Plusieurs grandes entreprises, dont Shell, seront présentes au Forum mondial de l’eau, qui se déroule à Marseille du 12 au 17 mars. Une présence qui pourrait déclencher quelques controverses concernant les impacts des entreprises sur la ressource en eau. Certaines d’entre elles tentent cependant d’appréhender ce nouveau risque. « Le management du risque-eau par les [...]

Shell is close to reaching a settlement with the United States in a bribery case in Nigeria. It is expected that the Anglo-Dutch oil company will receive a 30 million dollar fine. Shell has been charged with the large-scale bribery of Nigerian customs officials in order get equipment faster into the country [...]

Public revolt in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and elsewhere makes it clear that many yearn for rights and liberties. But states are not the only institutions obligated to respect human rights. Companies also have human rights responsibilities and can be complicit in violating human rights. For example, during the first days of [...]

Ten companies were recognized today at this year’s World Business and Development Awards (WBDA) for their efforts in improving the lives of some of the world’s most disadvantaged communities. [...]

A UNEP report says that Shell is only responsible for 10% of oil spills in the Niger delta over the last 40 years, “the rest has come from local people illegally stealing oil and sabotaging company pipelines”, reveals The Guardian. The report by the United Nations Environment Programme generated many entries in Covalence EthicalQuote database [...]

The chief executives of the world’s biggest international oil companies will testify on Tuesday that the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico “was preventable’’, publicly distancing themselves for the first time from the UK company, the Financial Times has learnt. Executives from ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron and ConocoPhillips will say that by following current [...]

Environmental groups have attacked a national press campaign by Shell as ” ill-timed and “at best cynical and at worse downright dishonest”. Shell, the oil company, today (May 28) launched a series of full-page national ads in today’s Times, Guardian, Independent and Telegraph. The advert reads: “Let’s deliver energy for a changing world,” [...]

The Niger Delta is one of the world’s 10 most important wetland and coastal marine ecosystems and is home to about 31 million people. Its huge oil deposits have been extracted for years by the Nigerian govenment and multinational oil companies such as Royal Dutch Shell. It is estimated that  oil has generated an estimated [...]

Salve d’applaudissements au Klimaforum, l’espace alternatif du sommet de Copenhague, ce 15 décembre : la multinationale états-unienne Monsanto, spécialisée dans les pesticides et les OGM, se voit remettre le prix du pire lobbying climatique à Copenhague, prix poétiquement dénommé la Sirène en colère. Huit candidats avaient été retenus par les organisateurs, des ONG environnementales. La [...]

La compagnie pétrolière néerlandaise est poursuivie pour des fuites présumées sur ses oléoducs par des paysans nigérians et une association écologiste. Le géant pétrolier anglo-néerlandais Shell et sa filiale nigériane ont comparu jeudi devant un tribunal civil de La Haye, assignés par des paysans nigérians et une association écologiste qui dénoncent la pollution causée par [...]