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| 6:35 pm | SHELL's OIL CRIMES - BUTCHER OF THE EARTH ` PART 1. POISONS STILL WITH US Chemicals old & new: the "Drins," DBCP, leaded gasoline, and MTBE. In 1975, at a time when dieldrin and aldrin were being banned in the US, Shell Chemical was building a plant in Brazil to produce them. For a decade or more, beginning in 1977, Shell produced aldrin, dieldrin, endrin and other pesticides at this plant, located near Paulinia, Brazil, about 75 miles (126 kms) northwest of Sao Paulo. During that time, there were spills and mishandlings of the chemicals at the plant, at least three incidents of which were cited by government officials. In 1985, the sale of the drins was prohibited for most uses in Brazil, but apparently their production for export continued at the Shell plant until 1990. Three years later, Shell began the process of selling its Paulinia chemical plant to American Cyanamid and BASF. As part of the sales agreement that followed, Shell acknowledged there was contamination of the factory grounds, for which it took legal responsibility. Offsite contamination, however, was another matter. Studies of the area later revealed that contamination had moved into the surrounding area, and could reach the nearby Atibaia River, one of the most important tributaries of the Piracicaba River, which provides water to half a million people. Levels of dieldrin contamination at some offsite locations were recorded at 12 times the maximum limits set by Brazilian federal law. However, no decontamination work had begun in the area. In February 2001, Shell admitted it had contaminated the groundwater and sections of the nearby community, and was ordered by the Sao Paulo State Environmental Protection Agency (CETESB) to begin a clean up. Shell began providing clean drinking water to local residents and also began buying up vegetables produced at local farms that previously were sold in Sao Paulo for many years. The Paulinia City Hall, meanwhile, produced a report by August 2001 showing that 156 of the 181 residents examined had some degree of contamination from metals or pesticides which could result in various cancers, liver disorders, or neurological problems. That prompted the Public Ministry of the state of Sao Paulo in November 2001 to accuse Shell of negligence in exposing the people of Paulinia to pesticide residues, as well as possibly others at Vila Carioca where Shell also produced pesticides between 1950 and 1978. Shell dismissed the Paulinia report, saying it used very low thresholds to measure contamination compared with those recommended by the World Health Organization. Shell also claimed its own tests showed no human contamination. "If there is proof of contamination with the products that we handled there, we will assume the responsibility immediately, which is our policy worldwide," said Jose Cardoso, a Shell manager in Brazil. "But so far, there is no data indicating that." Local residents, however, were calling for compensation and relocation. Sao Paulo officials, meanwhile, began looking at Shell’s operations a bit more closely. In May 2002, they ordered the shut down of Shell’s 11million liter fuel storage and distribution terminal, located in Vila Carioca. Sao Paulo charged that Shell lacked the proper license to operate the terminal, and had in fact been using a license that expired in 1985. Shell attributed that to a "misinterpretation of terms" by its local unit, and had a court order overturn the shutdown within hours. Shell also charged the shutdown was an over reaction to the pesticide situation. A month later, Brazil’s environmental agency, CETESB, found unacceptably high levels of dieldrin in wells near the Vila Carioca, and fined Shell $38,963 (105,200 reals) for its Grave Fault of pollution at the site. As this book goes to press, there are continuing deliberations over the Shell contamination at both Paulinia and Vila Carioca, as well as potential claims and lawsuits being drafted by local residents in those areas. The drin legacy in Brazil, however, is only part of Shell’s pesticide history. PART 2. DANGEROUS PLACES Shell refineries, terminals, and chemical plants are not always safe places The Pandacan Petrochemical Depots: a 30 hectare oil and petrochemical tank farm and loading complex run by a group of oil companies including Shell, is located in a highly populated section of Manila. On any given day, the depot contains about 330 million liters of volatile substances in storage: gasoline, aviation fuel, crude oil, bunker oil, diesel, LPG, and other substances. Yet, within a two kilometer radius of the complex, there are more than 83,000 residents, as well as the Philippine Presidential Palace. Schools, churches, daycare centers, restaurants, and other small businesses also fall within this two kilometer radius. The Carlos P. Garcia High School, for example, is directly across the street from the Shell portion of the complex. Shell trucks hauling flammable materials move regularly to and from the facility near this school. Caltex, Petron, and other companies at the complex also have facilities near schools and homes. Over the years, there have been leaks and pollution from the complex, and occasionally fires. Maria Wilma Barrias, a neighbor of the Pandacan complex, recalls a fire at the Shell facility: ". . . You know, when there was a fire here, the employees of Shell were locked up inside. They didn’t let them out. The first place they fought the fire was inside instead of outside. They locked the doors. I know because my husband was working there. Putting out the fire at the depot was given priority before extinguishing it at the residences." Shell reports that there have been fires at their depot. A February 1987 fire occurred there after a loading hose disconnected from a truck at the LPG bulk filling station, resulting in property damage and lost work days. In October1997, there was a flash fire in one of Shell’s loading bays at the main fuel terminal, caused by a faulty grounding system. Pilipinas Shell says no reports of incidents can be found earlier than 1996. "There are informal stories about one of the LPG sphere vents being struck by lightning in 1991 or 1992, and the escaping gas catching fire," says Shell. "The community was reportedly alarmed, but the fire was extinguished without any loss to property or lives, and no recorded or remembered community action." Still, many of the residents of Pandacan want the oil companies to honor a 1993 agreement they made with the Philippine government to move the depot to a new location by 2003. However, as the deadline for relocating the facility has approached, the companies have been stalling for time, calling for further study, or even reconsidering the move entirely. Shell, for example, says it may have to do a risk study on the move and questions whether, we really need to transfer or just improve our facilities. Jocelyn Dawis, Asuncion, a Manilla City Councilor, points out that relocation studies were done in 1993, and further study now that would take another 6 to 18 months is simply a delaying tactic. Safety is our Concern, says Shell in big letters on a billboard along the perimeter of the Pandacan complex - Because We Care. Yet many of the residents living in this part of Manilla have expressed their doubts about that claim. On land, the Royal Dutch Shell group of companies operates refineries, chemical plants, storage terminals, gas processing plants, supply and product pipelines at hundreds of locations worldwide. Add to these hundreds of offshore oil and gas platforms and miles of underwater pipelines. At the retail and neighborhood level are the company’s 45,000 gas stations, distribution terminals, and countless delivery vehicles that travel through highly populated towns and cities on a daily basis. All of these facilities and transport systems deal with dangerous, volatile, and often hazardous materials. The cases presented here, while certainly not a complete measure of Shell’s entire global system, nonetheless indicate that Shell’s facilities are not as safe and well managed as they could be. Workers, communities, and the environment are too frequently at risk. The board of directors and management at Royal Dutch Shell, and its affiliate companies and contractors, have not done enough to incorporate fail safe measures, ongoing preventative maintenance, and the absolute latest technology to assure safe operations at all of their production, refining, and storage facilities worldwide. Given the level of scrutiny now being undertaken of corporate managements worldwide, and the growing frequency of shareholder and class action lawsuits to hold management and corporate leaders accountable for either avoidable liabilities and/ or preventable social transgressions, money spent on targeted investment to insure clean and safe operations is certainly well advised. Clearly, "ounces of preventable actions" taken now will trump, Billions In Court Ordered Payoffs as cure, not to mention bad PR. And simply as a matter of good business practice, and lowering the firm’s liability exposure and its insurance rates, Shell should want to be in the vanguard of technological improvement that puts safety on a par with production. PART 3. CHRONIC POLLUTION TOXIC DRILLING FLUIDS From well head to the corner gas station, the Shell system is releasing toxic chemicals. Royal Dutch Shell, like every other oil company, uses tons and tons of additive and auxiliary substances to enable oil and gas drilling, drilling muds and drilling fluids among them. Some of this material can be very toxic, especially when mixed with oil and gas, or with the "production waters" that come to the surface during drilling. Some of the chemicals used can also be changed chemically during drilling due to heat, pressure, and/or interaction with other compounds. For years, much drilling waste was simply discarded in the environment, left in pits or evaporation ponds at land based operations, and discharged to the sea at offshore operations. Little of this waste, known as exploration and production waste, or "E & P" waste, is regulated, even in the US. Globally, the annual oil industry discharge of E&P wastes is about three million tons. As a leading player in the E&P business, Shell’s share of this discharge is considerable. True, some changes have begun to occur with offshore drill cuttings, now brought to shore for proper disposal. Still, with drilling fluids, there is a remaining and significant environmental problem. For the last 75 years or so, Shell has been using some fairly standard, and toxic substances to enable its drilling. Chief among these are barite and synthetic drilling oils. Barite, in reaction with other substances, and due to changes during drilling, becomes barium, a toxic substance. Barite, however, is no small business. Sold by Halliburton and other oil service companies, it is a $500 million annual global market. But barite isn’t the only substance that can do the job. In fact, there are some neglected existing alternatives available that are environmentally safer, more productive, and cheaper to use. Tell Shell - He Did I note that Shell operations created around 450,000 tones of hazardous waste in 2001, and most of this waste was drilling fluids and cuttings contaminated with oil and toxic heavy metals. When I was with Shell Research in The Netherlands I helped develop a novel ecological drilling fluid system based on formate brines. Shell rarely uses this exciting technology, but these benign and biodegradable formate brines have been widely used by other oil companies throughout the world over the past 8 years, and they have been particularly useful in reducing the amount of hazardous wastes created by drilling operations. Agip’s use of formate based drilling fluids in the environmentally sensitive Barents Sea is a fine example of how formates are being used to great effect by a responsible oil company to minimize the environmental impact of its drilling operations. Fortuitously, the use of formate brines as drilling fluids also appears to result in spectacular increases in oil and gas production, so there is a clear financial reward to be gained from using these ecological fluids. Given Shell’s commitment to "finding new ways to reduce the environmental impact of its operations", why are Shell operations not using their own formate brine technology to reduce the volume of their hazardous waste production? Yours sincerely, John Downs 25 July 2002 2nd Letter, different Shell forum, same day Every year the oil industry uses some 3 million tonnes of a toxic heavy metal (barium) in its well drilling fluids. Shell researchers showed as long ago as 1960 that common components of drilling fluids can solubilise the barium, creating a hazardous waste. Much of this hazardous drilling waste containing solubilised heavy metal ends up being discharged into our environment. Despite having developed an ecological drilling fluid technology to replace barium, and professing a desire to reduce the environmental impact of its operations, Shell is still a major user of barium in its drilling operations worldwide. I would like to open up a debate about whether Shell is ethically or morally justified in continuing to use large volumes of barium in its drilling fluids when it has a cost effective and ecological alternative technology, in the shape of its patented formate brine system, readily available but largely unused by the Shell drilling community. Yours sincerely, John Downs (As of late August 2002, Mr. Downs had not received a reply from Shell to either letter). Nearly 15 years ago, in fact, in 1987, two enterprising Shell scientists working at The Hague came up with better and safer drilling fluids. They discovered that sodium formate brine and potassium formate brine could serve as very effective drilling fluids. This was a significant discovery, and Shell patented their work product. But it wasn’t until 1993 that Shell first tested a sodium formate brine at its Draugen field in offshore Norway. Shell did little with its new invention from that point on, as most of the scientists who developed the new fluids left Shell. John Downs, one of those former Shell employees who developed and advocated the formate brines, became involved at a company named Cabot to develop the languishing fluids. Downs then licensed the technology from Shell, and began selling the formate brine technology to Shell’s competitors including BP, ExxonMobil, TotalFina, and others. Shell, however, was still not using its own invention. Instead, it continued to use what some have called "stone age" drilling fluid technologies known as the Di-Pro and Brine-Drill systems. All of this prompted Downs, frustrated with Shell’s history of nonuse of its own better and safer product, to avail himself to the Tell Shell web page to make his story public. In late July 2002, Down’s wrote two letters, in different forums, to the Tell Shell web page. To date, Mr. Downs has yet to receive a reply from Shell. Part of the reason, he speculates, is that Shell has no one competent enough to reply, as all the scientists and technical staff that once worked on the formate brine project have left, with Shell now relying on contractor services to deal with things like drilling fluid. What Down’s has received, however, are queries from within the Shell empire from engineers and project managers wanting to know more about Shell’s own drilling fluids. Meanwhile, Shell’s competitors are reaping the benefits of safer and more productive drilling fluids. Agip, the Italianoil company, has successfully drilled exploration wells in the environmentally sensitive Barents Sea with the new fluids, which cost Agip half the price of the synthetics. Shell, however, continues to use its 75 year old drilling fluids, professing to the public that it is working hard for a Sustainable Future, but actually doing little in the present, at least in drilling fluids, to change its polluting practices. In the Gulf of Mexico, for example, where Shell is a major player with hundreds of rigs, barium pollution is occurring daily. But only a few hundred miles away from most of these Shell rigs are the large scale formate brine production plants of Texas, which now classify their formate side streams as waste, shipped out for disposal. Royal Dutch Shell may be projecting a good image with its "sustainable development" rhetoric, magazine ads, and CEO speeches. Yet when it comes to the actual execution on these promises, and making obvious improvement on practices right under their noses like drilling fluids, there appears to be a big gap between talk and action. If Shell can let a proven, better technology like the formate brine drilling fluids languish for nearly 15 years, what else hasn’t it brought forward? PART 4. SHELL AT SEA: MASSIVE OIL SPILL The Brent Spar flap and Shell in the water. On August 3rd, 1999, the Italian owned tanker, Laura D’Amato (96,000 dwt) spilled 300,000 liters of crude into Australia’s Sydney Harbor at Gore Bay. The spill occurred after the tanker docked at Shell Oil’s Gore Cove terminal at the Clyde Refinery in New South Wales. Sea valves inside the tanker were opened when it docked at Gore Bay. The winds off the harbor soon spread acrid fumes from the spill across residential areas, prompting thousands of telephone calls to emergency services. The spill soon became major news, featured in local newspapers and evening television news shows. The Big Spill, Stain on the Harbor, was the August 4th headline on the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney Harbor, the pride of Australia, had been fouled. Fortunately, the winds kept the spill contained for the most part in Gore Bay. Still, light crude was found along a 10 kilometer stretch of harbor shoreline and hundreds of birds were poisoned. A massive response attended the spill, with more that 300 people and numerous agencies involved. The clean up effort, which lasted for about three weeks, continued through the end of August. But shortly following the spill, on August 4 th, Shell Australia manager, Gary Smith, was quoted in the paper offering an apology to the local community. "We sincerely apologize to residents for the inconvenience they are experiencing from odors associated with the oil." And that evening, on ABC TV local news, correspondent Kerry O’Brien did a short interview with Shell manager, Doug Hyde: O’Brien: . . . But do you know the extent to which Shell satisfies itself that the crew of the tanker unloading at your terminals are competent to do so? Hyde: . . . If that is a shortfall in any of our processes, Kerry, that will come out in our own internal investigation and in the other investigations that will go on. O’Brien: . . . Which you will share with us in the end we hope? Hyde: We will. The debate over responsibility for the spill began almost from the first day of the spill. Jim Starkey, head of the Australian Institute of Petroleum, said the spill might have been prevented if the Ship/Shore Safety Check List had been followed properly 22, a procedure jointly shared by both terminal operator and ship captain. While the ship’s captain was later fined in the incident, and not Shell, some critics, among them, Friends of the Earth Australia, believed Shell’s harbor master was also responsible, citing a failure on Shell’s part to effectively implement the joint Ship/Shore Safety Checklist and ensure safe operating procedures. Friends of the Earth also charged that Shell’s responsibility and liability extended to the competency of the chartered ship’s crew and safe operations at their terminal. At least one official, Peter Morris, Chair of the International Commissions on Shipping, and involved with a 1992 Australian inquiry into shipping and terminal operations, had also stated that oil terminal owners "have a responsibility to ensure that the vessel they hire does meet all the required international safety standards, and is operated in a safe manner." The Laura D’Amato spill, however, wasn’t the first incident at the Gore Cove terminal. In mid July 1993, about ten tons of crude oil spilled into Sydney Harbor during a routine transfer between storage tanks at the terminal. A long slick on the harbor followed. After months of investigation, Shell was found guilty and fined $42,000, ordered to pay $7,682 in costs, and required to spend $160,000 on clean up. In 1984, about 40 tons of crude oil spilled into the harbor at Gore Cove after a Shell barge with a tank capacity of 1,217 tons had been overfilled with 1,900 tons of oil. In that case, Shell was found to be negligent and was fined $25,000. Two years after the Laura D’Amato spill, in hearings on the incident before a New South Wales parliamentary committee, Shell’s Clyde refinery manager Gary Smith, although pointing to improvements in spill response and detection, said he could not guarantee that spills would not occur in the harbor again. "Shell was deeply concerned by the oil spill which occurred in Gore Bay," Smith told the hearing. "We have fully investigated the incident and whilst the investigation team did not find deficiencies in the action of Shell staff or Shell procedures, a number of recommendations were made. . .Unfortunately, I can’t give guarantees." Spying for Shell James Bond he wasn’t, but Manfred Schlickenrieder had the perfect cover for spying on environmental groups – a television camera, hair over the collar, and seemingly good leftist credentials. "Manfred filmed and interviewed all the time," recalled Fouad Hamden, communications director of Greenpeace who later learned that Greenpeace had been had, as they say, by the paid infiltrator. "The bastard was good, I have to admit." In 1996, Schlickenrieder began spying on green groups and their associates for the British oil industry through the high powered London based firm of Hakluyt & Company, Ltd. Hakluyt was founded in 1995 by former British intelligence agents, with board, management, and affiliated Hakluyt Foundation members from both Shell and British Petroleum. Sir William Purves, former CEO of Shell Transport, served as Hakluyt chairman. Sir Peter Holmes, former Shell chairman, is the current president of the Hakluyt Foundation, which works as a kind of supervisory board. Hakluyt prides itself on its ability to get good current, on the ground intelligence for its industrial clients. Shell hired Hakluyt in April 1996 in the wake of Greenpeace’s Brent Spar protest and the subsequent threats and attacks on Shell’s European gas stations. When the story first broke in June of 2001 in London’s Sunday Times, Shell confirmed it had been Hakluyt’s client through December 1996. "We did talk to Hakluyt about what intelligence they could gather," explained Mike Hogan, director of media relations at Shell UK. Schlickenrieder’s assignments on behalf of Shell also included the company’s troubles in Nigeria. He even produced a documentary on Nigeria, entitled, Business As Usual: The Arrogance of Power, about the environmental and human rights campaign mounted against Shell. By 1997, however, the action and Schlickenrieder’s services, had shifted to BP and that company’s drilling in the North Atlantic. Sources: Maurice Chittenden and Nicholas Rufford, "UK: MI6 ‘Firm’ Spied on Green Groups," The Sunday Times (London), June 17, 2001, and, Eveline Lubber, Big Brother Incorporated, PR Watch, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2002. PART 5. NIGERIA: BRUTAL EXECUTIONS, and a POLLUTED COUNTRY We depend on fishing and farming, and to take that away from us, it’s genocide. If you take away our land, and then you pollute the water and so on, it’s just saying we don’t have any right to live. The Niger River Delta, on the southwestern coast of Nigeria in western Africa, is a vital and life sustaining natural resource. Sprawling over a 70,000 square kilometer region five degrees north of the Equator, it not only drains the Niger and Benue rivers, but also embraces the largest wetland in Africa and one of the continent’s largest stands of coastal mangrove forest. Its web of streams, freshwater swamps, and coastal barrier islands make it one of the richest biological areas in the world. Its fertile soils have supported the cultivation of rice, sugar cane, cassava, palm oil, yams and beans for decades. Thanks in part to its rich mangrove breeding grounds, it has more freshwater fish species that any other coastal system in West Africa. But the Niger Delta is rich in something else too, Oil. For beneath the surface, within what are termed "relatively simple geological structures" are estimated proven oil reserves of 22.5 billion barrels. Although the majority of the oil deposits found in the Delta are considered small, each with 50 million barrels or less, at least 250 of them have been identified and opened, with another 200 yet to be measured. And the Niger Delta’s crude is good crude, the kind oilmen love, with a low sulfur content and a light, flowable viscosity. But that’s not all. Nigeria also has natural gas. With proven reserves estimated at 124 trillion cubic feet, it is the world’s ninth largest source. But it is the oil that has created the most promise and the most peril. Royal Dutch Shell has been involved in Nigeria longer than any other major oil company. Its roots go back to the country’s time as a British colony, and to 1937 when the Colonial Mineral Ordinance gave Shell D’Arcy exclusive exploration and prospecting rights. 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DVD: Who Killed the Electric Car? http://www.amazon.com/Who-Killed-Electr http://vegcar.livejournal.com/24209.htm book: Internal Combustion; by Edwin Black http://www.internalcombustionbook.c WHY DID GENERAL MOTORS DESTROY ELECTRIC CARS http://www.saveev1.org http://www.dontcrush.com NAZIS in the AMERICAN MILITARY Defense Fund for Freedom from the Extremist - please donate. Keep the Nuts away from the Nukes - Book of Revelation. George Bush and the End of the World Death Cult society of america - KKK http://bigoil600036.insanejournal.c http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.o CRIMES AGAINST NATURE DICK CHENEY Made Millions with SADDAM HUSSEIN Enemies of Democracy http://bigoil431.insanejournal.com SHOCKING CORRUPTION by BIG OIL http://bigoil101.insanejournal.com DO WE HAVE TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION? Are your politicians taking Bribes - campaign contributions - from Big Oil and the Drug Companies? Is your Congressman a Drug Pusher for the Pharmaceutical Companies? Halt the incestuous relationship of sleazy politicians in bed with Big Oil. CAMPAIGN FINANCE INFORMATION CENTER Where does the money come from? http://www.campaignfinance.org/stat CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY stop the Fat Cats from BRIBING your politicians http://www.publicintegrity.org DVD: Capitol Crimes by Bill Moyers The fall of super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff has exposed what may be one of the biggest political scandals in America's history. What does the dizzying scope of corruption say about how laws are made and who really owns the U.S. government? 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