CLIMERICK: How Dare The Devilish Shell?

How Dare The Devilish Shell

How dare the devilish Shell

sue Greenpeace, when Shell create hell

in oil-bearing places

kicking over the traces

of land laws where ethnic folk dwell.

 

Shell intend to sue Greenpeace for £1.7m damages they claim were perpretated by Greenpeace supporters boarding a ship transporting a platform to Shetland. (Source BBC Climate News 9^th Novr 23). 

• At the Alto Rio Guamá Indigenous Territory in the state of Pará, Indigenous people allege that the carbon credit-generating company pressed communities to sign blank sheets of paper; Funai’s legal office received an offer of 50 million reais ($10.1 million) in advance for the signatures of Kayapó communities. (Source Mongabay 14.11.23)
• Royal Dutch Shell, plc (Shell) began oil production in the
  Niger Delta region of Nigeria in 1958 and has a long
  history of working closely with the Nigerian government to
  quell popular opposition to its presence in the region. At the
  request of Shell, and with Shell’s assistance and financing,
  Nigerian soldiers used deadly force and massive, brutal
  raids against the Ogoni people throughout the early 1990s
  to repress a growing movement against the oil company.
  The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), EarthRights
  International (ERI) and other human rights attorneys sued
  Shell for human rights violations against the Ogoni. After
  thirteen years of litigation, the case against Shell ended in a
  historic $15.5 million settlement for the plaintiffs.

·       In a court decision reached late last year, Indigenous communities from the Wild Coast of South Africa’s Eastern Cape have attained a landmark legal victory against energy and petroleum giant Shell. To win their case, lawyers representing the Umgungundlovu, Dwesa-Cwebe, and Port Saint Johns Indigenous communities, among others, argued that because Shell failed to consult meaningfully with local communities, the company’s efforts to explore shale gas off the country’s eastern coast ignored a crucial aspect of local custom. The victory has been hailed as a major breakthrough in the effort to stem the tide of climate change. But it is also a potent example of how Wild Coast communities are using the courts to fight for the right to determine what happens in their territory and strengthening their hand in a country heavily marred by colonialism.

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