May 17 2011 - During the Shell annual general assembly (AGM) in The Hague, today, Milieudefensie and Friends of the Earth International presented an "erratum" [1] to Shell's 2010 annual report. In this spoof "erratum", which was distributed among shareholders, Shell 'admits that it is "causing a lot of unwanted and unnecessary damage" in its global oil-gas- and biofuels operations. It also states that Shell "has learnt from these mistakes" and pledges to take "full responsibility to prevent and mitigate costs for the environment and people affected by our operations".
Friends of the Earth Netherlands (Milieudefensie) is a non-governmental (NGO) environmental organisation with more than 90.000 members and supporters and eighty local groups, conducting campaigns globalisation, traffic and agriculture. A small part of our website has been translated into English.
The exploitation of oil by Shell in Nigeria is a disaster for the environment and people in the Niger Delta. Subsistence farming and fishing are the mainstay of the people. inhabited by more than 3,000 long-settled communities, the present population figure of the Niger Delta is estimated to be 7 million.
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