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Shell: Stop Gas Flaring Now!
On May 26, oil giant Shell will face a groundbreaking trial in U.S. federal court for complicity in human rights abuses. Shell faces a number of serious charges, including conspiring with a Nigerian military dictatorship to bring about the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight fellow activists who led a mass movement against Shell's environmental devastation of their homeland in the oil-rich Niger Delta.One of the abuses these activists died struggling to end was "gas flaring"—burning off gas released by oil extraction—which sends plumes of toxic smoke into the air.
Gas flaring endangers human health, harms local ecosystems, emits large amounts of greenhouse gases, wastes vast quantities of natural gas, and is against Nigerian law.Shell's CEO, Jeroen van der Veer, will retire this summer. He has the opportunity to choose the legacy he'll leave behind—one of environmental devastation and broken promises, or one of leadership and progress in this case by ending Shell's gas flaring. With the trial looming, we have a powerful opportunity to help Van der Veer make the right choice.
On May 26, oil giant Shell will face a groundbreaking trial in U.S. federal court for complicity in human rights abuses. Shell faces a number of serious charges, including conspiring with a Nigerian military dictatorship to bring about the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight fellow activists who led a mass movement against Shell's environmental devastation of their homeland in the oil-rich Niger Delta.One of the abuses these activists died struggling to end was "gas flaring"—burning off gas released by oil extraction—which sends plumes of toxic smoke into the air.
Gas flaring endangers human health, harms local ecosystems, emits large amounts of greenhouse gases, wastes vast quantities of natural gas, and is against Nigerian law.Shell's CEO, Jeroen van der Veer, will retire this summer. He has the opportunity to choose the legacy he'll leave behind—one of environmental devastation and broken promises, or one of leadership and progress in this case by ending Shell's gas flaring. With the trial looming, we have a powerful opportunity to help Van der Veer make the right choice.
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