This is the home of Shell News .net   THE WORLDS LARGEST COLLECTION OF NEWS REPORTS/REVELATIONS ABOUT ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC (OVER 34,000 ARTICLES & DOCUMENTS - OVER 7,200 HERE AND THE REST ON RoyalDutchShellplc.com)   ALTHOUGH THIS WEBSITE (OWNED BY 95 YEAR OLD DECORATED WAR VETERAN, ALFRED DONOVAN *LEFT IT IS NOT APPROVED OR ENDORSED BY SHELL, ROYAL DUTCH SHELL HAS STATED THAT IT HAS BEEN AWARE OF THE SITE FROM ITS INCEPTION AND HAS TAKEN THE VIEW THAT ALFRED DONOVAN IS ENTITLED TO EXPRESS HIS OPINIONS AND TO USE THE INTERNET AS A MEDIUM FOR DOING SO. FOR SHELL'S OWN WEBSITE VISIT: shell.com    (*The Wall Street Journal sketch of Alfred Donovan is reproduced in accordance with our "Fair Use Notice")   ShellNews.net: What "MyHosting" says about our Royal Dutch Shell plc dotcom website: Your site is very busy, very large: Posted Saturday 8 October 2005: 03.10am EDT READ OVERALL RESULTS SCORE THUS FAR IN SHELL/DONOVAN PROCEEDINGS: click here      WWW http://www.shell2004.com In response to the message "The page cannot be found" go back one page and select the "cached" option   DOMAIN NAME BATTLE REGARDING RoyalDutchShellplc.com:   ShellNews.net: Shell loses Royal Dutch Shell PLC Domain Name Battle: Friday 12 August 2005: 01:35am ET: Read the article and the WIPO panel decision THE TIMES (UK): City Diary: "AN ATTEMPT by Royal Dutch Shell to claim the website royaldutchshellplc.com from an 88-year-old veteran who uses it to publish material that criticises the oil giant has failed.": Tuesday August 16, 2005: Read the article   Email address to contact the website owner/publisher: alfred@shellnews.net

SHELL NEWSSTAND   Click here for Shell Breaking News (updated daily)   Click here for Shell Insider articles   News of interest to former/current employees of Shell in Malaysia: Shell Malaysia News   SHELL PR DISASTER IN CORRIB IR1SH PIPELINE COURT BATTLE For the file containing ALL ShellNews.net articles click here:  Complete file of ShellNews.net articles Royal Dutch Shell Plc dotcom domain name battle with Shell Scandalous Treatment of UK Holders of Royal Dutch Petroleum Shares Click here for latest on BRENT BRAVO PUBLIC INQUIRY AFTER SHELL ADMITS HEALTH & SAFETY BREACHES AND FINED RECORD £900,000 ($1.66 MILLION US DOLLARS) FOLLOWING TRAGIC DEATHS OF TWO EMPLOYEES   Click here for news on current litigation involving ROYAL DUTCH SHELL   Latest on Royal Dutch Shell legal actions against whistleblower Dr John Huong THE JUDGEMENT/ETHICS OF SHELL SMART TRIAL CONTROVERSIAL JUDGE, MR JUSTICE LADDIE, HAS BEEN CALLED INTO QUESTION BY HIS EXTRAORDINARY RESIGNATION   Speculation of a Shell/BP Merger?   Selection of memorable/shocking Shell stories from 2004/5 Admissions by Shell Click here for all SHELL/TOTAL BID/MERGER NEWS STORIES Click here to see our file of LEAKED SHELL INTERNAL EMAILS & DOCUMENTS Click here for Correspondence File up to November 2005 To see news files for each month, click on the appropriate month below: -   JANUARY 2004 SHELL NEWS FEBRUARY 2004 SHELL NEWS MARCH 2004 SHELL NEWS APRIL 2004 SHELL NEWS MAY 2004 SHELL NEWS JUNE 2004 SHELL NEWS JULY 2004 SHELL NEWS AUGUST 2004 SHELL NEWS SEPTEMBER 2004 SHELL NEWS OCTOBER 2004 SHELL NEWS NOVEMBER 2004 SHELL NEWS DECEMBER 2004 SHELL NEWS       JANUARY 05 SHELL NEWS FEBRUARY 05 SHELL NEWS MARCH 2005 SHELL NEWS APRIL 2005 SHELL NEWS MAY 2005 SHELL NEWS JUNE 2005 SHELL NEWS JULY 2005 SHELL NEWS AUGUST 2005  SHELL NEWS SEPTEMBER 2005 SHELL NEWS OCTOBER 2005 SHELL NEWS NOVEMBER 2005 SHELL NEWS DECEMBER 2005 SHELL NEWS   All subsequent Shell News stories can be found at http://royaldutchshellplc.com/     THIS WEBSITE WAS, FOR SEVERAL YEARS, THE SUBJECT OF A CONTINUING HIGH COURT INJUNCTION OBTAINED COLLECTIVELY BY EIGHT ROYAL DUTCH SHELL COMPANIES. SHELL EVENTUALLY SETTLED THE LITIGATION WITH A WHISTLEBLOWER, FORMER SHELL PRODUCTION GEOLOGIST, DR JOHN HUONG, WITHOUT ANY SURRENDER ON OUR PART Click here for information about Shell's injunction INCLUDING ACCESS TO THE INFORMATION PROHIBITED BY THE RELEVANT HIGH COURT ORDER ShellNews.net ShellNews.net (originally Shell2004.com) was set up at the beginning of 2004 to provide the world’s most comprehensive independently operated news and information portal focused on the Royal Dutch Shell Group. Although concerned about Shell management conduct, we did not anticipate that 2004 would turn into an "ANNUS HORRIBILIS" of nightmarish dimensions, with Shell’s reputation disappearing faster than its oil reserves. We now feature an extensive news section (see below) covering the various litigation in which Shell management is currently embroiled. It includes the US Class Action lawsuits relating to the reserves scandal and alleged human rights abuses; a claim by hundreds of former Shell employees that Shell management unlawfully misappropriated money from employees pension funds (a Judge has  ruled that the claim is valid) and Shell's own High Court action against a Shell whistleblower, Dr John Huong, alleging that he has damaged Shell's reputation by exposing Shell management misdeeds. This is of course a laughable proposition as Shell management has already destroyed Shell's reputation, which is now on a par with Enron and WorldCom in terms of global notoriety and odium. For an impartial expert assessment of Shell's reputational status following the reserves debacle click here Although we feature most Shell related news stories from around the globe including the good, the bad and the ugly - as a result of the various controversies surrounding Shell's activities, negative reports have vastly outweighed the stories which are positive. The following brief selection of news headlines speak for themselves: - 10 Jan 04 The Times: How Shell Blew a Hole in a 100-year reputation 19 Feb 04 Los Angeles Times: SEC Launches Formal Probe of Shell Oil 20 April 04 Minneapolis Star Tribune: Dutch/Shell Group exec was 'sick and tired' of lying 20 April 04 The Independent: Lies, cover-ups, fat cats and an oil giant in crisis 6 June 04 Mail on Sunday: Chairman Jeroen van der Veer in frame over Shell scandal – could lead to 20 years in jail 11 June 04 CNN: Shell admits blame in Nigeria: "Royal Dutch/Shell has taken responsibility for contributing to the fighting and corruption in oil-rich Nigeria". 25 June 04 London Evening Standard: Shamed “Shell chairman Sir Philip Watts has secured a pay-off worth more than £1m in cash plus stock options potentially worth £6m more” 25 June 04 London Evening Standard: Shell 'has lied for 10 years' 26 June 04 ChannelNewsAsia: Shell hit by new lawsuit in US over reserves scandal:  “fresh lawsuit names 27 directors and officers of Royal Dutch/Shell, and also their accounting and audit firms, PricewaterhouseCoopers International and KPMG International”

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LEGAL STUFF (NO NEED TO READ UNLESS YOU ARE A SHELL LAWYER, OR SOMEONE WITH A DEEP INTEREST IN SHELL, OR IN FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION OR COPYRIGHT ISSUES)

LEGAL STATEMENT BY THE ROYAL DUTCH SHELL GROUP REGARDING THIS WEBSITE: I, Alfred Donovan, would like to remind Shell lawyers that the "group" has placed on record its acknowledgement of my freedom to air my opinions about Shell on ShellNews.net. I did of course already have rights under various freedom of expression conventions and declarations but its nice to know that Shell, one of the multinational rulers of our planet, recognises this fact. The Royal Dutch Shell Group made the following unusual statement in a legal document in regards to this website: - "The... Group... have been aware of the site since the beginning and whilst they would not endorse or agree with many of the comments made by the Respondent on the website, they have taken the view that the Respondent is entitled to express his opinions and to use the Internet as a medium for doing so." This statement drafted by Shell lawyers and authorised by the "Group", amounts to tacit approval/acceptance/recognition of this website by Shell. It was submitted to The World Intellectual Property Organisation in May 2005 by Shell International Petroleum Company Limited on behalf of the Royal Dutch Shell Group in proceedings against me, Alfred Donovan, as the "Respondent" (owner) of three domain names, including www.royaldutchshellplc.com. It remains a mystery why Shell has taken an entirely different view regarding the fundamental human right to freedom of expression in respect of the former Shell geologist Dr John Huong, the well-known Shell whistle-blower, in relation to postings under his name elsewhere on this same website. Eight companies within the Royal Dutch Shell Group collectively obtained a High Court Injunction to silence him. The Injunction remains in force.

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