companies in the UK can be held legally responsible for harms committed by their foreign subsidiaries, and the scope of that potential liability is much wider than previously understood.
3. Shell has shown no interest in providing remedy to the Ogale and Bille communities at a time when they are making unprecedented global profits in recent years. The case is proceeding to trial to determine whether Shell’s parent company in London, as well as its former Nigerian subsidiary, are legally responsible for the harm caused to the communities in Nigeria.
4. Shell has sought to delay these claims for over a decade but there will now be a full trial of the Bille individual claims (and likely the Bille Community claim) in March 2027 on the full range of allegations the communities have set out in their legal claims. read more
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Nigeria pardons activist Ken Saro-Wiwa 30 years after execution
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BBC News 13 June 202
Nigeria’s president has pardoned the late activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, 30 years after his execution sparked global outrage.
Along with eight other campaigners, Mr Saro-Wiwa was convicted of murder, then hanged in 1995 by the then-military regime.
Many believed the activists were being punished for leading protests against the operations of oil multinationals, particularly Shell, in Nigeria’s Ogoniland. Shell has long denied any involvement in the executions.
Though the pardons have been welcomed, some activists and relatives say they do not go far enough. read more
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Behold the Shell Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex: a billion-dollar plastic-spewing behemoth where climate pledges come to die, and carcinogens go to party. Nestled in the rolling green of Potter Township, this petrochemical monster—cheerily dubbed “Shell Polymers Monaca”—is Shell’s love letter to deregulation, tax holidays, and fossil-fueled hypocrisy.
Built with the subtlety of a Bond villain lair and $1.65 billion in public subsidies (yes, you read that right), the plant turns fracked gas from the Marcellus Shale into over a million tons of plastic pellets per year. Because when Shell talks about “the energy transition,” what they really mean is transitioning the planet into a floating garbage patch. read more
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What do you get when you cross two oil giants with a fondness for dictatorship-era espionage, apartheid-era diplomacy, and fireballs of carcinogens? You get Shell and BP: the dynamic duo of destruction, the real masters of global transition—transitioning the planet from livable to cooked, one explosive scandal at a time.
Let’s begin with , Britain’s teetering national oil champion, desperately trying to cling to its “independence” like a CEO clings to a bonus while oil rigs burn. With shares down 22% over the last year, BP is now more of a discount bin than a blue-chip. The vultures are circling—US oil giants and even Shell (because nothing says “rescue” like handing the keys to another moral sinkhole). read more
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