Shell Petroleum

From The Matrix

ROYAL DUTCH/SHELL The world�s number 2 oil and gas group has 9,423 gasoline stations in the United States and $149 billion in sales.

Black marks:�In Nigeria in 1995, nine Ogoni activists were killed by the military regime for protesting Shell�s operations there, leading the Sierra Club Board of Directors to approve a boycott of Shell for its human-rights violations. At the time, Shell was the largest oil producer (and one of the biggest polluters) in Nigeria, creating almost half of the country�s wealth. Much of this money supported the military government; little, if any, went to the communities of the Niger Delta, where Shell�s leaky pipelines contaminated farmlands and fisheries. (See www.sierra club. org/human-rights/nigeria.)

Refining record:�Of the seven Shell refineries Environmental Defense evaluated, four ranked in the bottom 20 percent; one ranked in the top 15 percent.

Stance on global warming:�A former member of the Global Climate Coalition, Shell has since joined the Business Environmental Leadership Council. Green initiatives:�Shell Hydrogen is a participant in the California Fuel Cell Partnership (see BP entry).

[copied from http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200109/hattam1.asp]