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Part of Shell's no-reactor strategy relies on its 'call in the authorities/we are behaving responsibly' line. This raises the question of why Shell has not contacted the authorities itself. The first time the Group's legal head, Richard Wiseman, presented this line to me was orally. I immediately responded, 'You (Shell) are the criminals; you call them in.' Shell declined. Nevertheless, once Shell identifies a position it believes I find unacceptable, it repeatedly insists I accept this 'unacceptable' stance as part of its strategy. My letter of 7 September 2000 to Shell's solicitor illustrates this point:
'Seven
years after Shell’s fraudulent
Narrative (cover-up) resulted in the ‘cancellation’ of a current affairs
television programme that would have exposed Shell nuclear dumping crimes, along
with it’s illegal surveillance, it’s campaign of personal abuse and
vilification against myself, etc., etc., Shell now ‘suggests’ that I deal
with the issue by informing the 'Health & Safety Executive'.
Well, frankly it is akin to, say, complaining about Shell’s behavior
in Nigeria, to the local trading standards officer!
Despite this, I again repeat my offer of the 15 August last: ‘I
will undertake to do this (call in the Health & Safety Executive) if
you will now, give an unreserved undertaking on behalf of
the Shell Group, as its Legal Head, that the Shell Group of Company’s will
make all of the relevant records freely available, and that the relevant
authorities will have free and unhindered access to any document or record or
Company and or individuals, without reserve! Furthermore, you will hand over
your files, as I undertake, as an act of goodwill.’
After I agreed to
Shell's request to involve the Health & Safety body, Shell's legal head
immediately faxed Shell’s rejection. Although the Health & Safety body is
not equipped to investigate serious crimes, I still offered to cooperate and
provide my files and evidence to the authorities Shell selected. All my offers
were refused. Despite this, Shell continues to promote the 'call in the Health
& Safety' PT (bull shit) line. Thornton’s MD, Graeme Sweeney, was
instructed to tell Thornton’s staff that I have refused to involve Health &
Safety, which is a straight lie. I have (repeatedly) written to Shell's
lawyers written to Shell's
lawyers written to Shell's
lawyers written to Shell's
lawyers requesting that this lie be corrected; Shell and its lawyers
simply refuse to respond. |