| Date | Company | Accusation | City / Area / Country | Source | Tags | Media |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29/07/2015 - 01/01/1990 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Leaked 330 page documents know as "Deception Dossiers" show that major oil companies were aware of climate change linked to their products for decades, and used deceptive tactics to reverse the information and block public policy. "These include forged letters to Congress, secret funding of a supposedly independent scientist, the creation of fake grassroots organizations, multiple efforts to deliberately manufacture uncertainty about climate science." | Union of Concerned Scientists | Climate Change, Fraud | ||
| 01/01/2014 - 31/10/2011 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | New documents reveal Shell lobbied to undermine EU renewables targets. | Europe | The Guardian | Climate Change, Lobbying | |
| 26/04/2010 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Shell establishes new gas flare facility generating up to 50 million tons of CO2 and quantities of far more damaging methane, polluting the atmosphere and soil with toxins, and seeding the clouds with acid rain. | Bayelsa, Nigeria | Independent | Climate Change, Injuries & Diseases | |
| 23/08/2009 | (Shell (Royal Dutch Shell)) | Cree aboriginals protest over tar sand project - destroying ancient boreal forest; spreading open-pit mining across local tribes' territories; contaminating their food and water with toxins; producing heavy CO2 emissions; disrupting local wildlife and threatening their way of life. | Alberta, Canada | The Guardian | Climate Change, Habitat Extinction, Pollution | |
| 31/08/2008 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | US government releases emails of Shell officials downplaying the significance of Russian environmental audit of Shakhalin II energy project by persuading the Atomic Energy Authority to disperse the findings through the report to receive vital bank funding. The project's environmental projection is dire; 1.6m tonnes of carbon dioxide; threat to endangered species and other wildlife. | The Guardian | Climate Change, Habitat Extinction, Lobbying, Pollution | ||
| 03/04/2008 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Shell still using gas flaring in the Niger Delta - strong greenhouse gas contributions, causing acid rain and ground water contamination. | Niger Delta, Nigeria | The Economist | Climate Change, Pollution | |
| 12/04/2006 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Court in Lagos orders Shell to stop gas flaring practices. | Nigeria | The Guardian | Climate Change, Pollution | |
| 24/12/2005 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Gas flaring continues, despite Nigerian Federal Court orders to halt. | Nigeria | BBC | Climate Change, Pollution | |
| 31/12/2002 - 01/01/2000 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Transparency pressures force Shell to reveal high greenhouse gas levels in Nigeria - 15.5m, 22.5m and 22m tonnes in 2002, 2001 and 2000 respectively. | Nigeria | The Guardian | Climate Change, Pollution |
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