Archives: Incidents
| Date | Company | Accusation | City / Area / Country | Source | Tags | Media |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31/12/1995 - 01/01/1995 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Released documents show Shell paid Nigerian military to stop protest movements over its pollution. Protests were violently suppressed, with reported life losses. | Ogoni, Rivers, Nigeria | The Guardian | Beatings & Violence, Deaths, Killings | |
| 07/02/2012 | (The co-operative) (Waitrose) (Marks & Spencer) | Seemingly ethical companies accused of double standards over their partnerships with oil companies like BP, Shell and Chevron. | The Ecologist | Consumer Deception | ||
| 23/04/2012 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Amnesty International exposes Shell's inaccurate reporting of massive 72-day Niger Delta oil spill. | Niger Delta | Amnesty International, CEHRD | Fraud, Pollution | |
| 20/12/2011 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Shell faces fine over estimated 40,000 barrel oil spill polluting 950 square km of water surface-$5 billion. | Bonga, Nigeria | Reuters, RT | Pollution | |
| 15/08/2012 | (Apache Corporation) (Shell (Royal Dutch Shell)) (Chesapeake Energy) (Exxon Mobil) (ConocoPhillips) (Marathon Oil Corporation) | Energy Companies failure to disclose wells obscures fracking environmental hazards. | United States | Bloomberg | Pollution | |
| 29/06/2005 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Shell ordered by Dutch Court to pay damages for oil spillages in farmlands and fishponds. | Oruma, Nigeria | Business & Human Rights Resource Center | Pollution | |
| 27/02/2013 | (Shell (Royal Dutch Shell)) (BP (Beyond Petroleum)) (Tullow Oil) (Heritage Oil) | Oil companies accused of receiving tax breaks, subsidized loans, and external political and military support by the UK government. | United Kingdom | Platform | Lobbying, Tax Avoidance | |
| 05/03/2013 - 31/03/2010 | Cadbury (Part Of Mondelez International) | Candbury used phantom factory to avoid taxes about 46$ million, according to Indian tax authorities. | India | The Wall Street Journal | Tax Avoidance | |
| 01/07/2014 | (Anheuser-Busch InBev) (Shell (Royal Dutch Shell)) (Daimler) (Danone) (Dow Chemical) (Odfjell) (Petrobras) (Quilmes) (Solvay) | Residents of Villa Inflamble filed a lawsuit against the 'Argentinian Government, Government of the city of Buenos Aires, and 44 businesses for damages to their health suffered as a result of the pollution of Matanza-Riachuelo River.' | Buenos Aires, Argentina | Business & Human Rights Resource Center | Injuries & Diseases, Pollution | |
| 15/05/2008 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Shell faces lawsuit from fishermen and farmers in the Niger Delta of Nigeria after contamination to fishponds and farmlands by oil spills. | Niger Delta, Rivers, Nigeria | ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS ACTION | Pollution |