JOHN DONOVAN NOVEMBER 14, 2014 ARTICLE

Pending Vacancy for Company Secretary of Royal Dutch Shell Plc?

Nov 14th, 2014

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APPLICATIONS INVITED FOR A PENDING VACANCY AT ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC FOR THE POSITION OF COMPANY SECRETARY AND GENERAL COUNSEL CORPORATE. THE VACANCY ARISES FROM THE PENDING RETIREMENT OF THE CURRENT HOLDER, MR MICHIEL BRANDJES (ABOVE).  GENEROUS SALARY, CHAUFFEUR, PRIVATE JET AND BONUS SCHEME FOR THE RIGHT PERSON.

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS

• Must have flexible integrity, a wiliness to bend rules and regulations, communicate in double Dutch, participate in cover-ups (e.g. the Brent Bravo scandal), mislead financial regulators and shareholders (reserves scandal), ignore emails, even from Shell shareholders; delay issuance of profit warnings; put the best interests of crooked Shell directors first, in the confident knowledge that they are insured against incompetence, negligence and dishonesty, and can still walk away with an $18.5 million payoff (Sir Philip) even if they ruin the company.
• Be prepared to conspire with colleagues, anticipating potentially embarrassing questions that might be raised at the Shell AGM and devising deliberately evasive and misleading answers.
• Willing to have tea and biscuits with Messrs Kane and Rooney when they make their annual OSSL blackmail pilgrimage to the Shell AGM,  demanding payment for alcohol used to bribe Irish cops on Shell’s behalf.
• Vigorously defend Shell’s whitewash of its support for Hitler and the Nazi.
• Fend off all claims that Shell has stolen Intellectual Property.
• Be prepared to authorise private undercover spies to infiltrate and destroy/undermine perceived enemies, such as Greenpeace and anyone that sues Shell.

This assessment of ideal requirements is based on the current occupant of the office of Shell Company Secretary and his recent predecessors.

Interested?

This is the link you need to use for all Shell job applications. 

http://www.shell.com/global/aboutshell/careers.html

Note from John Donovan. The timing of this invitation is based on my information that Mr Brandjes is 60 years old in December and will be retiring from Shell. If this is wrong, then he only needs to let me know and it will be removed immediately. I would send him an email to double check but he never bothers to reply even though I am a Shell shareholder. Nonetheless, I hope that he has a long enjoyable retirement whenever that day arrives.

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Sep 4th, 2012

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Free access to over 37,000 articles,comment, historical information and news archive relating tocorporate tax dodgersRoyal Dutch Shell, theworlds largest company by revenue.

A TV documentary feature about our co-founder John Alfred Donovan, has aired in many countries. A related article was published in 10 languages.

John Alfred Donovan is credited onzoominfo.com as being the founder, owner and Group Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell. In a highly reputable book published in 2014, he is unmasked as being a former employee of Shell Corporate Affairs Security. He is in fact a long term shareholder in Royal Dutch Shell Plc and its predecessor, Shall Transport & Trading Company Limited.

This website provides a global platform, on a responsible basis, for Shell whistleblowers to put confidential information, including insider information and leaked documents, into the public domain e.g. Sakhalin2. 

This non-profit website is tacitly endorsed by Shell. 

For nearly a decade, we have operated under the Royal Dutch Shell Plc top level domain name, dealing on Shell’s reluctant behalf with redirecting job applications, business proposals, Shell pension enquiries, shareholder and investment enquiries, complaints, invitations to speak at conferences, an approach from the Dutch Defence Ministry, contact on behalf of Fox Business News and CNBC, and even terrorist threats. All communications meant for Shell. A humiliation that Shellcontinues to endure. 

If confused about the relationship between John Alfred Donovan and Shell, please be assured that the same applies to Shell.

Bootlicker: Shell’s Ben van Beurden bows to Putin on Good Friday, 18 April 2014, weeks after Russia had invaded and annexed Crimea

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JOHN DONOVAN NOVEMBER 13, 2014 NEWS ROUND UP

Shell also had a bad day in the US courts

Nov 13th, 2014

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Today’s headlines about Shell’s PR debacle arising from a case in UK courts about Shell’s lying, cheating, and related environmental crimes in Nigeria, have an echo in Shell’s failed machinations in the USA courts.

Shell lawsuit against environmental groups ruled unconstitutional: LA Times

On Wednesday, a federal appeals court called Shell’s legal strategy “novel” and ruled it unconstitutional.

“As multiple accidents have already shown, Shell’s drilling plans in the Arctic are severely flawed,” Clusen said. “Shell is not equipped to handle offshore drilling in some of the world’s most treacherous waters, and we’ll continue to do all we can to stop them from endangering the precious wildlife and local fishing economies that they’re putting at risk.”

Court: Shell can’t preemptively sue greens: The Hill

The Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit Wednesday called Shell’s attempt “novel,” but said it violates the Constitution and threw it out…

Shell lawsuit against environmental groups ruled unconstitutional: Alaska Dispatch News

“Shell’s waste of time, energy and money on these lawsuits further reinforces the problem with its Arctic Ocean exploration program…”

Court Rejects Shell Suit Against Enviro. Groups: kucb

“Shell was attempting to quash dissent and circumvent due process,” he said in a statement. “It didn’t work — our legal system prevailed.” The decision leaves the door open for groups like the NRDC to take potential legal action against Shell’s prospects in the Arctic. That’s as the company tries to secure more federal approvals for a 2015 drilling season in the Chukchi Sea.

And Greenpeace has also been putting the boot in to Shell over its ill-fated and reckless Arctic drilling activities…

Greenpeace activists stage daring counter-advertising campaign against Shell: PR WEEK

Greenpeace activists took their battle against Shell’s plans to drill in the Arctic to a new level this morning with a daring counter-advertising campaign as bemused commuters looked on. Shortly before dawn this morning, a team of ten Greenpeace activists, including four experienced climbers, scaled the outside of a railway bridge on York Road, near Waterloo Station, opposite Shell’s central London offices.

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Nigeria Oil Spill Scandal another devastating blow to Shell’s reputation

Nov 13th, 2014

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This selection from today’s headlines about Shell oil spills in Nigeria says it all about a company that has proved time and time again that it cannot be trusted.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: Court documents expose Shell’s false claims on Nigeria oil spills

AllAfrica: Nigeria: Shell Lied About Amount, Impact of Bodo Oil Spills – Amnesty International

AllAfrica: Nigeria: Court Documents Expose Shell’s False Claims On Oil Spills

Guardian: Shell ignored internal warnings over Nigeria oil spills, documents suggest

The Independent: ‘Shell was told to replace pipeline six years before Nigeria oil spills’

BBC News: Shell ‘warned Nigeria pipeline could leak before spills’

BloombergBusinessweek: Shell Accused of Knowing Pipes Faulty Before Nigeria Spills

RT: Shell ignored ‘risk & hazard’ of Nigeria pipes, downplayed size of 2008 spills – court documents

UPI: Shell challenges Amnesty International oil spill report

London Evening Standard: Shell ‘ignored’ Nigerian oil pipeline warning’

SAHARA REPORTERS: Warnings Of Impending Pipeline Failure Ignored By Shell 2 Years Before Ogoniland Spills

EXTRACT: The court documents includes records that showed Shell’s senior management in Nigeria continued to warn the company that continued oil production in some areas were risky and posed dangers to surrounding ecosystems.

FULL ARTICLE PUBLISHED BY NEWSWEEK

Shell Underestimated Nigeria Oil Spills by Over 2,400%, Leaked Documents Reveal

BY AMELIA SMITH 11/13/14 AT 5:53 PM

The oil company Shell vastly underestimated the size of oil spills from its pipelines in the Niger Delta, and repeatedly ignored warnings from its own staff that the pipelines were in urgent need of maintenance, court documents exposed by human rights group Amnesty International have revealed. The failure of the company to replace the pipeline despite being told their lifespan was “non-existent or short”, eventually culminated in two devastating oil spills in 2008.

The documents, exposed by Amnesty International today, were submitted to the High Court in London by Shell as part of its defence in a lawsuit against the Dutch oil company by 15,000 Nigerians from Bodo, mostly local farmers and fishermen, in relation to compensation claims resulting from the spills.

Shell has consistently maintained that only 4,000 barrels of oil were spilt as a result of the burst pipeline – 1,640 barrels in the first spill and 2,503 in the second, despite repeated calls from Amnesty and local residents that this is a gross underestimate.

The reports used by Shell in their estimations, titled ‘Joint Investigation Visit’ reports, decide how much compensation a community gets, if any. The reports also determine the extent of the clean-up required.

According to Amnesty, an independent assessment published by the U.S. firm Accufacts Inc in 2012 said the total amount of oil spilt exceeded 100,000 barrels, 2,400% more than that claimed by Shell.

Leigh Day, the law firm representing the Bodo community, say that the the oil spill could be closer to 600,000 barrels, according to independent analysts.

Following the release of their defence documents by Amnesty, Shell acknowledged that the size of the spills is likely to have been substantially higher than their previous estimates.

However, Amnesty believes they have long known this. “Amnesty International firmly believes Shell knew the Bodo data were wrong,” said Audrey Gaughran, director for global issues at Amnesty. “If it did not it was scandalously negligent – we repeatedly gave them evidence showing they had dramatically underestimated the spills.”

“Shell has refused to engage with us and only now that they find themselves in a UK court have they been forced to come clean,” Gaughran said.

As a result of the underestimates in the reports, hundreds of thousands of people are likely to have been underpaid compensation, and many may not have received any at all.

“These spill investigation reports have cheated whole communities out of proper compensation.” Gaughran said. “For years Shell has dictated the assessment of volume spilled and damage caused in spill investigation reports, now these reports aren’t worth the paper they’re written on,” she said.

The documents also show that Shell was advised by its own staff in 2002 that the 30-year-old pipeline passing through a network of impoverished Nigerian communities desperately needed replacing.

The court papers include a note by Shell made following a 2002 internal study which says: “the remaining life of most of the [Shell] Oil Trunklines is more or less non-existent or short, while some sections contain major risk and hazard”.

Another document, an internal Shell project report dated February 2002, said the company should “initiate an immediate replacement” of the trans-Niger pipeline.

It wasn’t until six years later, in November 2008, that the company publicly admitted that there was something wrong when the 24-inch trans-Niger pipeline burst twice within two days, releasing thousands of barrels of oil.

Following the UK court case, Shell has agreed to carry out another investigation into the amount of oil spilled in the two oil spills, but will carry out the investigation itself.

“They will be investigating into their own misconduct, and this will bring exactly the same problems”, an Amnesty spokesperson told Newsweek.

Speaking to The Guardian, a spokesperson for Shell described the two spills as “deeply regrettable”. “We want to compensate fairly and quickly those who have been genuinely affected and to clean up all areas where oil has been spilled from our facilities,” he said.

“As part of the litigation process, we asked satellite remote sensing experts, hydrologists and specialists in mangrove ecology to assess how the Bodo waterways and mangroves were impacted and other relevant information addressing the question of the volume of these spills, and the extent of the damage. Having reviewed their findings, we accept that the total volume of oil released as a result of the two operational spills is likely to have exceeded the joint investigation visit estimates.”

Whilst the company have taken responsibility for the two 2008 spills, they have repeatedly blamed oil thieves for the many other incidents that have occurred along its pipelines and have refused to pay more than £15m compensation.

An Amnesty spokesperson told Newsweek: “Only two cases of oil spills in the Niger Delta have ever been taken to court, and today we have revealed that in both cases the oil company has grossly underestimated the extent of the problem. You can only imagine how this applies to the many other incidences that have occurred over the years.”

“We could possibly be looking at hundreds of thousands of more people seeking compensation”, he said.

In a statement, Shell told the BBC: “We are in the process of preparing for a trial in May 2015 regarding the Bodo operational spills, at which time internal documents produced by SPDC relating to the Trans Niger Pipeline (TNP) will be set in their proper context for review by the court.”

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From Shadowy World of Shell Corporate Security.

John Donovan unmasked as a Shell Spy

Nov 13th, 2014 

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In July of this year I published an articlepointing out my listing on zoominfo as founder, owner and Group Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell Plc.

My impressive employment history has since been updated and I am now also listed as being a Senior Lawyer and Alaska Vice President for Shell, a job Ann Pickard probably thought she had secured. 

It gets better.

A new book edited by two Associate Professors from the University of Ottawa  seems to identify me as a former employee of Shell Corporate Affairs Security. In other words, a Shell spy.

Extract from page 203 of the book edited by Jacqueline Best and Alexandra Gheciu: “The Return of the Public in Global Governance.”

In the formally private sector (private companies hiring private intelligence agencies), operatives with a background in the state intelligence services make up the bulk of the staffing of the “private” agencies, which do assignments for the state agencies and share their results with the state agencies (Donovan 2011, former employee of Shell Corporate Affairs Security).

There is a citation in the reference section of the book to an article I published in May 2011: Inside the Shadowy World of Shell Corporate Security.

One American gentleman I know, a former Shell employee who is extremely suspicious of Shell and its notorious cloak and dagger activities, will be wondering if he has been communicating with a Shell spook for the past few years. 

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