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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13My heart goes out to all those that lost love ones to shells regime. All because they wanted to live peacefully and environmental safe for their families. $hell would have kept them in court for decades or even more. Maybe they can use the $$$$ for some good , flying in here 20-30,000 people to stop our own nightmare happening, before its to late. Remember that $hell make over 54 million a day in profit, so the money is nothing to shell. How many more people will be hurt or arrested or killed...
because shell want our gas at any cost ; how much = jail us , hurt us , tie us up in court , and when there's an pipeline rupture an explosion , that will incinerate us 30 seconds ,. Who the fuck is charge of this nightmare an its threat that will bring such devastation. will our children take shell to court when an accident destroys the area with pollution then death. like I said at any cost..fuck shell
This may be of some good to the relatives, but it is very bad news for the rest of the world especially Rossport .
SHELL IS NOW LICENCED TO KILL.
The facist merceneries will be able to murder with impunity and shell will pay a few million pocket money in compensation.
Our gardai can stand by and let it happen and plead ( they had to do it the IRA were involved.
On the qeustion of an accident happening 3 million is all the state can claim.
IRELAND IS A JOKE BUT IT IS NOT FUNNY.
Shell, the Green Party's friends, the one's the Green Party wants to protect and defend, the one's the Green Party wants to give our gas away to, to let them extract it with an experimental new pipeline ...
Shell, the Green Party's friends, the one's who nearly murdered Willy Corduff with their fascist thugs in the dead of night ...
Shell, the Green Party's friends, have had to pay out for their murdered Nigerian, and by god we made the Green Party pay too!
Feck the shleveen Greens and their friends in Shell.
Shell we know who they are. The Greens? We made the mistake in years gone by of assuming they were environmentalist, anti-war, social-justice and fair. It was a stereotype and we got it wrong. Turns out after two years in government, the Green Party were none of those things.
Aren't the Green Party lucky now that their friends, Shell's fascist thugs, that attacked Willy Corduff, aren't the Greens lucky now they didn't kill him. They mightn't even have got them three local council seats! And not one a them shleveen Greens stood up and demanded they truth about Willy's battering, not one of them came out and condemned Shell's fascist thugs.
Well goodbye our Green shleveen erstwhile friends, may your corpse produce some good quality organic manure for some environmentalist, anti-war, social-justice and fair type political party in the future.
Some quick math:
this punishment of Shell Oil equals
1/282th of last years profit
in 2008 Shell Oil made $13,150,684/day
using numbers from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7857532.stm
Even when you play the game, they delay and delay to wear you out and bankrupt you in legal costs, then if you persevere and actually beat them, they just do a calculation and fob you off with a pittance and carry on with business as usual. The framework and structure of the legal system favours corporations How can little people ever really win against corporate greed?
RIP Ken. What would you think of this I wonder? How much more than 15 million would it take to clean up the ecological disaster that is the niger delta?
We need new strongly enforced global corporate limits. but catch 22 - we will never be able to implement such policies against global corporate lobbying.
According to the Washington Post (link below) the payout amounts to "less than one-hundredth of a percent of Shell’s annual revenue. It’s comparable to the annual cost of renting one of the supertankers that Shell uses to deliver Nigerian oil to other countries".
It's easy for us to be on our moral high horses about the Wiwa family's compromise but it seems a terrible mistake. It means we (and indeed Nigerians) can never call Shell 'guilty' and be believed by anyone outside of the protest movement.
The New York Times considered it a striking sum given that the company has denied any wrongdoing.
The BBC note that Ken Wiwa, 40, son of Ken Saro-Wiwa, said his father would have been happy with the result..He told the Associated Press that Shell's settlement represented a "victory for us".
Remember this settlement comes after a 13 year legal battle and means many details of Shell's activities are now in the Public Domain thanks to depositions lodged with the court.
Its small money to Shell but some comfort to the afflicted and an encouragement for others to take a stand.
Has any of this gone out on the rag bag of corporate and state media that passes for news carriers here in our little Shell of a banana republic ?
Better not hold one's breath.
In fairness it is now up on the RTE website. Im out of Ireland this week so I cant vouch for whats on the airwaves.
A reasonable article which naturally incudes Shell denying responsibility but does quote Ogoni Spokesperson and mentions the enviromental case being taken
Ken Wiwa and attorney Judith Brown Chomsky on the settlement.
On their own, the Ogoni families could never have taken a case to Court. Today we are told that it cost the Omagh families 2 million pounds sterling to mount their civil case. Brings home how inaccessible the Courts are to people. This is a grave injustice in society where for the most part one has to have 100, 000 euro in hand to even start the smallest action as the people of Erris have discovered too even as a solution trotted out by Minister O'Cuiv who suggests the legal route. The Ogoni families could not start proceedings in the US or Nigeria withour the assistance of big legal NGOs whose advice they have to rely on. For the Ogonis this case has been bound by severe circumstances and it has been a very painful time for them. Thanks to so many people in Ireland who are now sharing that pain of complexity. Ken Saro-Wiwa has a book of short stories called A Forest of Flowers - every story deals with the issue of poverty such as seeking a dowry for a daughter who is only ten so that some bit of the essential family survives.
Spread the word on $Hell's wrongdoing, for the sake of Erris' land & people, Ogoniland, & the rest of the world that these companies see as a site to be plundered.
Surely in the light of all that has happened in Nigeria and to the Ogoni people our Government must guarantee that the close co-operation between SHELL/IRMS security and AN GARDA SICHANNA should cease forthwith.IRMS SECURITY workers went to BOLIVIA one of them was shot dead.Were they working for SHELL /IRMS AT THAT TIME?
Will the IRISH NAVY be used to protect SHELL?
Will the IRISH ARMY be used too against the IRISH PEOPLE?
Who will protect the ERRIS people in their RIGHTEOUS struggle for JUSTICE and HUMAN RIGHTS?
Will the MINISTER for JUSTICE fail to protect our people?
We must ensure that SHELL will never be allowed to destroy and plunder IRELAND
As they have done all over the world.